ISO Certificate logo is an important part of ISO Certification. This logo can be used by the iso certified company. Usually in letter head pad, challan, money receipt, visiting card and in email signature. It increases company images and distinguishes from others.
There is some guidelines to use this ISO logo in the documents. You can use only certification body and accreditation body logo in your documents. You cannot use Geneva based iso head office logo in your documents. You cannot use also any iso forum logo like IAF, AMAF, or any other forum logo in your documents.
There is also guidelines for sizes of logos. Usually certification body helps you to maintain those logos sizes. After issuing your certificate normally you can download those logos from their site or they can send you soft copy of those ISO logos for different sizes.
There is another important guideline is that you cannot continuously use those ISO logos in your documents or in your website if those are expired already. In another word you cannot use any certification or accreditation body logos when your iso certificates have expired already.
The ISO logo is the attestation of your company management that you are in practice of developing your processes folowing the ISO specific standard. If your certificate is expired that means you are out of control from Certification body who has issued certificate for your management for the specific standard.
Each certificate has an expiry date which are mentioned in the certificate. If that date exceeds then you have no right to use that logo any more. In that case you will have to remove that logo from your documents or from your website. It is illegal to use that logo in your company documents.
However, if you want to continuation of using ISO Logos in your documents then of course you will have to attend in recertification audit before ending expiry date. Usually two months before you should start the recertification process to avoid unexpected deletaion of ISO Logos from your documents.
How to Verify ISO Certificate is a very common question to many clients? Sometimes I get call from many offices in Bangladesh that how can I verify the ISO Certificate?
Everywhere there are two types of people one is bad and another one is good. In the business to save money this is very common incident to submit expired certificate or suspended certificate or fake certificate.
Bangladesh is not different. There are many fake businessmen or suppliers who submit such kind of certificate to the tenderer to get the supplying job or to get the contract job. That’s why from the offices sometimes somebody call me to verify the ISO Certificate.
This post will help those companies who are looking for checking the ISO Certificate instantly. Simply follow the following steps:
Go to the Certification Body’s or Accreditation Body’s website
Find the title or link to verify certificate or authenticate certificate
Write the certificate number in the box and push enter
Check the result
In Bangladesh there are few certification bodies who provide accredited certificate from UKAS, ANAB, JAZ-ANZ, CNN, ASCB, DAC, AIAC etc. If your certificates are accredited then simply go to those accreditation body’s site and follow the above 4 steps to verify ISO Certificate.
Usually the the accreditation body’s name is in the certificate along with certificate no and expiring date. If you do not find the accreditation body name from the above list then you may assume that the certificate is not accredited.
If your certificate is not accredited then you can go to the certification body’s web site to check your ISO Certificate. If you are not sure who is your accreditation body and who is your certification body then simply ask your vendor or company to know the AB and CB name along with their website.
EXAMPLE to verify certificate:
Suppose you want to check the certificate of a company MEC Logistics. So , you will have to go to the certification body(CB) or accreditation body’s(AB) web site suppose you want to check it from CB’s website. So, you will have to go IQS UK Ltd’s web site http://www.iqsuk.com and then find the title CERTIFICATION AUTHENTICITY simply click there and put the company name or certificate number and put enter. That’s all you will get the necessary information.
how to verify iso certificate
There is other way to verify your ISO Certificate. You can directly call your CB or AB office or you can send email too to verify your certificate.
Though ISO publishes all standards but there is no facility yet to check your ISO Certificate from Geneva based ISO office website www.iso.org. But we hope ISO will take necessary steps for company’s around the world to check ISO certificates from their website.
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