Management System Certification
SIGMA CERTIFICATION PTY. LTD provides services for people and businesses Optimizing on our team of industry experts, sector specific knowledge and with the rudimentary understanding of our clients' requirements, We offer customized solutions for ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, OHSAS 18001, ISO 22000, ISO 27001, ISO 13485, CE Mark, HACCP, HALAL, BIFMA, GMP. to maximize functionality of processes and add value to client's business. Our competent and experienced Management System Consultants (in the domain of Quality, Environment, Occupational Health and Safety, Food safety, IT etc.) guide our client organizations how to implement Management Systems as per various National & International Standards ensuring Quality improvement, Customer Satisfaction, Business Transformation and Continual Improvement.
ISO 9001:2015 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. Manage quality whatever the size of your business with a standard that's recognized the world over. With ISO 9001 Quality Management you can:
- Save money
- Increase profit
- Win more business
- Satisfy more customers
What is ISO 9001?
What are the benefits of ISO 9001 Quality Management?
An ISO 9001 quality management system will help you to continually monitor and manage quality across all operations. As the world's most widely recognized quality management standard, it outlines ways to achieve, as well as benchmark, consistent performance and service.
What are the benefits of ISO 9001 Quality Management?
- Allows you to become a more consistent competitor in your marketplace
- Better quality management helps you meet customer needs
- More efficient ways of working will save time, money and resources
- Improved operational performance will cut errors and increase profits
- Motivate and engage staff with more efficient internal processes
- Win more high value customers with better customer service
- Broaden business opportunities by demonstrating compliance
ISO 14001:2015 sets out the criteria for an environmental management system and can be certified to. It does not state requirements for environmental performance, but maps out a framework that a company or organization can follow to set up an effective environmental management system. It can be used by any organization regardless of its activity or sector. Using ISO 14001:2015 can provide assurance to company management and employees as well as external stakeholders that environmental impact is being measured and improved.
The benefits of using ISO 14001:2015 can include:
- Reduced cost of waste management
- Savings in consumption of energy and materials
- Lower distribution costs
- Improved corporate image among regulators, customers and the public
ISO 14001:2015 and SMEs
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) also benefit from ISO 14001:2015. However, implementing an environmental management system in SMEs can be challenging. The publication ISO 14001, Environmental Management Systems - An easy to use checklist for small business, will help SMEs to achieve the benefits of implementing an environmental management system based on ISO 14001.
OHSAS 18001 (officially 'BS OHSAS 18001:2007') is an internationally-applied British Standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It exists to help all kinds of organizations put in place demonstrably sound occupational health and safety performance. It is a widely recognized and popular occupational health and safety management system.
Benefits - How Can OHSAS Help?
The OHSAS specification is applicable to any organization that wishes to:
- Establish an OH&S management system to eliminate or minimize risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to OH&S risks associated with its activities
- Assure itself of its conformance with its stated OH&S policy
- Demonstrate such conformance to others
- Implement, maintain and continually improve an OH&S management system
- Make a self-determination and declaration of conformance with this OHSAS specification
- Seek certification/registration of its OH&S management system by an external organization
- Essentially, OHSAS helps in a variety of respects... it helps: minimize risk to employees/etc, improve an existing OH&S management system, demonstrate diligence, gain assurance etc. The benefits can be substantial
Key areas that will be assessed by OHSAS certification
- Management systems in place
- Planning and risk assessment
- Staff training and awareness
- Communication of safety management systems
- Response to emergency situations
- Monitoring and continual improvement
The ISO 22000 family of International Standards addresses food safety management. The consequences of unsafe food can be serious and ISO's food safety management standards help organizations identify and control food safety hazards. As many of today's food products repeatedly cross national boundaries, International Standards are needed to ensure the safety of the global food supply chain.
ISO 22000:2005 sets out the requirements for a food safety management system and can be certified to. It maps out what an organization needs to do to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe. It can be used by any organization regardless of its size or position in the food chain.
ISO 22000:2005 sets out the requirements for a food safety management system and can be certified to. It maps out what an organization needs to do to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe. It can be used by any organization regardless of its size or position in the food chain.
The purpose of ISO 22000 is to provide a practical approach to ensure the reduction and elimination of food safety risks as a means to protect consumers. ISO 22000 is intended to help organizations:
- Embed and improve the internal processes needed to provide consistently safe food
- Provide confidence to the organization and the management team that the organization's practices and procedures are in place and that they are effective and robust
- Provide confidence to customers and other stakeholders (through the ISO 22000 certification process) that the organization has the ability to control food safety hazards and provide safe products
- Provide a means of continual improvement that ensures that the food safety management system is reviewed and updated so that all activities related to food safety are continually optimized and effective
- Ensure adequate control at all stages of the food supply chain to prevent the introduction of food safety hazards
The ISO 27000 family of standards helps organizations keep information assets secure. Using this family of standards will help your organization manage the security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to you by third parties. ISO/IEC 27001 is the best-known standard in the family providing requirements for an information security management system (ISMS).
