ISO REGISTRATION

Below are some main advantages of getting ISO certificate:

• INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY:

  ISO Certification has a vital role in helping the organization to build credibility in overseas business.

• CUSTOMER SATISFACTION:

  ISO standards are planned to make organizations to serve their customers in a better way that would simultaneously improve customers’ satisfaction.

• GOVERNMENT TENDERS:

  ISO Certification is quite crucial to bid for Government Tenders.

• BUSINESS EFFICIENCY:

  Functional efficiency of an organization is improved by obtaining ISO Certification. SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) and work instructions can be advanced with the help of ISO Certification Agency. Implementation of ISO in an organization manages its resources efficiently.

• PRODUCT QUALITY:

  By getting ISO Certification, the product quality matches up the international standards, it will reduce the chances of product order rejections that may occur due to the flawed products.

• MARKETABILITY:

  ISO Certification improves the business credibility, and it also helps in marketing the business directly.

The documents required for ISO Certificate registration depends upon the type of ISO Certification you are getting for your organization. Some of the mandatory documents and records have been mentioned bellow:

• SCOPE OF THE QMS:

  In the scope of the QMS Mandatory records such as Monitoring and measuring equipment calibration records and Non Mandatory documents such as Procedure for addressing risks and opportunities are needed.

• QMS POLICY AND OBJECTIVES:

  QMS Policy and objectives Mandatory records are about design and development outputs review and non mandatory documents are Procedure for design and development.

• CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION:

  In the Criteria for evaluation mandatory Records about design and development inputs and Non mandatory documents are sale procedure.

• SELECTION OF SUPPLIERS:

  Mandatory records of suppliers are Records of design and development controls and outputs.

Fee for ISO certification in India differ from organization to organization. The ISO certification authorities compute the fee for ISO certification by considering the below mentioned different parameters:

1. Size of an organization

2. Number of employees

3. Processes of Organization

4. Implemented ISO standard

5. Level of risk associated with the nature of services of the organization

6. The complexity of the management system

7. The number of working shifts

There are various types of ISO certification available in India which you can select as per your business and the goods and services provided by you. Some are listed below:

1. ISO 9001:2008- Quality Management System

2. OHSAS 18001 – Occupational Health & Safety Management System

3. ISO 37001 – Anti-bribery management systems

4. ISO 31000 – Risk Management

5. ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System

6. ISO 10002 – Compliant Management System

7. ISO 14001:2015 – Environment Management System

8. ISO ITAR for manufacturing, sales and distribution of technology

9. ISO 26000 – Social Responsibility

10. ISO 28000 – Security Management

11. ISO 22008 – Food Safety Management

12. SA 8000 – Social accountability

13. EnMS EN 16001 ISO 50001 – Energy Management

14. SO/IEC 17025 – Testing and calibration laboratories

15. SO 13485 – Medical devices

16. ISO 639 – Language codes

17. ISO 4217 – Currency codes

18. ISO 3166 – Country codes

19. ISO 8601 – Date and time format

20. ISO 20121 – Sustainable events

21. SO/IEC 27001 – Information security management

The process for obtaining ISO certification in India is as below:

• MAKE AN APPLICATION

  Once the applicant has selected the ISO standard and ISO certification body, he need to make an application in a prescribed form (depends on the ISO registrar). The application should contain the rights and obligations of organization and certification body parties and includes liability issues, confidentiality, and access rights.

• DOCUMENTS REVIEW BY REGISTRAR

  The ISO certification body will review all the quality manuals and documents related to various policies and procedures being followed by the organization. Review of existing works will help the ISO registrar to identify the possible gaps against the requirements lay down in the ISO standards.

• DETERMINATION OF PRE-ASSESSMENT NEEDS

  The Pre-assessment is an initial review of the Quality Management System in an organization to identify any significant weakness or omissions in the system and registrar will provide the organization with a chance to correct the deficiencies before the regular registration assessment is conducted.

• PREPARE AN ACTION PLAN

  After the ISO registrar notified the existing gaps in the organization, the applicant or entrepreneur has to prepare an action plan to eliminate these gaps. The action plan should contain the list of all the necessary tasks to be performed to meet the Quality Management System.
  
  Note: The entrepreneur may need to give training to employees to work efficiently to achieve quality management system. Aware all the employees in the organization about the ISO standards regarding efficiency and quality standards.

• ONSITE INSPECTION

  The ISO registrar will perform a physical onsite inspection to audit the changes made in the organization.
  
  During the inspection, if the registrar will finds anything that does not meet with the requirements of the ISO standards, registrar determines the intensity and issue findings. Audit findings are usually called as nonconformities and come under one of two categories depending on severity.
  
  A Minor Non-conformance: It deals with minor violation of procedures or minor failures of the system in meeting the ISO standards.
  
  A Major Non-conformance: It involve the issues where the nonconforming products are likely to reach the customers or where there is a breakdown in the quality system that results in an incompetent system in meeting the requirements of the standards.

• FINAL AUDIT

  The registration process will proceed only after all outstanding nonconformities are closed and verified by the Registrar. This normally involves a re-audit of the affected areas and the associated costs.
  
  

  Note: Minor nonconformities needs a disciplinary action plan and that will be closed at the first surveillance.

• GET ISO CERTIFICATE

  After all non-conformities are addressed, and all the findings are updated in the ISO audit report, the registrar will issue the ISO certification.

• SURVEILLANCE AUDITS

  Surveillance audit will be conducted primarily from time to time to ensure that the organization is maintaining ISO quality standards.

The timeline for obtaining ISO certification depends upon the size of an organization. Therefore, the time varies from an organization to organization. It normally takes about 6-8 months for the small and micro-organization. It normally takes about 8-12 months for a medium enterprise. And it takes normally 12-15 months for large size organization.