ISO Consultancy Services
ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems
The ISO 9001:2015 series of standards remains the worldwide reference for quality management for businesses and their customers.
The key features of ISO 9001:2015 standards are:
- Emphasize customer focus, quality, leadership & management commitment
- Establishing business and quality assurance objectives and KPIs
- Highlighting the importance of process planning, control, monitoring, and analysis
- Improving integration with other management systems
Our ISO expertise will provide our clients with coaching and technical support to ensure that their changeover project proceeds forward promptly and efficiently to obtain the Certificate in Quality Management Systems.
ISO 14001:2015 – Environment Management Systems
ISO 14001:2015 is an internationally accepted standard that outlines how to put an effective environmental management system in place in an organization. It is designed to help businesses remain commercially successful without overlooking environmental responsibilities and impacts. It also helps to grow sustainability while reducing the environmental impact of the growth.
The Benefits of ISO 14001:2015 are:
- Better environmental management reduces waste and energy use.
- Improve efficiency to cut the cost of running your business.
- Demonstrates compliance to expand your business opportunity.
- Prepare for the changing business landscape confidently.
ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system and guides its implementation to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and illness and proactively improving their OH&S performance.
Benefits of ISO 45001 certification to your organization:
- Eliminates or minimizes risk to employees.
- Contributes to a healthier and safer working environment.
- Demonstrates confidence in the organization.
- Reduces downtime risks through on-site accidents.
- Ensures legislative and regulatory compliance.
- Reduces the likelihood of prosecutions and fines.
- Greater involvement in environmental safety from employees.
- Increases stakeholder confidence with an internationally acknowledged standard.
- Promotes new effective procedures and processes.
- Established trust and credibility with customers and the supply chain.
- Established trust and credibility with customers and the supply chain.
ISO 22000:2018 – Food Safety Management Systems
The ISO 2200 standard is concerned with the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of a Food Safety Management System. ISO 22000 is used by those involved in food processing, manufacturing, and distribution. Food safety has become a major responsibility of all organizations involved in the food chain.
Echelon Consultancy’s food safety teams are not only concerned with assessing the business processes against food safety standards, but we also understand how compliance (along with best practices and your brand standards) can help reduce risk and improve efficiency, economy, quality, and profitability of operations.
Benefits of ISO 22000 certification to your organization:
- Maintenance and continuous improvement of the FSMS.
- Provides a framework for management commitment and communication with suppliers and customers.
- Engagement of HACCP and other preventive plans that ensure food safety.
- Commitment to customer satisfaction.
- Improves the reputation of the company.
- Alignment with other internationally acknowledged standards.
- Increases transparency in food safety responsibility.
Benefits of ISO 22000 certification to your customers:
- Ensured safe food
- Better quality in the food industry
- Conformity of products and services.
- Ensures quality, safety, and reliability.
ISO 15378:2017 – Primary Packaging Materials for Medicinal Products
ISO 15378:2017 was developed by pharmaceutical industry stakeholders to offer a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for manufacturers and suppliers of primary packaging material for medicinal products.
This document, in addition to ISO 9001, specifies Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements applicable to primary packaging materials for a quality management system in which an organization must demonstrate its ability to provide primary packaging materials for medicinal products that consistently meet customer requirements, including regulatory requirements and International Standards.
Your Benefits at A Glance
- Evidence of adherence to legal requirements and contractual obligations
- Reduction and control of risks.
- Clear statement of the organization’s competence.
- Enhancement in processes.
- Minimization or removal of instances of contamination.
- Assures implementation of GMP Principals.
- Improves quality capability
- Minimise risk by achieving documented compliance with safety standards, thereby avoiding costly liability.
- Gain a competitive edge by demonstrating the ISO 15378 compliance of your organization to all stakeholders with a trusted third-party certification partner.
- Profit from an expert partnership with the guidance of our highly skilled experts in pharmaceutical packaging services.
SO 13485:2016 – Medical Devices Quality Management Systems
ISO 13485 is a quality management system standard that requires an organization to demonstrate its ability to supply Medical Devices and related services that consistently meet customer criteria as well as regulatory obligations. The ISO 13485 standard is the de facto standard for regulatory compliance in the medical device industry.
Benefits of implementing ISO 13485 Quality Certification for both Clients and the Organizations:
- Quality ensured medical devices.
- Safe and effective medical devices.
- Lower scepticism and increased confidence for the end customer.
- Boost loyal and potential customers.
- Global Recognition.
- Cost Savings.
- Improved product safety.
- More Effective Risk Management.
- Improved legal and regulatory or contractual requirements compliance.
- Proactive error detection and prevention.
- Increased likelihood of meeting Customer Requirements.
- Increased Efficiency and Profit Margins.
- More Effective Risk Management.
- Assistance in monitoring supply chain effectiveness.
ISO 22301 – Business Continuity Management System Certification
ISO 22301 specifies the requirements for a management system to protect against, reduce the likelihood of, and ensure your business recovers from disruptive incidents.
Benefits of ISO 22301 BCMSC:
- Identify and manage current and future threats to your business.
