ISO Certification in India - Explained
by Paras Mehra 3.62K
Introduction
When we resort to procuring any goods, thing or services the very first thought we come across with is “QUALITY”. We expect and desire that whatever we are acquiring, advertising, promoting and selling must possess distinct features of excellence must have it own set standard and class.
Hence the concept of ISO certification introduced which treated as a reflection of fitness in terms of quality, efficiency, and safety which give world class specifications for the product, services, and system.
ISO Certification: Let’s understand what ISO Certification?
The acronym of ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, it is independent and non-governmental international organization with a membership of 162 members, which has it's headquartered in Geneva (Switzerland). The ISO certified product and services ensure that product and services are safe, reliable and of good quality and for business it acts as a strategic tool that reduces the cost by minimizing waste, mitigate risk and increase productivity and build trusts.
Types of ISO Certification: How do they recognize
- ISO 9001 Certified
- ISO 9001:2000
- ISO 9001:2008
1. ISO 9001 Certification:
It is suitable for all sizes, types of organizations and is well established around the world as a valuable quality management system. Its implementation is spread in all areas of the business, people, services, and equipment. The assessment is required on continual basis to improve the working practices
2. ISO 9001:2000
ISO 9001:2000 certification constantly strive to meet the requirement for quality management system which the organization needs to exhibit its ability to constantly provide a quality product that meets the customer and another stakeholder requirement. However, it has obsolete now and replaced in 2008 by ISO 9001:2008.
3. ISO 9001:2008
It is advance version certification which has been in place over a decade and it is used by both customer and organization as a tool to improve and control the quality of product with the prime objective of customer satisfaction and philosophy of continual improvement in all aspects of the business.
Principle of ISO Certification/registration
- Customer satisfaction: organizations growth and success largely determined by the satisfaction of customers because it has a direct relationship with the organization growth.
- Leadership: the strong ability of leadership is needed to create the inspiring vision for the organization.
- Involvement of people: creates an environment where people become fully involved in achieving the organization's objectives
- Continual improvement: adopting this as a part of the everyday culture is a key objective for an organization.
Information for ISO certification
ISO Compliance Company not only helps in boosting the business in many ways but also help in attracting customer, retaining talented employee and fetching investors. The ISO certified company increases the competitive strength, reduces the competition and build goodwill.
- The very first thing one needs to do is to choose a certification body like CASCO
- It must be ensured that certification body must use the relevant CASCO standard
- Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) represent in India in ISO
- NABCB(National accreditation board for certification body)in the accredited body in India which uses the CASCO standards.
- Once the certification body is selected you need to proceed for preparing the documents required for certification,
- Documents must be based on quality manual and set of quality system procedure.
- Documents should be in accordance with international standards and ISO
- Trained your worker and employee and make them aware benefits about ISO works and certification.
- Once the training of employees and program successfully implemented the next step would be the verification and simplification of documents and other organization records and that would be achieved by auditors who will inspect all the records, then only proper ISO certification can be done.