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Achieving & Maintaining Certification
A Business Management System is a set of policies, practices, procedures, and processes used in developing and deploying strategies, execution, and all associated management activity.
In order to maintain your certification, you will be required, as a minimum to have 1 annual surveillance to ensure you are still successfully implementing your system within the business.
After this 3 year cycle, you will then need to be re-certified. This will normally involve more time at the audit than the surveillance visit as the re-cert audit is more in depth. The stage 1 audit doesn’t need to be conducted again providing there has been no change to your documentation or upgrade to new standards.
The Main Standards We Work With
We work with all Standards across all industries and sizes of organisations, so we tailor our services to suit your business requirements and resourcing needs.
- ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems
- ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management Systems
- OHSAS 18001:2007 – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
- ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
- ISO 27001:2013 – Information Security Management Systems
- BS EN 1090- CE Marking for Structural Steel and Aluminium Fabricators
- SEDEX, GDPR, HACCP, Inspections
We can also offer help and advise on other standards, please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
A Business Management System is a set of policies, practices, procedures, and processes used in developing and deploying strategies, their execution, and all associated management activity.
Why should my business get certified?
The key reasons to become certified could be any one or more of the following:
A major customer requires you to have Certification – often Government bodies
Certification can help improve your marketing edge or boost the confidence of your customers
In some cases can reduce insurance premiums
Business Improvement
Tender requirement
What is involved in becoming certified?
Certification is a 3-year cycle starting with initial certification which consists of 2 Audits. Stage 1 audit is a documentation review where the auditor will ensure your system documentation conforms to the standard(s). The stage 2 audit is the Certification Audit where the auditor reviews the successful implementation of your system within your business. Once he is satisfied your business will be granted Certification.
In order to maintain your certification, you will be required, as a minimum to have 2 annual surveillances to ensure you are still successfully implementing your system within the business.
After this 3 year cycle, you will then need to be re-certified. This will consist of another stage 2 audit and 2 surveillances. The stage 1 audit doesn’t need to be conducted again providing there has been no change to your documentation or upgrade to new standards.
We’ve received feedback that some people find the certification process quite complicated. In order to help explain how it all works, if you’d like for us to explain how to align this process with your business, we can offer you a free no obligation one-hour phone consultation. Call us now on 01202 510461 or via the Request Further Info box.
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We will get to know you, your business, and what you want to achieve out of your systems and your certifications.
We take care of the whole process for you, answer all your questions and adjust our services to suit your resources and your individual business needs. We will be there for you to coach you through the preparation, the audits and ongoing.
We assist in selecting your Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) to ensure they have the appropriate knowledge of your industry and the work you do, are realistic and take a value-adding approach.
We understand that every business is unique- and we want this to be a meaningful and value-adding process for you.