- Take a proactive approach to minimize the impact of incidents.
- Keep critical functions up and running during times of crisis.
- Minimize downtime during incidents and improve recovery time.
- Demonstrate resilience to customers, suppliers, and tender requests.
With the international standard for business continuity, our team at Echelon Consultancy recognizes and prioritizes the risks to our clients’ businesses.
ISO 22301 – Business Continuity Management System Certification
ISO 22301 specifies the requirements for a management system to protect against, reduce the likelihood of, and ensure your business recovers from disruptive incidents.
Benefits of ISO 22301 BCMSC:
- Identify and manage current and future threats to your business.
- Take a proactive approach to minimize the impact of incidents.
- Keep critical functions up and running during times of crisis.
- Minimize downtime during incidents and improve recovery time.
- Demonstrate resilience to customers, suppliers, and tender requests.
With the international standard for business continuity, our team at Echelon Consultancy recognizes and prioritizes the risks to our clients’ businesses.
ISO 22716:2007: COSMETICS — GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES (GMP)
SO 22716:2007 gives guidelines for the production, control, storage, and shipment of cosmetic products. The guidelines in ISO 22716:2007 do not apply to research and development activities and the distribution of finished products.
Cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is one of the New European Regulations for Cosmetics pillars. This regulation sets very high requirements to ensure consumers’ safety. Amongst these new legal requirements, all cosmetics products circulating in the European Market will have to be produced according to the Cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practices described by the ISO 22716 standard. All participants in the cosmetics products chain, European and non-European, are concerned. Ingredients producers, product final assemblers, distributors, and importers/exporters, all actors are involved and new responsibilities have been defined.
What are the Cosmetics GMP and ISO 22716 certifications?
Cosmetics GMP is a set of hands-on advice, operational rules, and organizational guidelines especially focused on human, technical and administrative factors affecting product quality. The objective of the GMP is to define the activities which lead to the final product corresponding to the expected specifications, and therefore product safety.
ISO 22716 is the standard describing the GMP. It has been written in collaboration with cosmetics industry professionals and promotes best-in-class methods.
Why implement Cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practices?
- Validate the conformity of your Management System with the new legal requirements.
- Prepare and facilitate legal inspections by Health Authorities.
- Demonstrate to your stakeholders that your processes conform with GMP.
- Inspire consumers’ confidence.
- Ensure access to your markets.
- Enhance operating efficiency and competitive market appeal.
SEDEX – Supplier Ethical Data Exchange
Social Compliance or Best Ethical Practices in any organization is dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains. Social compliance is the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data, which is a not-for-profit membership organization. It is a secure online platform for sharing and viewing information on labour standards, health, safety, the environment, and business ethics.
The social compliance systems include the requirements of SA 8000, SEDEX, SMETA, BSCI, etc. related to social compliances.
SEDEX has two aims
- To ease the burden on suppliers facing multiple audits, questionnaires, and certifications.
- To drive improvements in the ethical performance of global supply chains.
Benefits of Social compliance or Best Ethical Practices Certification
- Drives improvements in ethical and responsible business practices.
- Increases efficiency.
- Saves time and resources.
- Improves supplier engagement.
- Boosts productivity.
- Reduces reputational risk.
- Helps gain competitive advantage.
- Helps drive collaboration and reduce duplication.
SMETA – SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit
The social compliance systems include the requirements of SA 8000, SEDEX, SMETA, BSCI, etc. related to social compliances.
For Best Ethical Practices requirements SMETA (SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit) is done by the certifying body.
The basic Best Ethical Practices requirements are as below:
- Labour Standards
- Health & Safety
- Environment
- Business Practices
BRC – British Retail Consortium
BRC Global Standards’ reputation has established the organization as the global market leader in retail safety – and continues to keep it in this position. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety was the first Standard benchmarked by the GFSI in 2000.
Since then, continued growth means it is now the largest GFSI manufacturing scheme, operating in more than 130 countries. This breadth underscores the importance of upholding scrupulous compliance activity across all its operations – a goal to which BRC is completely committed.
FSSC 22000 – Foundation Food Safety System Certification
FSSC 22000 is an Internationally accepted Certification scheme for the Food Industry supply chain. It is a blending of ISO 22000:2018, PRP Standard, and Additional Requirements of the FSSC Foundation.
FSSC 22000 is the advanced version of the existing schemes of all GFSI-recognized schemes. It is a highly standardized scheme which is catering the real requirements for food hygiene.
On 1st April 2021, FSSC has given a new version of the FSSC scheme as FSSC 22000 version 5.1. The main areas where the FSSC 22000 V5.1 emphasis are as follows:
Provide more Strength to the CB licensing process and the integrity program Insertion of the BOS list in the new version and implementation
Echelon Consultancy specializes in assisting any organization in becoming FSSC 22000 compliant or obtaining FSSC 22000 certification. We have over ten years of expertise in Food Safety consulting and can provide our clients with expert guidance and know-how, coaching and mentoring, online and onsite training, templates, and everything else that is required to achieve FSSC 22000 Certification.