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ISO 9001- Quality Management Standard
ISO 9001 is the most sought-after and internationally acclaimed management system standard.
Internally, the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard helps to improve operational and management efficiency and effectiveness.
ISO 9001 is not only a Quality Assurance Standard or a degree of excellence; it is a way to ensure that customer requirements are met with consistency.
Attaining the ISO 9001 certification helps to drive the success of your business by boosting customer satisfaction, marketability, and profit potential.
The certification makes your business more valuable. It lets others know that your organization is committed to continually improving systems to better ensure customer satisfaction. Other organizations are more likely to engage with ISO 9001 certified companies. Moreover, ISO 9001 Quality Assurance Certification demonstrates credibility.
Why Achieve the ISO 9001 Certification for Your Business?
More than 1 million organizations have implemented ISO 9001 in more than 75 countries.
While there were earlier standards for quality management systems, the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, released its 9001 standard in 1987 for the first time. The standard has been revised several times in 1994, 2000, 2008, and the current version in 2015.
An internationally and diverse selection committee developed the framework of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standard to help all types of organizations (including commercial businesses, governments, non-profit organizations, etc.) adopt “good management practices.”
Best practices that the ISO 9001 Standard promotes are:
- A policy statement (or mission statement)
- Objectives and plans
- Competent human resources
- A written management system (or policies and procedures) to confirm that the management system is approved, available, and up to date
- A detailed understanding of customer requirements
- A way of determining customer satisfaction
- Effective supplier management
- Data collection and analysis
- Management reviews
- Risk based thinking
- Strategic management
- Management of documents and records
- Internal auditing
- Control of non-conformances and consideration of the corrective actions etc.
How to Get Started with ISO 9001? Our ISO Certification Consultants Can Help!
Our role is to assist you and lead your business on the path to successful ISO certification. Our qualified ISO 9001 Certification Consultants check your Quality Management System (QMS) and help you to improve it strengthening the weaknesses through ongoing consultation and support.
The standard is designed to be flexible and is hence achievable by any organization regardless of its size, scale, or revenue. Our consultants will help you transition to the most appropriate QMS for your business, saving both time and resources. We minimize the hassles in achieving compliance of your QMS with our services like gap analysis, readiness reviews, and internal audits.
The ISO 14001 Requirements
ISO 14001: 2015 needs the organizations to adopt a set of practices and procedures that together constitute a comprehensive EMS. These are the key requirements underlined by the standard which organizations need to fulfill for implementing their EMS.
1. Context of the Organization: Firstly, the organizations need to understand their context with respect to the standard. They shall recognize all the internal factors as well as external issues that either influence the purpose of the EMS or affect the objectives to be achieved by the EMS. The factors also include the expectations or needs of the different interested bodies of the organization. Understanding the context helps in establishing the structure of the EMS and implementing it.
2. Leadership and Commitment: This requirement highlights the significant role of the top management members in the implementation and maintenance of the EMS. Their participation ensures that the EMS gets a definite direction in your organization and employees become accountable for its effectiveness. They will define an environmental policy, set of objectives, and communicate specific responsibilities to the employees.
3. Planning– This section highlights the need to evaluate the organization’s current environmental framework and potential risks to determine the objectives of the EMS. This requirement also needs you to analyze the key environmental interactions of your organization as well as legal environmental obligations.
4. Support: This requirement implies your organization should be prepared with all the resources necessary for implementing, maintaining and improving the EMS. The resources also include communication, awareness, employee competence and documented information.
5. Operation: This section calls for organizations to determine, implement and improve the processes and practices that are required for meeting the purpose of EMS. It also includes deciding the actions for responding to emergency situations.
6. Performance Evaluation: Fulfilling this requirement shall ensure that your EMS performs efficiently and helps your organization progress towards the proposed objectives. To evaluate the performance of the EMS, your organization should monitor the processes to identify if any
of its aspects needs improvement.
