Steps to ISO Certification
How to get ISO Certification
Like other prospects it is your asking and that is, what are the steps to ISO Certification. Please check the below 7 steps to ISO Certification:
ISO Certification for University
ISO Certification for university post will help you to know how an ISO standard i.e 9001 Standard can help you to develop your management system throughout the university.
Before going to know the benefits of the standard you should know about the standard 9001 a little bit. ISO 9001 Standard is a standard like other standards published by ISO head office in Geneva. It is most popular and widely used standard among others. The main cause of so popularity of this standard is its applicability. Only this is the standard which is applicable to any size, and any kind of organization.
By adopting this 9001:2015 standard you can get guidelines to control all of the processes or departments inside your institution. No other standard has so extensive radius of applicability like this qms standard. In the university you can control your teaching method for the teachers and guidelines for students also. You can evaluate both the teachers teaching quality and students learning capability.
How teachers are teaching the students. What the students are saying about your teachers. All guidelines can be get from this standard.
Customer’s satisfaction is one of the major principles of ISO 9001 Standard. As a university authority your customers are students. So, how much your Students are satisfied on your teaching method and on your management system and how they are doing in exam that should be your focus point in your teaching policy.
ISO 9001:2015 will guide you how can you measure the students’ satisfaction and how can you develop your management system. Not only that, for maintaining quality management system in your institute you should know what your interested parties are saying about your existing management system.
Now come to your office management. How your management is running. Is there any problem inside your management. How they are behaving with the students. Are they doing their jobs properly? All these things should be monitored according to ISO Quality standard guidelines.
Documents and record keeping are the major and important task of a university. How can you control your documents and records according to the international standard that guidelines are also found from this standard.
Continual development is another major principles of ISO 9001 Standard. How students are doing in their exam or in semister exam? How can you help them to do better in next exam and how can you develop their learning power that things should be practiced if you adopt this standard.
There are so many private universities in Bangladesh. You will have to analyze various data about your present status comparing with other universities. How can you overcome your competitors, How can you increase your ranking status, How your teachers and management staffs can help you to achieve that goal that are guided in this standard.
In various way ISO 9001 Standard can help you to establish all the guidelines for your institutions and later how you will implement those guidelines and finally how those are working that can be measured according to the ISO 9001:2015 guidelines.
AAS has expert auditor’s panel who have been working in different sectors for long time in Bangladesh. They can help you to establishing and implementing ISO Standard’s guideline in your university. When you will claim that ISO guidelines have been implemented in your institute then CB auditor will perform audit before certification.
AAS has been working with the UK based ISO certification body for long time. So, if you are thinking to develop your university management system, then adopting ISO 9001 Standard can be the right decision for you. To get iso certification process and cost for the university you may visit this page to contact.
Certificate Check
Certificate check is important task for buyers and tenderer to check genuineness of ISO Certificate. Because there may be fake ISO Certificate in the industry. So, it is your responsibility to check the certificate before acceptance. Now most of the CB has website entry of his issued certificates. Usually during issue time the certification body put entry of certificate’s details in their website including the issue date and expiry date.
To check our issued certificate you may visit this link .
ISO 9001:2015 Requirement
ISO 9001:2015 Documents
ISO 9001:2015 Standard is a latest version of Quality management system Standard. Tough there is no mandatory documentation guideline but in the clause no 7.5.1 it is told about documentation requirements of ISO 9001:2015 as below:
- documented information required by this International standard
- documented information determined by the organization as being necessary for the effectiveness of the quality management system
In the above first sub clause of 7.5.1 it is telling that documented information is required by this QMS standard but it is not specifying what are the requirements.
In the second sub clause it is telling documented information is requirement for an organization . The organization will determine what are necessary for effective implementation of quality management system.
According to the second sub clause we can summarize that the documented information will be prepared by the organization by follow the following things:
a) size of organization and its type of activities, processes, products and services;
b) complexity of processes and their interactions,
c) competence of persons.
