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WHAT IS ISO9001 CERTIFICATION
- ISO9001 certification has been in place for almost 20 years and is used by both companies and their customers and suppliers as a means of ensuring products and services meet specifications.
- The Standard provides a framework to manage your business and ensure a philosophy of continual improvement in all aspects of your business.
- It is externally assessed on an ongoing basis to ensure good business practices are maintained and improved.
- The principles of ISO9001 are: customer focus, leadership, involvement of people, mutually beneficial supplier relationships, factual approach to decision making, systems approach to management, process approach and continual improvement.
THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS
Step 1.
Contact us. We will come and see you or send out an application form. Complete the form and send it back.
Step 2.
An auditor will be assigned to you based on industry background and experience relevant to your business. They will make contact to discuss your needs and perhaps make a pre-assessment visit.
Step 3.
Once your procedures have been completed your auditor will complete a document review of your systems against the chosen standard. This gap analysis is intended to make sure the system you have written complies with the standard and covers all of your business processes.
Step 4.
An onsite audit will be completed. This will involve a review of actual implementation of your system. The time required depends on the size of the company, the number of sites and the degree of technical complexity.
Step 5.
Clearance of non-conformances raised at the audit. This may require an additional visit but it usually doesn't.
Step 6.
Once the audit process is complete, a decision on whether to certify you is made. You will then be offered certification, usually subject to accepting some standard terms and conditions.
Step 7.
At periods from 3 - 12 months thereafter (depending on performance and preference) you will be subject to review or surveillance audits and then a full reassessment at about the third anniversary of your certification.
TRANSFER TO VERIFICATION NZ LIMITED FROM ANOTHER CERTIFICATION AGENCY
- Firstly call us to discuss.
- Complete one of our application forms.
- Withdraw from your existing Certification Agency in writing.
- Advise us of your existing scope and audit history. Provide a copy of your current certificate and/or copies of your most recent audit reports.
- Verification New Zealand Ltd will continue with your existing audit schedule and issue you a new certificate.
FURTHER INFORMATION
On request we can provide detailed procedures for granting, maintaining, extending, reducing, suspending or withdrawing certification.
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