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Achieving a Compliant Environmant
Compliance is an essential aspect of all business practices there is no area of your business that is untouched by the requirement to comply with legislation or regulation.
We exist for the sole purpose of making that requirement as simple to comply with as possible.
Understanding at all levels is the primary method we employ to ensure that compliance is not something that happens on one day per year. By assisting business to develop robust management systems across multiple subject matters we in turn help businesses to succeed.
ALIGNMENT TO REQUIRMENT
Technical Standards
We have knowledge of many technical standards across many sectors, the reason for this is that a large number of standards adopt the framework of ISO9001 as their foundation from that foundation they then add the "Suplimental clauses"
Examples of this include:
IATF16949
AS9100D
ATEX BS EN ISO 80079
We do not provide advise on the technical aspects of realising product to these standards, we translate the requirements of the standards and help you to implement a system that will meet with the requirements. Often we manage the system as a whole and attend the certification and surveillance audits.
More about ISO Standards
Below we have a more in depth explaination of the popular ISO standards
ISO 9001 is an internationally recognized standard for Quality management systems (QMS). It sets the criteria for a systematic approach to managing an organization's processes to ensure the consistent delivery of products or services that meet customer requirements and regulatory standards.
Key principles and features of ISO 9001:
1. Customer Focus: ISO 9001 places a strong emphasis on understanding customer needs and expectations. Organizations are required to identify and address customer requirements, enhancing customer satisfaction.
2. Process Approach: The standard encourages organizations to view their operations as interconnected processes that contribute to achieving quality objectives. A process-based approach helps identify and manage interactions between different activities.
3. Continual Improvement: ISO 9001 promotes a culture of continuous improvement. Organizations must regularly monitor and measure their processes, products, and services to identify areas for enhancement and take action to improve them.
4. Engagement of People: Involving and empowering employees at all levels of the organization is essential for effective quality management. Employee competence, awareness, and involvement contribute to better outcomes.
5. Evidence-Based Decision Making: Decisions within the organization should be based on factual data and analysis, rather than intuition or assumptions.
6. Relationship Management: ISO 9001 recognizes the importance of managing relationships with suppliers and other external stakeholders to enhance the effectiveness of the QMS.
ISO 9001 requirements cover various aspects of quality management, including:
1. Quality Policy: Organizations must establish a quality policy that reflects their commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.
2. Planning: This involves setting quality objectives, planning processes to achieve them, and identifying the necessary resources.
3. Support: Organizations need to ensure that employees have the necessary competence, resources, and infrastructure to perform their tasks effectively.
4. Operation: This phase includes the execution of planned processes, product/service realization, and monitoring of processes to ensure they meet quality requirements.
5. Performance Evaluation: Organizations must monitor, measure, and analyze their QMS's performance to identify areas for improvement.
6. Improvement: ISO 9001 requires organizations to take corrective and preventive actions to address non-conformities and continuously improve their QMS.
Benefits of ISO 9001 implementation:
1. Enhanced Quality: ISO 9001 helps organizations maintain consistent quality, leading to improved customer satisfaction and loyalty.
2. Increased Efficiency: Adopting a process-based approach can streamline operations, reduce errors, and eliminate wasteful practices.
3. Compliance: ISO 9001 certification demonstrates an organization's commitment to meeting international quality standards and regulatory requirements.
4. Competitive Advantage: Certification can provide a competitive edge in the marketplace, as it signals to customers that the organization is dedicated to quality and continuous improvement.
5. Better Decision Making: Data-driven decision making and a focus on evidence allow organizations to make more informed choices to drive performance improvements.
ISO 9001 is a flexible standard applicable to organizations of all sizes and industries. It promotes a culture of quality and continual improvement, contributing to the overall success and sustainability of businesses and organizations worldwide.
ISO 45001 is an international standard for Occupational health and safety (OH&S) management systems. It provides a framework for organizations to manage and improve their health and safety performance, ensuring the safety and well-being of their employees and other stakeholders.
Key elements and features of ISO 45001:
1. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment: ISO 45001 requires organizations to identify workplace hazards and assess the associated risks to employee health and safety. This process helps in implementing appropriate control measures to prevent accidents and injuries.