All the documented information what are the part of ISO 9001:2015 should be controlled following the 7.5 clause. Now lets know what are said in the sub clause a of 7.5:
- scope of QMS
- Process operation related documentation
- Quality Policy
- Quality Objectives
In the sub clause of b of 7.5 it is told about the documents are required to communicate information or instruction for successful operation of the processes. According to the clause 4.4 though ISO 9001:2015 does not specify the requirements but following documents may add value in the organization:
Organization charts
Process maps, process flow charts and/or process descriptions
Procedures
Work and/or test instructions
Specifications
Documents containing internal communications
Production schedules
Approved supplier lists
Test and inspection plans
Quality plans
Quality manuals
Strategic plans
Forms
45001 Certification
Health Safety Images
ISO 45001 Certification is also known as health safety management system certification. Before it was named as OHSAS 18001 standard and it was British standard. Now it is known as ISO 45001 standard. It is published by ISO Geneva based office in 2018.
OHSAS 18001 is still using by some companies who took it before publishing 45001 standard in March 2018. So, though some organization still using18001 certificate but after 2021 it will be expired. After 11th March 2021 it will not be accepted by any stake holder or by your customer. So, it is wise decision now to adopt 45001 standard instead 18001 standard.
Worldwide workers health is in great risk. Specially who work in 3D (Dirty, Dangerous and Difficult) industries their health safety issue is in dangerous position. Decreasing humanity from the society, too much profit minded attitude among the factory owners group, negligence and corruption of respecting agents of government are the major causes of this health risk of workers.
ISO 45001:2018 can be worked as a particle of light for the workers in 3D(Dirty, Difficult and Dangerous) industries. Specially for 45001 ISO auditors can contribute a lot to protect workers health in those industries who are showing negligence to protect workers health in 3D industries.
ISO 45001 consultant can help those industries who are interested to implement this standard in their factories or work places. Specially they can help to reduce air pollution, sound pollution by providing guidelines for the factory management.
In many places where PPE and safety shoes are necessary but due to negligence of factory management that are not provided. So, workers may lose toe or leg from accident though it can be avoided by a small investment.
In some cases workers do not wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) due to lack of awareness about health safety. In this regard awareness training on 45001 can be provided to the workers to reduce the risk from the workers. ISO 45001 consultant can provide this training.
iso 45001 standard
ISO 45001:2018 provides guideline for health safety management system. It minimizes the accident, injury and ill health in the work place. ISO 45001:2018 is applicable to any organization that wishes to establish, implement and maintain an OH&S management system in his organization.
Like other standards requirements it needs to establish some documents like OH&S Policy, Objectives, Procedure, emergency preparedness procedure etc. Continual improvement, achievement of OH & S objectives, fulfillment of legal requirements are checked before certification on this standard.
Any type and any size of organisation can adopt this standard. Specially where worker’s health is in risky position they need this standard very much. Like construction site, port, chemical industry, Dyeing factory, Ceiling fan industry, Pipe manufacturers, Press and printing industries etc.
There are some requirements for this standard. If any organisation follow these requirements and implement those terms then accident and injury will be reduced significantly.
There are 10 clauses, many sub and sub sub clauses in this standard. It is not mandatory to implement all those clauses in an organization which are not applicable for him. However required clauses should be incorporated to claim the conformity of this standard in OH & S management system in the organization.
This standard can be taken in any organization along with other management system standards like 9001 and 14001 standards. As IMS or integrated management system standard this 45001 standard can be adopted by any organisation for easy documentation, application and maintenance of multiple standards simultaneously.
AAS provides ISO 45001:2018 Certification in Bangladesh from the UK based certification body which can add extra value in your processes. Certificates are accredited by ASCB/IAS. Without certification AAS has good link with free lancing 45001 consultants in Bangladesh and abroad who can help you to implement ISO 45001 guidelines in your organization. To get quote for 45001 certification process from AAS you may contact this page .