What is an ISMS?
An ISMS is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes people, processes and IT systems by applying a risk management process. It can help small, medium and large businesses in any sector keep information assets secure.
What is an ISMS?
An ISMS is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes people, processes and IT systems by applying a risk management process. It can help small, medium and large businesses in any sector keep information assets secure.
Benefits of ISO 27001
- EmKeeps confidential information secure
- Provides customers and stakeholders with confidence in how you manage risk
- Allows for secure exchange of information
- Allows you to ensure you are meeting your legal obligations
- Helps you to comply with other regulations (e.g. SOX)
- Provide you with a competitive advantage
- Enhanced customer satisfaction that improves client retention
- Consistency in the delivery of your service or product
- Manages and minimises risk exposure
- Builds a culture of security
- Protects the company, assets, shareholders and directors
ISO 13485:2003 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer requirements and regulatory requirements applicable to medical devices and related services. Most global medical device market regulators require manufacturers to implement a quality management system (QMS) as part of their product registration effort. In most countries, ISO 13485 certification is the preferred or required method of meeting QMS requirements.
ISO 13485 benefits
- Access to markets that recognize or require the certification including Canada and Europe
- Reduce operational costs by highlighting process deficiencies and improving efficiency
- Increase customer satisfaction by consistently delivering quality products and systematically addressing complaints
- Proven commitment to quality through an internationally recognized standard
- Adds transparency to the way complaints, surveillance or product recalls are handled
SA 8000 is an auditable certification standard that encourages organizations to develop, maintain, and apply socially acceptable practices in the workplace. It was developed in 1997 by Social Accountability International (SAI), formerly the Council on Economic Priorities, by an advisory board consisting of trade unions, NGOs, civil society organizations and companies. The SA 8000 streamlines the complexities of navigating industry and corporate codes to create a common language and standard for measuring social compliance. As it can be applied worldwide to any company in any industry, it is an extremely useful tool in measuring, comparing, and verifying social accountability in the workplace.
SA 8000 certification is a management systems standard, modeled on ISO standards. It measures the performance of companies in eight areas important to social accountability in the workplace: child labour, forced labour, health and safety, free association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, working hours and compensation.
SA 8000 certification is a management systems standard, modeled on ISO standards. It measures the performance of companies in eight areas important to social accountability in the workplace: child labour, forced labour, health and safety, free association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, working hours and compensation.
What are the benefits?
- Achieve best practice in ethical employment, trading and operations
- Engage and motivate your employees with improved morale
- Introduce greater transparency to the way you run your business
- Maintain existing business and attract new customers and investors
- Gain recognition as an socially accountable organization
HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) is an internationally accepted technique for preventing microbiological, chemical and physical contamination along the food supply chain. The HACCP technique does this by identifying the risks, establishing critical control points, setting critical limits, and ensuring control measures are validated, verified and monitored before implementation.
The effective implementation of HACCP will enhance the ability of companies to: protect and enhance brands and private labels, promote consumer confidence and conform to regulatory and market requirements.
The effective implementation of HACCP will enhance the ability of companies to: protect and enhance brands and private labels, promote consumer confidence and conform to regulatory and market requirements.
Who can use HACCP?
All businesses involved in the food supply chain from producers to retailers can use HACCP. Enterprises include, but are not restricted to, those linked with:
- Meat & Meat Product
- Spices & Condiments
- Cereals
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Dairy Products
- Fish & Fishery Product
- Nuts & Nut Product
- Bakery & Confectionary
- Hotels
Benefits of HACCP
HACCP provides businesses with a cost effective system for control of food safety, from ingredients right through to production, storage and distribution to sale and service of the final consumer. The preventive approach of HACCP not only improves food safety management but also complements other quality management systems. The main benefits of HACCP are:
- Saves your business money in the long run
- Avoids you poisoning your customers
- Food safety standards increase
- Ensures you are compliant with the law
- Food quality standards increase
- Organises your process to produce safe food
- Organises your staff promoting teamwork and efficiency
- Due diligence defence in court
Although the main goal of HACCP is food protection, there are other benefits acquired through HACCP implementation, such as:
- Increase customer and consumer confidence
- Maintain or increase market access
- Improve control of production process
- Reduce costs through reduction of product losses and rework
- Increase focus and ownership of food safety
- Business liability protection
- Improve product quality and consistency
- Simplify inspections primarily because of the recordkeeping and documentation
- Alignment with other management systems (ISO 22000)