7. Improvement: The EMS shall be also reviewed periodically to identify nonconformity issues and any other weaknesses so that you can take corrective actions to resolve them. Constantly reviewing the conformity of EMS ensures that it is improved in the long run.
The interest of both big businesses and SMEs in implementing the ISO 14001 environmental management system is increasing day by day. However, you do not have to just jump into the decision to investing in it. First learn about its benefits and understand how you can reap environmental as well as commercial advantages out of it.
1. Improved Environmental Performance: With the ISO 14001 certification, your business is able to control the environmental impacts of its activities or reduce them to minimum. It also enables you to reduce resource uses by following practices like recycling or reuse and contribute towards sustainability.
2. Absolute Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Getting ISO 14001 certified enables your organization to recognize your compliance obligations that come from environmental legislation and industry regulations and meet them. By ensuring legal compliance, your business stays away from any breaches, litigation cases or penalties.
3. Reduction in Operational Costs: By reducing the wastes released from your business operations and using resources efficiently including energy, you can save up a lot of costs.
4. Competitive Advantage and Newer Opportunities: ISO 14001, being an international certification for EMS benchmarks your business’s environmental performance and make it stand out in the competition. This opens up a door for new opportunities as organizations look for suppliers or partners that have such credentials in terms of promoting environmental sustainability.
5. Improved Relationship with Stakeholders: The certification demonstrates that your business is proactive in preventing environmental impacts and enhancing sustainability, which leaves a positive impression of your business on the stakeholders and strengthens the relationship with
them.
Getting started with the ISO 14001 certification procedure might seem complex to you but our expert ISO 14001 consultants will make it easier for you with trouble-free steps.
1. Consultation: In the first step, we would discuss with you the details of the ISO 14001 requirements and provide consultation to help you understand their relevance in your business and processes. Our consultants would then help you planning the next steps to meet the
criteria for successful certification within a decided timeframe.
2. Document Your EMS: Our consultants would help you determine the scope and objectives of your EMS. Following that, they would evaluate your existing processes to determine how they will interact with the EMS. Subsequently, they would help you to prepare a document of the
processes and EMS, as they required by the standard. The document establishes how your employees should execute the processes to adhere to the standard’s requirements.
3. Implementation of EMS: Once the documentation is complete, you need to provide training to the employees to ensure the EMS is practically put into place. Training is necessary to ensure the system is efficiently integrated throughout your organization and there is consistency in the role of employees.
4. Internal Audit: Our team also has expert auditors who will analyze your processes and EMS to find out any inconsistencies and nonconformities. They would then provide recommendations to correct or fix those identified issues to ensure your business is fully compliant and
certification ready.
5. Certification: You need to apply for certification to a certification body. They would perform external audit and get your business certified after affirming the compliance of your EMS. Our consultants will help to maintain your certification in the long run by periodically following up and performing surveillance audits.
Why Hire the ISO 9001 Certification Consultants from Ciggic Certification Services?
Lowest cost –
We deliver a lean, custom fit ISO compliant management system, saving significantly on the often overlooked, but usually most expensive part of ISO compliance- the implementation stage.
Speed –
Everybody knows how lengthy an ISO certification process is! It is difficult to be motivated and focused if certification takes too long. Don’t worry! We can help you gain certification within 90 days, or often in less time than that!
Resources to obtain and maintain certification –
ISO compliance does not need to cost a lot to maintain! We minimize the need for internal resources with a lean and compliant ISO quality consulting approach.
Ongoing support –
Ciggic Certification Services can help you manage ongoing compliance on your own, or you can team up with us. Our personalized ISO certification services include monitoring and internal audits as well. Our experts can monitor your Quality Management System to ensure consistency, improvement, and compliance. We can also help in making it compliant with future updates to the ISO standard a cinch.
Looking to implement the ISO 9001 Quality Management System? Do not know how to start? Speak to our expert ISO consultants!