ISO 9001 is an internationally recognised standard for the quality management systems. The standard is generic in nature and caters for both the manufacturing and service industries.

Organisations which are certified to this standard reflect evidence of a business operation which is supported by a fundamental and robust quality management system platform.

 

Repeat business only comes to organisations which can provide services or products consistently, and without deviation. Complying with this standard requirement means you can demonstrate you can do this.

In essence, organisations with an effective Quality Management System (QMS) will typically meet customer expectations better than an organisation that does not have an effective QMS.

• Improved consistency of service and product performance
• Ensures that customers come back and not the products or services delivered
• Improved operational efficiency and competitiveness hence reducing overheads
• Reduce costs but increase profitability
• Increased marketing and sales opportunities
• Greater international acceptance and competitiveness.

QIC specialises in Certification, backed by an efficient IT system and a group of professionals and experts.

Our array of experts provide you with the process approach audits aimed at promoting continual improvement – enabling your organisation to remain competitive globally.

We eliminate red tape and bureaucracy and provide you with the most cost effective audits, which explains why we still remain as an dominant player in the certification business.

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It provides practical tools for companies and organizations looking to identify and control their environmental impact and constantly improve their environmental performance.

 

• Reduced cost of waste management
• Savings in consumption of energy and materials
• Lower distribution costs
• Improved corporate image among regulators, customers and the public.

 

• Compliance with a legal or business requirement
• Competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement
• Independent verification of system suitability & process reliability
• Enhancing business reputation & corporate image
• Showing people your care & commitment about a subject of concern
• Greater staff awareness of and responsibility for company obligations
• Better resource usage and reduced costs of failures
• Demonstrating “Due Diligence” to be in more legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

Global Clients chose us in preference to others for a variety of reasons. In most cases it’s because they like our fair and practical approach throughout the entire certification process and how we understand and meet each individual client’s needs. In short the Quality of our Service.

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ISO 45001 is an internationally recognised standard for occupational health and safety. It exists to help all kinds of organisations put in place demonstrably sound occupational health and safety performance.

 

ISO 45001 enables companies to focus on implementing health and safety systems which safeguard anyone coming into your work environment: clients, staff and contractors.

•  Compliance with a legal or business requirement
•  Competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement
• Independent verification of system suitability & process reliability.
• Enhancing business reputation & corporate image
• Showing people your care & commitment about a subject of concern
• Greater staff awareness of and responsibility for company obligations
• Better resource usage and reduced costs of failures.
• Demonstrating “Due Diligence” to be in more legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

Global Clients chose us in preference to others for a variety of reasons. In most cases it’s because they like our fair and practical approach throughout the entire certification process and how we understand and meet each individual client’s needs. In short the Quality of our Service.

Network of Overseas Strategic Partners	Fixed Cost & Competitive Quotations
Accredited Certification	International Accepted Certificates
Recognised Worldwide	Web Discussion Group
Industry Experienced Audit Team	Free Newsletters & Updates
Defined & Agreed Project Timescales	Email Help Desk

Accredited Certification Statement:
UKAS accreditation issued to Quality Inspection and Certifications (UK) Limited(No. 5965) covers ISO 45001 and the sectors applicable to the activities carried out by the certified organization and has been issued in accordance with the ISO 17021-1:2015, ISO 17021-10:2018 and IAF MD22:2018 documents.

The ISO 22000 family of International Standards addresses food safety management.

The consequences of unsafe food can be serious and ISO’s food safety management standards help organizations identify and control food safety hazards.

 

As many of today’s food products repeatedly cross national boundaries, International Standards are needed to ensure the safety of the global food supply chain.

• Compliance with a legal or business requirement
• Competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement
• Independent verification of system suitability & process reliability.
• Enhancing business reputation & corporate image
• Showing people your care & commitment about a subject of concern
• Greater staff awareness of and responsibility for company obligations
• Better resource usage and reduced costs of failures.
• Demonstrating “Due Diligence” to be in more legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

You may also want to work on identifying and developing further pre-requisite programmes (PRPs) for your particular sector of the food production industry. For further advice, view our page on FSCC 22000 Foundation for Food Safety Certification.

Global Clients chose us in preference to others for a variety of reasons. In most cases it’s because they like our fair and practical approach throughout the entire certification process and how we understand and meet each individual client’s needs. In short the Quality of our Service.

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Accredited Certification	International Accepted Certificates
Recognised Worldwide	Web Discussion Group
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Defined & Agreed Project Timescales	Email Help Desk

ISO 27001 is a specification for the management of information security. It is applicable to all sectors of industry and not confined to just information held on computers. Information may be printed or written on paper, stored electronically, transmitted by post or email, shown on films, or spoken in conversation.

• Confidentiality, ensuring that access to information is appropriately authorised
• Integrity, safeguarding the accuracy and completeness of information and processing methods
• Availability, ensuring that authorized users have access to information when they need it

The objective of ISO 27001 certification is to ensure that there are adequate confidentiality, integrity and availability controls in place to safeguard the information of interested parties. These include clients, employees, trading partners and consumers.

Unprotected systems are vulnerable to an array of threats, including computer-assisted fraud, sabotage and viruses. Such threats can be internal or external, accidental or malicious. Breaches in information security can allow vital information to be accessed, stolen, corrupted or lost.

Information is now globally accepted as being a vital asset for most organisations. Therefore the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of corporate and customer information may be essential to maintain competitive edge, cash-flow, profitability, legal compliance and commercial image.

The ISO 27001 standard is intended to assist with these risks. It is easy to imagine the consequences and damage to a brand or organisation if its information was lost, destroyed, corrupted, burnt, flooded, sabotaged or misused.

