Certifications
- Assessment & Consulting Services
- Our Approach To Consulting
- Our Approach To Auditing
- Certification Process
- Getting Started
- ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard
- ISO 13485:2003 Medical Devices – Quality Management Standard
- ISO 14001:2004 Enviromental Management Standard
- Health & Safety Management
- Food Safety Management (HACCP)
The certification process is extremely straight forward and can be broken down into eight steps, as below:
1. Questionnaire
We ask you to complete our certification questionnaire to give us information about your organisation. Simply complete as much as you can.
2. Consulting
Please refer to our Consulting Packages on this website.
3. Quotation
We provide you an obligation free fixed price quotation from the information that we have gathered from the questionnaire.
4. Application
If you wish to accept our quotation we require you to complete a one page “application” form contained therein and return it to us by either fax or email. You are then logged into our database and become a client. Once the quotation is accepted by the client, the acceptance will be acknowledged in writing by Investrend Certifications.
5. GAP Analysis
We conduct a GAP Analysis in accordance with the consulting package you have chosen and present this written analysis to you for your approval.
6. Pre-assessment form
After we log you as a client we send you a pre-assessment form that you must complete and send back to us. This form gives us more information about your organisation, i.e. when you expect to be ready to commence the process and thereafter when you expect to be ready for your stage 1 audit etc. The Consulting and/or Audit Team/s will be nominated and the client will be contacted to arrange commencement of the services requested.
7. Consulting Services (if applicable)
Where applicable we conduct the consulting services you have requested in accordance with the consulting package on this website.
8. Stage 1 – Assessment
We conduct a stage 1 assessment where we review your management system documentation to ensure it is in full compliance with the chosen standard(s). We also do a review to ensure that you are fully prepared for the full stage 2 certification assessments. A full report will be prepared and forwarded to you after the assessment.
9. Stage 2 - Certification Assessment
Once we are satisfied that your documentation meets the necessary requirements, we conduct a full on-site audit of your management system. In very basic terms – “we check to see that you do in practice what you say you in your system documentation”. If no major non-conformances are identified during the audit, the information is processed and the organisation becomes certified to the chosen standard. Once the organisation is certified we then conduct surveillance audits every six or twelve months.