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INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION

HAPTA Compliance International Certification

HAPTA Compliance specialises in helping organisations understand the ‘Certification’ process, and the process from wishing to gaining your accreditation (Certification) approval. The information below is a brief understanding of the different certification that HAPTA Staff can help with:

ISO 90001 – Quality management Systems
ISO 14001 – Environmental management systems
ISO 21001 – Education Management Systems
ISO 27001 – Information Security Management Systems
ISO 22000 – Food Safety Management Systems
ISO 31000 – Risk management Systems
ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety management systems

Firstly there are a few things to think about i.e.

1. Why is the certification needed/wanted?
2. What buy-in has been given from the ‘Senior Management’ team?
For any ISO certification to be approved (and work) it needs to be driven from the top. The following information has been designed to give a brief overview of ISO Certification:

This is a decision that must come from the top. What the Standard itself refers to as ‘top management’ – the person (or people) in charge, the decision-makers. Don’t overlook or skip the importance of this step.

Getting ISO is a major project, so someone must have/take responsibility for the authority to manage it internally. Allocate resources to the project: you’ll need to decide whether to use a consultant, or do it yourself.

This means you systematically assess the status of your current system against what it needs to be for your ISO certification. You should have some kind of a quality system in place already (even if you think you don’t, unless you’re a completely new business), but you probably won’t be meeting all requirements of the ISO Standard at this point.

Your plan should cover the following – what needs to be completed, who will complete each section and when will it be completed by. This is when you will need to see if a Experienced HAPTA Consultant is required.

Work through the approved plan created and bring your system up to the required level for the certification applying for. Simple put; this is where you fill the gaps from the Gap Analysis, revising, adding or improving where you need to. It means identifying your main processes and seeing if they’re currently meeting requirements (or not). It means making all the improvements necessary to meet the requirements of the Standard. Throughout this step, you’ll use the PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) continuous improvement cycle to do it.

Conduct an internal audit to see how well you’re doing, normally most businesses will find some issues. (If you don’t, you aren’t reviewing or auditing properly!) Fix the issues you find, using your corrective action process (one of the requirements) to do this.

This can also be a very important step, understanding your auditors background and experience can save you a lot of headaches in the future. Ask to see certification paperwork and maybe even a Company and Auditor Bio.

At this, the external auditor/s provided by your certifier will audit your quality system against all of the specific standard requirements of certification being applied for.

Once the results of the external audit are verified by the certifier, you get the certification certificate and celebrate! Assuming you are successful of course, you can now get that coveted certificate from your certifier. The certificate will arrive normally between 2 to 4 weeks, after the audit. Its exact format varies according to your certifier (type of logo, etc ). Your certifier enters you onto the official world-wide register of certified organisations.

The following information above is a brief overview of the ‘Certification process’

Contact HAPTA Compliance Today for a FREE No Obligation Quote or even if you just want to have a quick chat about your Certification Requirements.