It sets out the requirements of a complete Quality Management System (QMS) that can be adapted to suit your organisation. By scrutinising and streamlining your processes against the QMS, your organisation will be far more able to meet your ambitions for sustainability and growth. With a strong 30 year history, ISO 9001 is widely seen as the most credible, robust and effective business improvement tool on the market.
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ISO 9001 will help you monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of products or services you offer so that are able to win more business.
- Win more Contracts
- Increase your Reputation and Status
- Increase your Profits
- Improve Relationships with your Suppliers
- Manage your People and Systems more Effectively
- Commit to Continuous Improvement
- Give your Business a Competitive Advantage
- Receive External Recognition of your Best Practice
Why Should you work with Centre for Assessment?
With almost 20 years' experience helping organisations like yours, Centre for Assessment is the ideal choise to complete your ISO 9001 audit and certification.
As a customer-focoused certification body, we can assure you of a friendlly, approachable and flexible service at all times. Centre for Assessment in UKAS-accredited, meaning that you will recieve a value-adding, rigorous and impartial ISO 9001 audit from us.
Our expert team of auditors are located across the UK, and our knowledgeable head office staff will support every stage of your journey towards achieving the Quality Standard.
Is ISO Right for you?
If you want to evaluate and improve the way you do business, an ISO 9001 audit with Centre for Assessment is the answer. The Standard is available to businesses and organisations of all shapes and sies. It has always been popular with large, complex organisations but the latest version (publiched in 2015) makes ISO 9001 certification an equally good option if you have a smaller businesses. ISO 9001 is often a requirement of supplier contracts and can centraly give you an advantage in tender applications.
Centre for Assessment will help you at every stage of your journey to achieving ISO 9001 certification, including a gap analysis, internal auditor traiding and professional, robust, UKAS-accredited audits.
Before your audit, we can provide you with an impartial Pre-Assessment to help you understand if you are ready for ISO 9001 certification. We can also provide integrated audits with additional Standards such as ISO 14001 (Environment), 27001 (Information Security) and 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety), to save you time and money.
Our extensive training portfolio will further support your organisation in meeting its goals. Get in touch with us to find out more about the full range of services we can offer to you.
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If your organisation is already certified to ISO 9001, you may want to consider transferring to Centre for Assessment. Centre for Assessment has lots of experience working with transfer clients, ensuring the required audits take place to avoid a gap in your certification. We do not charge a transfer fee so moving to us can be quick, simple and free.
You may consdier a transfer for many reasons. Perhaps you need a more robust audit from a UKAS-accredited certification body. You may need an improved level of service or a more affordable price. Whatever the reason, if you want to transfer to us, or do a cost comparison with your exisiting provider, we would be delighted to hear from you.
If you do transfer to us, we will ensure that the process is as smooth as possible. Simply contact us and a member of our Business Development team will be happy to help.
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1Inital Thoughts
Firstly, you need to establish that ISO 9001 is the right fit for your organisation and, if so, what the scope of certification will be. Centre for Assessment will be happy to help you make these decisions.
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2Preparation
You may choose to hire a consultant to help you design and implement your Quality Management System. Centre for Assessment does not offer a consultancy service but can provide you with a list of our independent associates. You could opt to use Centre for Assessment to provide a pre-assessment service. Alternatively, you may choose to move forward without seeking external support.
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3Apply
Submit an application form via our online form. If you don't have time to complete this, give us a call and a member of our Business Development team will help you.
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4Quotation
Review the proposal sent by Centre for Assessment and, if you are happy, sign and return the document to us.
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5Accept
Review the proposal sent by Centre for Assessment and, if you are happy, sign and return the document to us.
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6Make Arrangements
You will be allocated a specialist, experienced auditor who will contact you to introduce themselves, discuss arrangements and book dates for your audit.
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7Audit Stage One
The Stage One audit will involve a review of the documents relating to your Quality Management System. Stage One also explores your readiness to move on to Stage Two.
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8Audit Stage Two
The Stage Two audit looks at the effectiveness of your Management System, ensuring it is
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9Verification
Once the two stages are complete and any findings addressed, your auditor will
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10Certification
Following a technical review by a decision-maker, you will be issued a certificate that is valid for three years. You can advertise the fact that you are certified to the Standard and use the ISO 9001 logo on your website etc..
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11Annual Audit
At 12 and 24 months, review audits will be completed to ensure you are still compliant with ISO 9001. These will be arranged directly with your auditor.