2. Legal Compliance: The standard emphasizes the need for organizations to identify and understand relevant occupational health and safety legal requirements and ensure compliance with them.
3. Objectives and Targets: Organizations set specific health and safety objectives and targets, aligning them with the overall OH&S policy. These objectives serve as the basis for measuring performance and continuous improvement.
4. Resources and Competence: ISO 45001 mandates that organizations provide the necessary resources, including competent personnel, to implement, maintain, and improve the OH&S management system effectively.
5. Operational Controls: The standard requires the establishment of operational controls to manage OH&S risks effectively. This involves implementing procedures, safe work practices, emergency response plans, and training programs.
6. Consultation and Participation: ISO 45001 emphasizes involving workers and other relevant stakeholders in the OH&S management system, encouraging active participation and feedback to improve safety measures.
7. Performance Evaluation: Organizations must monitor and measure their OH&S performance regularly, using indicators and metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the management system.
8. Management Review: Senior management conducts periodic reviews of the OH&S management system to assess its suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. This helps identify areas for improvement and strategic decision-making.
Benefits of ISO 45001 implementation:
1. Improved Safety Performance: ISO 45001 helps organizations create a safer working environment by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing controls, leading to a reduction in accidents and injuries.
2. Legal Compliance: Adherence to the standard ensures that organizations are aware of and comply with relevant OH&S legal requirements, reducing the risk of penalties and legal issues.
3. Employee Engagement: Involving employees in the OH&S management system fosters a culture of safety, leading to increased employee morale, satisfaction, and productivity.
4. Cost Reduction: Implementing effective health and safety measures can lead to cost savings by reducing workplace incidents, workers' compensation claims, and associated downtime.
5. Reputation and Stakeholder Confidence: ISO 45001 certification enhances an organization's reputation as a responsible and safety-conscious entity, instilling confidence in employees, customers, suppliers, and investors.
ISO 45001 is compatible with other management system standards, such as ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management). Integration with these standards allows organizations to create a more comprehensive and unified management system approach, optimizing resources and improving overall performance.
ISO 27001 is an international standard for Information security management systems (ISMS). It provides a systematic and comprehensive approach for organizations to manage the security of their sensitive information assets, including financial data, intellectual property, employee records, and customer information.
Key elements and features of ISO 27001:
1. Risk Assessment and Management: ISO 27001 requires organizations to identify and assess the risks to their information assets. Based on the risk assessment, organizations implement controls to manage and mitigate these risks effectively.
2. Information Security Policy: Organizations must develop and document an information security policy that outlines their commitment to information security and sets the direction for their ISMS.
3. Information Security Objectives and Planning: The standard requires organizations to set specific information security objectives and develop plans to achieve them. These objectives should be aligned with the overall business goals.
4. Asset Management: ISO 27001 emphasizes the need for organizations to identify, classify, and manage their information assets appropriately. This includes understanding the value of assets and implementing suitable security measures.
5. Access Control: Organizations must control access to their information assets, ensuring that only authorized individuals have the right to access specific information.
6. Cryptography: The standard addresses the use of encryption and cryptographic techniques to protect sensitive information during storage and transmission.
7. Incident Management: ISO 27001 mandates that organizations establish an incident management process to respond to information security incidents effectively.
8. Business Continuity Management: The standard requires organizations to have a business continuity plan to ensure the continuity of critical business processes in the event of disruptions or disasters.
9. Compliance: Organizations must comply with relevant legal, regulatory, contractual, and other information security requirements.
Benefits of ISO 27001 implementation:
1. Enhanced Information Security: ISO 27001 helps organizations identify and address information security risks, leading to improved protection of sensitive data and information assets.
2. Compliance: Implementing ISO 27001 ensures that organizations meet legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements related to information security.
3. Customer Confidence: ISO 27001 certification demonstrates an organization's commitment to safeguarding customer information, enhancing customer trust and confidence.
4. Competitive Advantage: Being ISO 27001 certified can be a differentiator in the marketplace, especially when dealing with clients who prioritize information security.
5. Improved Internal Processes: The standard's systematic approach to information security management can lead to improved internal processes and better overall organizational efficiency.
6. Incident Response: Having a well-defined incident management process helps organizations respond promptly and effectively to information security incidents, reducing potential damage.