An information security management system compliant to ISO 27001 can help you demonstrate to clients and suppliers that you take information security seriously. You will gain a competitive advantage; an ever-growing number of companies require certification to ISO 270001 as a prerequisite for doing business.

You will be able to make a public statement of capability without revealing your security processes. And by ensuring controls are in place, you reduce the risk of security threats and prevent systems from being exploited.

Whatever the media the information takes, or means by which it is shared or stored, the ISO 27001 standard assists in providing a system approach an organisation ensure it is always appropriately protected.

Demonstration of credibility and trust	Proven business credentials
Establishes that laws and regulations are being met	Openings in new markets
Ensures commitment to on-going information security	Customer satisfaction
Provides confidence to stakeholders, customer, trading partners, employees

The main requirements of the standard can be categorised as follows:

Security policy	Communications and operations management
Organisational security	Access control
Asset classification and control	System development and maintenance
Personnel security	Business continuity management
Physical and environmental security	Compliance with legislation

The certification process is in three simple steps:

Application for certification

Complete the on line form for QIC to send a quotation.

Initial Certification Audit

The assessment process is based on a 2 stage approach as follows:

Stage 1 – a basic audit to check whether the organisation is in a state of readiness for the stage 2 audit and involves the following:

Confirm that the documents conforms to the requirements of the ISO 27001	Production of a report that identifies any non-compliance or potential for non-compliance and
Confirm the scope of certification including any justifiable not applicable.	Production of an assessment plan and confirm a date for the stage 2 assessment visit.
Check legislative compliance	Agree a corrective action plan if required.

Stage 2 – the purpose of this visit is to confirm that the information security management system fully conforms to the requirements of ISO 27001 in practice and involves the following:

Undertake sample audits of the processes and activities defined in the scope of assessment	Produce an audit programme and confirm a month and year for the first surveillance visit
Document how the system complies with the standard	Report any non-conformity or observations

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GMP refers to the Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations.

GMP certification is granted to manufacturing or service systems of organisations to certify that they engage with good manufacturing practices in their manufacturing or service processes, according to a Standard Code of Practice related to their business.

GMP regulations address issues including:

Record Keeping	Equipment Verification
Personnel Qualifications	Process Validation
Sanitation	Complaint Handling
Cleanliness

Global clients chose us in preference to others for a variety of reasons.

In most cases it’s because they like our fair and practical approach throughout the entire certification process and how we understand and meet each individual client’s needs. In short: the quality of our service.

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What is HACCP?

Who standardises HACCP?

What are the benefits of HACCP Certification?

What is the certification process?

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What is HACCP?

HACCP is an internationally recognized, science-based, food safety system that is used to help ensure the manufacture of safe food products.

HACCP is designed to prevent, reduce or eliminate potential biological, chemical and physical food safety hazards, including those caused by cross-contamination.

Who standardises HACCP?

HACCP methodology has been standardised internationally by the Codex Alimentarius Commission which was created by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations to develop food standards.

What are the benefits of HACCP Certification?

•  Current and predicted hazards can be identified and removed
•  Provides greater confidence in product safety
•  Remedial action can be taken during production, i.e. before serious problem occur
•  Control parameters are relatively easy to monitor, i.e. temperature, water activity, pH, texture…
•  More cost-effective than microbiological or chemical analysis
•  Operation is controlled on the premises
•  All staff can be involved with product safety
•  Reduced product loss
•  Complementary to quality management systems, i.e. ISO 9001, ISO 22000
•  Internationally recognised
•  Application of HACCP system can promote international trade by equalising food safety control systems in the world.
•  Ensures you are compliant with the law
•  Applies to whole system not selected sampling point
•  Due diligence defence in court.

What is the certification process?

The certification process is in three simple steps:

Application for certification

Complete the on line form for QIC to send a quotation.

Initial Certification Audit

The assessment process is based on a 2-stage approach as follows:

Stage 1 – a basis audit to check whether the organisation is in a state of readiness for the stage 2 audit and involves the following:

•  Confirm that the food safety manual conforms to the requirements of the HACCP
•  Confirm the scope of certification
•  Check legislative, work environment and Infrastructure compliance,
•  Production of a report that identifies any non-conformity or potential for non-conformity
•  Agree a corrective action plan if required
•  Production of an assessment plan and confirm a date for the stage 2 assessment visit.

Stage 2 – the purpose of this visit is to confirm that the food safety management system fully conforms to the requirements of HACCP in practice and involves the following:

•  Undertake sample audits of the processes and activities defined in the scope of assessment
•  Document how the system complies with the standard and its effectiveness
•  Report any non-conformities or observations
•  Produce an audit programme for 3 years and confirm a month and year for the first surveillance visit.

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The Foundation for Food Safety Certification was founded in 2004. The Foundation developed FSSC 22000. This development is supported by the Confederation of the FoodDrinkEurope. The scheme is recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

The Foundation also legally owns the HACCP food safety systems certification scheme. As a nonprofit organization the Foundation facilitates and owns the scheme and manages its copyright with licence agreements. The actual responsibility and authority for the content of the scheme and the delivered certification audits is the Board of Stakeholders, represented by the relevant stakeholders of the food supply chain. Furthermore the Foundation facilitates the NTWG GlobalGap.

Besides the copyright management the Foundation also:

• focuses on the international compliance and adaptability of Food Safety Standards
• focuses on the development and maintenance of certification and inspection systems for Food Safety
• promotes the international use of these Food Safety systems
• provides services to support the certification of Food Safety systems
• provides information on Food Safety issues