What is ISO 9001?

ISO 9001 is the international standard for quality management system (QMS). It specifies concrete, practical requirements, derived from the best quality assurance and sound management practices, and enable organizations to develop and implement their quality management system to meet certain minimum levels of consistent performance, giving your customers added confidence.

This international standard for quality management system published by the International Organization for Standardization is used in over 110 countries by suppliers and customers for contractual transactions, and ISO 9001 standards are now regarded as the universal language for quality management.

Benefits of ISO 9001

ISO 9001 drives best practice and helps organizations:

• ✔Improve efficiency and profitability of your business.
• ✔Drive organization towards same direction.
• ✔Commitment to process, product and service quality and consistency.
• ✔Acquire and retain customer and increase customer satisfaction.
• ✔Increase employee morale.
• ✔Reduce conflict at work.
• ✔Increase internal communication.

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What is ISO 14001?

The ISO 14001 is the international standard for environmental management system (EMS). It aims to help organizations minimize or reduce the environmental footprint of their business and to decrease the pollution and waste an organization produced that may affect the environment and assists with compliance to applicable environmental laws and regulations. Increasingly stringent legislations have led to the need for organizations to work to an internationally recognized standard that helps to identify and control environmental impact of an organization's activities, products or services, and to improve its environment performance. Crucially, ISO 14001 provides a systematic approach to setting environmental objectives and targets, providing a framework to achieve these goals.

ISO 14001 certification provides an organization's customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders with evidence of the operations commitment to environment protection.

Benefits of ISO 14001

ISO 14001 drives protection of environment and help organizations:

• ✔Reduce costs and increase profit through reduced waste and energy, reuse and recycle through 3R concept.
• ✔Optimize use of resources (electrical, water and materials).
• ✔Reduce costs as a result of potential lower insurance rates.
• ✔Increase competitiveness.
• ✔Environmentally responsible and commitment to environment protection.
• ✔Boost company’s public image.
• ✔Cost saving through improved efficiency and productivity.

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What is OHSAS 18001?

OHSAS 18001 is the standard against which organizations are assessed on their Occupational Health and Safety performance. As with other standards, it is based around the setting of objectives and targets and the monitoring of the business occupational health and safety performance against this standard.

The aim of OHSAS 18001 is to assist organizations establish and maintain a system of management to improve the health and safety of employees at the workplaces. In response to customer demand for an occupational health and safety management system that can be assessed objectively, certified credibly, and recognized internationally, the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) are developed for use by all types of organizations and industries.

OHSAS 18001 is recognized globally as the international management system standard that enables an organization to control its OH&S risks and improve its performance. It has been developed to be compatible with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. This allows organizations to integrate quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems throughout its operations.

Benefits of OHSAS 18001

ISO 18001 help organizations improve health and safety at work place to:

• ✔Results in better planned and ongoing management of health and safety risks.
• ✔Reduce costs associated with accidents and illness.
• ✔Improve operational performance through policies and procedures.
• ✔Increase access to new customers and business partners through an improved corporate image.
• ✔Increase control of regulatory issues.
• ✔Reduce risk of citations and penalties.
• ✔Reduce work-related accidents and illness.
• ✔Potentially reduce insurance costs.

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What is ISO 50001?

ISO 50001 is an international standard developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) which provides organisations with the requirements for energy management systems. ISO estimates that the standard could influence up to 60% of the world's energy use.

Benefits of ISO 50001

By achieving certification to Energy Management standard, your organisation will accrue some of the numerous benefits of ISO 50001, including;

• ✔Reduced greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions and carbon footprint. Compliance with this standard will allow you to meet current or future voluntary and/or mandatory energy efficiency targets or GHG emission reduction legislation.
• ✔Increase energy cost savings for the organisation by reducing energy costs via a structured approach to managing your energy consumption.
• ✔Increased knowledge of equipment efficiencies. By integrating your existing management systems you can align your Energy Management System (EnMS) with existing management systems for additional organisational benefits.
• ✔Informed decision-making processes from system design through to operation
• ✔Increased energy awareness among staff members at all levels.
• ✔Structured approach to the Right First Time methodologies
• ✔Improved corporate image and credibility with all stakeholders and customer
• ✔Enhanced security of energy supply as you will have identified your energy risk exposure in areas within the organisation and commenced processes to reduce them
• ✔Improved operational efficiencies and maintenance practices

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What is ISO 22000?