ISO 27001 is applicable to organizations of all sizes and industries, as information security is crucial in the digital age. It provides a structured approach to managing information security risks and enables organizations to adapt to evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
ISO 14001 is an internationally recognised standard for Environmental management systems (EMS).
The ISO 14000 series focuses on various aspects of environmental management, and ISO 14001 is the most prominent standard in the series.
The primary goal of ISO 14001 is to provide organizations with a framework to establish and maintain an effective EMS. An EMS is a set of processes and practices that help organizations manage their environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner.
By implementing ISO 14001, organizations can demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection, sustainability, and continual improvement.
Key principles and features of ISO 14001:
1. Environmental Policy: Organizations are required to define and document their environmental policy, which should reflect the commitment to environmental performance and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
2. Planning: This involves identifying environmental aspects and impacts of an organization's activities, products, and services. Additionally, organizations set environmental objectives and targets and develop action plans to achieve them.
3. Implementation: Organizations establish procedures and processes to meet the objectives and targets set in the planning phase. This may include training employees, allocating resources, and integrating environmental considerations into daily operations.
4. Checking and Corrective Actions: Regular monitoring, measurement, and evaluation of environmental performance take place to ensure compliance and identify opportunities for improvement. Corrective actions are taken to address non-conformances and prevent recurrence.
5. Management Review: Senior management regularly reviews the EMS to ensure its suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. This review allows for adjustments and improvements as necessary.
Benefits of ISO 14001 implementation:
1. Enhanced Environmental Performance: ISO 14001 helps organizations systematically manage their environmental impacts, leading to improved environmental performance and reduced resource consumption.
2. Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Compliance with environmental laws and regulations is crucial for avoiding fines, penalties, and reputational damage. ISO 14001 assists in ensuring organizations meet legal requirements.
3. Cost Savings: Improved resource efficiency often leads to cost savings in areas such as energy consumption, waste management, and raw material usage.
4. Competitive Advantage: ISO 14001 certification can be a differentiator in the marketplace, demonstrating an organization's commitment to environmental responsibility, which may attract environmentally conscious customers and partners.
5. Stakeholder Confidence: ISO 14001 certification can enhance stakeholders' confidence, including customers, investors, and regulatory bodies, in an organization's environmental management practices.
ISO 14001 is adaptable and applicable to organizations of all sizes and industries. Its flexible nature allows organizations to tailor the EMS to their specific environmental impacts and business processes while ensuring continuous improvement in their environmental performance.
Why should you be Certified / Accredited?
Whilst not having certification may not stop you from being able to tender for contracts or achieve approved supplier status, it will almost certainly mean that the process will take longer, and you will have more work to do during the process. ISO certification will bridge the gap for your customers as they will recognise that you have external 3rd party audits conducted to provided assurance that your systems and processes are suitable for and will meet their requirements. Gain Control! You may wish to create more structure within your business
All businesses have a structure, or they simply wouldn't function. The structure that exists is often one that has been formatted through organic growth. The issue with organic growth is often that which worked in the past doesn't work as well as it could now. ISO will give you the structure you need to continually improve all aspects of your business through internal audit and planned continual improvement. Improve! You may wish to create or induce a mechanism to facilitate improvement The desire to improve is evident in the vast majority of business, that desire will often manifest itself in the desire to produce more or the desire to sell more. Both are linked to improvement and can be measured. Where most businesses need to improve is the unseen areas of customer satisfaction and exceeding expectation, this is where a quality management system gives the degree of control and analysis to see what often remains out of plain view. A quality system will empower you to make evidence-based decisions.
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Implementation of managemrnt systems
ISO Standards for Quality, Environment, Health & Safety, Information Security & General Management Systems
Let's look at what you are doing right!
With many years commercial experience in the implementation of process control and project management, we believe there are few better qualified to provide you with a workable solution to your needs. You have a customer that requires you to have one or more of the ISO Standards, or you just want to make things better in your business. Either way you're in the right place to achieve that. Businesses need control to grow, in most cases business grows organically and brings with it systems that have remained static and have not grown or adapted with the business. It's these static systems that prevent growth. In a busy environment it's easy to see things that make no sense, the reason for this is the people performing the task have always done it that way, therefore there is no reason why they would challenge the method.
