ISO certification Process, Benefits and Document Required

ISO Certification Introduction:

The concept of ISO has been originated from the union of two the organizations being firstly the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations(ISO), and secondly the United Nations Standard of the Coordinating Committee(UNSCC).

Wherein, In 1946 over more than 25 countries have met at the “Institute of Civil Engineers” in London in order to create a new international organization in which the main objective was to “facilitate the international coordination of industrial standards”, and to achieve this goal a new organization ISO came into picture and began its operations in February 1947. The term ISO has been derived from the Greek ISOS which means ‘equal’. The term “ISO” stands for -International Organization for Standardization. Today the ISO has grown to the delegates where it is representing over 150 countries and has also published over more than 16,000 international standards. They meet on a regular basis to further develop new and existing management standards.

Process of ISO Certification:-

Filing of ISO application

The applicant need do prepare an application comprised of main objects of the services or products for which he is seeking the certification along with the mandatory documents

Review by Auditor

After submission of the documents, the ISO auditor will review all the documents related to products, services and various policies & procedures being forwarded and followed in the organization.

Communication of Feedback

After the ISO auditor review, the auditor communicates the existing gaps in documents submitted if any, and the applicant now has to submit the plan to eliminate gaps.

Certification Audit

Upon submission of rectifications, the ISO auditor will audit the changes made by you and will re examine the same in order to identify the drawbacks in your systems and the procedures to the desired quality management system.
After which the required changes are done in the organization, the ISO auditor does the final auditing. The auditor will check whether all the feedbacks have been eliminated or are in accordance to ISO quality standards. If the auditor is satisfied, then they will prepare the final audit report and forward it to the registrar of ISO.

Issuance of ISO Certification

After all the formalities are being addressed and all the findings are put in the ISO audit report, if registrar is satisfied he will grant theISO Certification .