Overview of ISO Registration

ISO registration is ideal for the purpose of enhancing the standard and quality of the organization’s services or products.

ISO refers to the International Standard Organization. ISO certification provides credibility to the organization. In the global marketplace, to maintain consistency and quality across industries and nations, checks and balances need to be in one place. Certification ensures that the management system, the manufacturing process has all the requirements for standardization and quality assurance. ISO certification exists in many areas of industry like medical devices, energy management, and social responsibility. It is an independent, non –governmental, international organization with a membership of 164 national standard bodies.

The purpose of ISO is to form certain standards that will guarantee the quality, safety, and efficiency of the products, services, and systems. ISO registration also acts as a proof that the manufacturing process, service or the documentation process, management system are pertaining to all the requirements related to standardization and quality assurance.

ISO certificate is issued to many industries, that is, from energy management and social responsibility to medical devices and risk management.

Every ISO certification has a separate set of standard and criteria, and even it is classified numerically. For example, ISO 9001:2015.

ISO 9001 Certification Meaning

A company that fulfils all the requirements set forth in the ISO 9001 Standard is eligible to receive ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001 certification is used for a quality management system. Organizations follow the standards to maintain the consistency in their products and services so that their customers’ and regulatory requirements are met on time and keeps on improving. 

ISO registration defines the essentials that are needed to be adopted for a quality management system. It covers information like planning, documented data, and process interaction. It also includes any important notification related to resource management like human resources. ISO involves in various activities like internal audits and corrective & prevention plan. It measures, improvise, and analyze the QMS on the basis of activities it conducts.

Benefits of ISO Certification

Obtaining ISO 9001 is important for food manufacturing units. ISO 9001 certificate assures the quality in products is maintained. Small to medium-sized manufacturer (SMM) need ISO 9001 certification to measure their QMS. Having a QMS allows you to keep a check on the irregularities for food safety standards and also helps in delivering high quality products.

• Helps in improving customer satisfaction, because ISO standards intend to make organizations deliver best quality services to their customers.

• If the company is looking forward to expand their business internationally, certification plays a very important role to build credibility in overseas business.
• Even for the purpose of govt. Tenders ISO certification plays an essential role to bid in tenders.
• After obtaining the certification, the product should match the quality of international standard; else the product will face the rejection on the grounds of quality issues.

• Maintaining standards in food products yield growth, profitability, and cost savings for SMMs.

Registration Procedure for ISO

Application to Certification Body

Business man needs to make an application as prescribed by ISO Certification body. The application must contain the rights and obligation of the businessmen.

Document Evaluation by Registrar

Now, registrar of certification body will evaluate the documents of quality manuals and other documents like policies and procedure which company is following.

Inspection or Audit in Company

Registrar will now conduct an onsite inspection, to check what all necessary changes are required in the company. If registrar observes anything not meeting with the requirement of ISO standards, it is the duty of businessman to come out with an action plan to eliminate all the flaws of the company. The action plan needs to contain the list of all the tasks which are required to be performed.

Final Audit

The final audit is re-audit of the affected area because registrar cannot proceed until all the significant non-conformities gets verified.

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When all the conformities are addressed, findings will be updated in the ISO reports, and certificate will be granted.

Surveillance Audits

Such audits will be performed from time to time with the aim to check whether a company is maintaining the ISO standards properly.