In the first instance we look at your existing systems, no business develops without them. You will have some things that you do very well, and these will need no change whatsoever, in other areas there are probably opportunities for improvement. When speaking to business owners it becomes apparent is that the idea of ISO9001 scares most because of the auditing element. A fundamental of improving business it to evaluate what you do with the aim of achieving continual improvement. The primary fault that exists within business is the inability to identify areas for improvement
If you are entering into the ISO arena for the first time or if you have an existing system that has become unruly or hard to manage the one thing you can be assured of is that the end result, we provide will be a clear concise manageable system that suits your needs perfectly. In the words of ISO themselves ISO9001 is intended to complement the existing systems and strategic direction of the organisation.
Your next step is to make contact, only by speaking to you and establishing what is you require will enable us to provide the solution you are looking for. Nothing is standard at DBasc everything we provide is tailored to our customers' needs and expectations.
Certification Bodies
Fully supported certification service:
1. You will require a "Management System" that meets the requirements of the standard you are wishing to be certified to.
2. UKAS Certification Bodies only certify "Management Systems" they do not provide the system to be audited as they are not allowed to provide consultation, this enables them to maintain independence
3. Certification can be provided by any Certification Body that follows the ISO requirements for the auditing of ISO Management systems (ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015) whether UKAS or not UKAS. See this link from ISO themselves https://www.iso.org/certification.html
4. We can assist you with all aspects of the certification / accreditation process from start to finish. Turn key ISO Solutions in quick time.
UK National Certification (UNC) Non UKAS = less costly
UNC provide certification to a number of ISO Standards:
ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems
ISO 22301 Business Continuity
We Also Provide Systems with Certification By UKAS Accredited Certification Bodies
If you have a requirement to be certified by a UKAS Accredited Certification Body, we will prepare your system in readiness for the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits and will organise a UKAS Accredited Certification Body to come and conduct your audit.
UNC Certification is offered free of charge with our systems.
System Repair
If you've Failed an Audit or want to get back on track:
We can salvage your system, by reviewing your Certification Bodies non-conformity report we will get you back on track fast. Taking a realistic approach to system management, we know that in some cases it is difficult to get a system back on track. This could be for several reasons; your experienced staff member has left, changes to the standard have been misinterpreted, you have been scraping through for a number of years but now your auditor has had enough and determined that action is required. It's no joke when you Certification Body withholds certification for several minors or a major non-conformity.
We understand that you need help to get back on track and can provide that help in a non-judgmental way. We review your non-conformity report and identify the exact parts of the system that need urgent attention, we will create an action plan and start the process of bringing your system back to a conforming position. The only thing we don't know is how long the process will take until we have reviewed the situation fully. We can either provide straight forward advise on what to do or be the resource that salvages the system. When you are back on track, we can provide training to bring you or staff up to speed on what needs to be done or if you prefer to give you a proposal on managing your system for you.
Integrated Managment Systems IMS PAS99
Integrating multiple management systems allows you to manage more than one standard without running multiple systems, one framework to manage all your certified systems. Have you got two or more management systems in place?
Simplified and cost-effective ISO management.
Typical integrated management systems may include ISO 9001 Quality Management, ISO 14001 Environmental Management, OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Management, ISO 27001 Information Security Management, ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management.
Our integrated systems allow you to centralise all your certification needs in one place. The use of an integrated system doesn't mean that you will have one certificate you will still retain individual certifications for all of the standards you are registered to. We can support you and manage your system ensuring all your requirements are met. Support packages include the ZEBSOFT management system Time is always an issue but, in some instances, although we have the best of intentions the date of the annual certification audit looms and nothing has been done. Why are we familiar with this scenario? Because we are auditors / assessors, and we see the result of poor system management on a regular basis. Your business runs well but you don't have the time to make the system work for you resulting in an often-bad audit. This benefits nobody, your ISO system should be a tool for running your business, that brings benefits. We provide you with a system management and full third-party auditing of your system that will highlight and define where your business needs to act to gain improvement. We will look after all your documents and reporting requirements and if required be present at your audit ease the process of re-certification. You will provide the systems and knowledge of your processes to bring the benefits of continual improvement to the forefront of your business.