ISO 22000 is a generic food safety management system. It defines a set of general food safety requirements that apply to all organizations in the food chain. If your organization is part of the food chain, ISO 22000 wants you to establish a food safety management system (FSMS). It then wants you to use the system to ensure that food products do not cause adverse human health effects.

ISO 22000 certification demonstrates a commitment to food safety throughout the supply chain in order to deliver safe food products to the final consumer. The standard is operated within the framework of a structured management system and incorporated into the overall management activities of the organization, providing efficient integration and seamless compatibility with quality management systems such as ISO 9001.

We work with a variety of organizations to provide assessment services in food chain sectors, including:

• ✔Poultry farmers
• ✔Food processing facilities
• ✔Food manufacturers
• ✔Food Warehousings
• ✔Food Transporters
• ✔Food retail outlets
• ✔Restaurants

Benefits of ISO 22000

ISO 22000 assist organizations to identify and control food safety hazards in:

• ✔Commitment of ensuring food safety.
• ✔Increase confidence from stakeholders, customers and consumers.
• ✔Increase profits.
• ✔Ability to show control of food hazards.
• ✔Continual improvement of food safety management system.
• ✔Clear communication across the entire supply chain.
• ✔Traceability – identification of an organization’s impact on food safety within the supply chain.
• ✔Cost reduction due to more efficient system.
• ✔
Legal compliance.

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What is ISO 27001?

ISO 27001 is the most widely recognized security standard in the world and defines the specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS) for protection of Organization, Business and Commercial (related to Customer, Supplier, Employee, Shareholder and other interested parties), both in hard copy and soft copy. An ISMS is a system that allows an organization to monitor and control their security, minimizing risk and ensuring that security continues to fulfill the operations, customers and legal requirements.

Originally produced in 1995 by the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry, the British Standard BS 7799 provided a code of practice for the implementation of security controls to protect information within both commercial organizations and Government departments. In 2002, Part 2 of the standard was revised to bring the format in line with existing management standards such as ISO 9001, including use of the standard Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) process model as used in ISO 9001. In 2005 it became the international standard ISO 27001.

Benefits of ISO 27001

ISO 27001 help organizations to implement information security controls in:

• ✔Ensure controls are in place to reduce risk of security threats.
• ✔Improve company image and a better reputation.
• ✔Improve business revenue.
• ✔Provide competitive advantage and market differentiation.
• ✔Demonstrate your capability without revealing your security processes.
• ✔Legislation compliance.
• ✔Clear channels and communication.

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What is Integrated Management System (IMS)?

An integrated management system (IMS) combines all internal management practices of a business into one system for easier management and operations. Quality (QMS), Environment (EMS), and Occupational Health & Safety (OHSAS) management systems are often combined and managed as an IMS.

Benefits of Integrated Management System (IMS):

• ✔Reduce business risk.
• ✔Save time, save cost, save manpower and improve profit.
• ✔Reduce resources to manage the system.
• ✔More efficient system – remove duplication.
• ✔Reduce documentation – centralized document control system.
• ✔Easier to manage.
• ✔Consolidating audit results for all management systems.

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What is HACCP & GMP?

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of preventive rather than finished product inspection.

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) is part of quality system covering the manufacture of food products and pharmaceutical products. GMPs are guidelines that outline the aspects of production and testing that can impact the quality of a product. Many countries have legislated that pharmaceutical companies must follow GMP procedures, and have created their own GMP guidelines that correspond with their legislation.

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What is SA8000 Social Accountability?

NGOs, investment analysts and other stakeholders, including your employees, are increasingly evaluating your organization's commitment to ensuring a fair and equitable working environment and transparent business practices

This climate means that your organization will be called upon more and more to demonstrate its social responsibility.

The most widely recognized global standard for managing human rights in the workplace is Social Accountability International's SA8000. It is the first auditable standard, suitable for organizations of all sizes anywhere in the world, and provides a framework for assuring all of your stakeholders that social accountability is being stewarded by your management.

Benefits of SA8000 Social Accountability

• ✔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

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