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The ISO 9001:2015 series of standards remains the worldwide reference for quality management for businesses and their customers. Our ISO expertise gives you coaching and technical support so your project moves forward promptly and efficiently to certification.

Key features

• Emphasis on customer focus, quality, leadership and management commitment
• Establishing business and quality assurance objectives and KPIs
• Process planning, control, monitoring and analysis
• Improved integration with other management systems

ISO 14001:2015 is the internationally accepted standard for an effective environmental management system. It helps businesses stay commercially successful without overlooking environmental responsibilities, growing sustainably while reducing the impact of that growth.

Benefits

• Better environmental management reduces waste and energy use
• Improved efficiency cuts the cost of running your business
• Demonstrated compliance expands business opportunities
• Prepare confidently for a changing business landscape

ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, enabling organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and illness and proactively improving OH&S performance.

Benefits

• Eliminates or minimizes risk to employees
• Contributes to a healthier, safer working environment
• Demonstrates confidence in the organization
• Reduces downtime from on-site accidents
• Ensures legislative and regulatory compliance
• Reduces the likelihood of prosecutions and fines
• Greater employee involvement in safety
• Increases stakeholder confidence
• Promotes new, effective procedures and processes
• Builds trust with customers and the supply chain

ISO 22000 covers the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a Food Safety Management System for organizations in food processing, manufacturing and distribution. Our food safety teams assess your processes against the standard and show how compliance, best practice and your brand standards reduce risk and improve efficiency, quality and profitability.

Benefits to your organization

• Maintenance and continuous improvement of the FSMS
• A framework for management commitment and supplier communication
• HACCP and other preventive plans that ensure food safety
• Commitment to customer satisfaction
• Stronger company reputation
• Alignment with other international standards
• Greater transparency in food safety responsibility

Benefits to your customers

• Assured safe food
• Better quality across the food industry
• Conformity of products and services
• Quality, safety and reliability

Developed by pharmaceutical industry stakeholders, ISO 15378:2017 adds Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements to ISO 9001 for manufacturers and suppliers of primary packaging for medicinal products, proving you consistently meet customer, regulatory and international requirements.

Your benefits at a glance

• Evidence of adherence to legal and contractual obligations
• Reduction and control of risks
• A clear statement of your competence
• Enhanced processes
• Minimized or removed contamination
• Assured implementation of GMP principles
• Improved quality capability
• Documented safety compliance that avoids costly liability
• A competitive edge with trusted third-party certification
• Guidance from experts in pharmaceutical packaging

ISO 13485 requires an organization to demonstrate its ability to supply medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements. It is the de facto standard for regulatory compliance in the medical device industry.

Benefits

• Safe, effective, quality-assured medical devices
• Greater confidence for end customers
• Loyal and new customers
• Global recognition
• Cost savings
• Improved product safety
• More effective risk management
• Better legal, regulatory and contractual compliance
• Proactive error detection and prevention
• Higher efficiency and profit margins
• Better monitoring of supply chain effectiveness

ISO 50001 sets the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system. It helps organizations use energy more efficiently, lower energy costs and reduce emissions through a structured, data-driven approach.

ISO 22301 specifies the requirements for a management system that protects against, reduces the likelihood of, and ensures your business recovers from disruptive incidents. Our team recognizes and prioritizes the risks to your business.

Benefits

• Identify and manage current and future threats
• Minimize the impact of incidents proactively
• Keep critical functions running during a crisis
• Reduce downtime and improve recovery time
• Demonstrate resilience to customers, suppliers and tenders

ISO 22716 gives guidelines for the production, control, storage and shipment of cosmetic products. Cosmetics GMP is a pillar of the European cosmetics regulation: every product sold in the European market must be produced to it, which concerns ingredient producers, assemblers, distributors and importers/exporters, European or not.

Why implement Cosmetics GMP?

• Validate your management system against new legal requirements
• Prepare for and ease inspections by health authorities
• Show stakeholders your processes conform to GMP
• Inspire consumer confidence
• Ensure access to your markets
• Improve operating efficiency and market appeal

SEDEX is the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data: a not-for-profit membership organization for information on labour standards, health and safety, environment and business ethics. Social compliance systems include SA 8000, SEDEX, SMETA and BSCI. SEDEX aims to ease the burden of multiple audits on suppliers and drive better ethical performance in global supply chains.

Benefits

• Better ethical and responsible business practices
• Greater efficiency; saves time and resources
• Improved supplier engagement and productivity
• Reduced reputational risk
• Competitive advantage
• More collaboration, less duplication

SMETA is the ethical trade audit carried out by the certifying body against best ethical practice requirements, built on four pillars.

The four pillars

• Labour standards
• Health & safety
• Environment
• Business practices

BRC Global Standards are the global market leader in retail safety. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety was the first standard benchmarked by GFSI, in 2000, and is now the largest GFSI manufacturing scheme, operating in more than 130 countries.

FSSC 22000 is an internationally accepted, GFSI-recognized certification scheme for the food supply chain, combining ISO 22000:2018, sector PRP standards and the FSSC Foundation's additional requirements. The scheme is updated regularly and is currently at Version 6.

With over ten years of food safety consulting experience, we provide expert guidance, coaching and mentoring, online and onsite training, templates and everything else required to achieve FSSC 22000 certification.