What is ISO?
Understanding ISO
For businesses, ISO Certification can be achieved in relation to its management system, i.e. the way they run their business. Therefore, if a company holds an ISO certification, then it displays that it operates to an internationally recognised level.
The most popular standards are shown below, for more industry specialised ISO standards not shown, please get in touch.
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 45001
- ISO 27001
- ISO 22301
Quality Management System
What is ISO 9001?
The ISO 9001 Quality Management System is one of the most widely adopted international standards in the world. Being able to demonstrate a commitment to quality within your business is crucial and will enhance your reputation.
ISO 9001 is a consistent way of doing things that ensures that your products or services meet your customers’ needs.
Improving your Quality Management System to the level required by this international standard, strengthens your business performance; helping to protect it from whatever challenges lie ahead. It also helps to increase your market share and profit potential.
Benefits of ISO 9001
- Complete client tenders more efficiently.
- Improved problem solving ability using ISO9001 tools, such as root cause analysis.
- Better utilisation of time through improved resource management.
- Proof to your customers that you are consistent, reliable and provide fit for purpose solutions.
- Improved customer & supplier relationships due to proactively responding to customer feedback.
- Increased job security for staff through enhanced business performance and improved job satisfaction.
Environmental Management System
What is ISO 14001?
As we all continue to put the environment at the forefront of our minds, an ISO14001 Environmental Management System is a way of showing your clients and interested parties that as a business you comply with environmental requirements.
ISO14001 certification allows you to demonstrate to your clients you endorse environmental sustainability and your business takes part in environmental initiatives. It provides a framework to set environmental impacts and aspects, legislative requirements and waste stream management. Environmental objectives allow your business to focus on environmental improvements such as increased recycling, zero to landfill and reduced energy usage.
Benefits of ISO 14001
- Demonstrate to your clients you endorse sustainability.
- Ongoing savings based on energy measurement, reduced usage and objectives.
- Continual improvement of your businesses environmental impacts and aspects.
- Shows you comply with legislative requirements
Health & Safety Management System
What is ISO 45001?
Certification to the ISO 45001 Health & Safety Management System shows clients you are committed to risk reduction and keeping your employees safe.
With the deployment of risk assessments and method statements, as well as COSHH management and contractor management, as a business you will actively focus on keeping employees and external parties visiting your premises safe.
ISO45001 demonstrates to all your interested parties, including insurance providers, that as a business you are working to an international safety standard. A safety system demonstrates to your employees that you are committed to safety, it allows them to gain confidence the operations they are completing have been risk assessed. A structured approach to the measurement of incidents, accidents and near misses will allow you to continually improve your health & safety operational statistics.
Benefits of ISO 45001
- Demonstrates you are protecting your staff, contractors and interested parties and you are committed to keeping them safe.
- Risk Assessments, Methods Statements and COSHH assessments allow you to actively reduce potential health and safety issues.
- Implementation of Incident, accident and near miss monitoring and investigation tools.
- Understand regulatory requirements.
- Improves motivation and productivity.
Business Continuity Management System
What is ISO 22301?
Utilising ISO22301 and a Business Continuity Plan gives you the tools and knowledge to continue operations in any event. Disruptive incidents and events can include fire, flood, cyber threats, pandemics and staff losses.
A robust and resilient organisation is one that can change with the times, it has an understanding of where its vulnerabilities are and have plans in place to mitigate risk as well as respond if it needs to do so. Ongoing monitoring of your business operations against a structured international standard allows you to mitigate risk by planning unexpected events. Management review meetings against the standard clause requirements ensure you continually check and improve these business risk activities.
Benefits of ISO 22301
- Business Continuity Plans allow you to safeguard your business due to unforseen circumstances and events.
- Shows your clients you can continue to provide your products and services in any event.
- Structured and ongoing reviews of your business and potential risks, allowing you to focus, adapt and stay in control.
- Gives your employees clear instructions on what to do in the event of an emergency.
Information Security Management System
What is ISO 27001?
An ISO 27001 Information Security Management System allows you to keep your company, your clients and your interested parties data safe. The Statement of Applicability which is introduced during certification, maps out your core Information Security activities and controls, allowing you and your employees clear visual representation of your activities.
ISO27001 sets out how to design, build and implement an Information Security Management System that can be independently certified for assurance purposes. Information Security Management System tools, such as, information security risk assessments, information security policies, penetration testing, asset registers, statement of applicability and data protection gives your business the knowledge and capability to control information security threats.
It allows your clients confidence that their information is secure, further enhancing your company reputation.
Benefits of ISO 27001
- Information security systems and data are kept safe.
- Clearly maps out your potential information security risks.
- Enhances your clients confidence in your operations.
- Gives clear instruction to your employees how to manage information security.
- Keeps track of your company assets.