In this context we are looking at business certification against recognised standards and schemes such as ISO. Certification can bring many benefit
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An Independent Audit
Before achieving certification, your organisation will go through a series of audits and checks, for the certification body to evaluate how well you comply with the particular standard or scheme.
These certification bodies are impartial, which means the feedback you get from the audits is completely independent and objective.
Sometimes it takes someone from outside the organisation to see obvious improvements.
A Recognised Certification Mark
ISO Certification comes with a certification mark that you can use on stationery, websites and vehicle livery. Next time you are on the road, look around, you’ll recognise many of the main certification marks on vans and trucks.
Many value these marks as a way to demonstrate their commitment to a particular theme.
What is ISO Certification?
Certification for Tendering
Certification can provide a competitive advantage during the tender process, with many procurement departments taking certification in to consideration at the early stages of a tender.
In some cases, certification can exempt organisations from answering entire parts of a pre-qualification questionnaire, which speeds up the response process.
Driving Continual Improvement
Above all else, certification drives continual improvement, through regular objective audits and monitoring of processes.
How Can I Obtain ISO Certification
With over 22,000 international standards available, finding the right one for your business might seem a little daunting.
The ISO 9001 Quality Management System is the most popular place to start. This standard helps ensure you deliver a consistent level of quality and satisfaction. Other well-known standards are ISO 13485 Medical devices — Quality management systems — Requirements for regulatory purposes, ISO 27001 Information Security, ISO 14001 Environmental, ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety, IATF 16949 International Automotive Task Force and many more.
This best way to determine which management system is right for your business is to discuss your needs with us.
If you haven’t done so already, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We will then plan and book a visit to your esteemed organization to come and run through your needs in more detail. Following this visit, we will then be able to provide you with a complete road map and proposal for the services required to you.
We request you to please note that our offers/quotes are not available without visiting your site, hence plan and schedule our visit as per availability of core team members and decision maker of the organization.
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We pride ourselves on keeping the process as simple as possible.
If you accept our proposal, we will book an initial assessment with one of our experienced Lead Auditors. They will conduct a gap analysis to identify what works need to be done in order to become compliant. We will make a series of recommendations.
We prepare documentation to include mandatory procedures (as required by the Standard), in line with your current company procedures. It will also cover required forms/formats/work instructions/policies/manuals etc as applicable as appropriate.
We provide guidance and support to your employees during implementation process. A critical and crucial process where we also learn to improve the documents prepared earlier, also guide in process improvements if any opportunity is cited.
Once the implementation in all the department is completed we announce an internal audit and management review meeting of your organization. This is a first step towards initiating continual improvement in organization.
Provided all requirements are met, we will present you with your accredited ISO certification body.
We recommend you use an accredited certification body. We can help you to choose a certification body for your organization.
Please Note:
- We are not an ISO Certification Body, and we don’t endorse any in-particular.
- We do not receive commission from certification bodies for referrals given.
- As ISO Consultants, we use our experience to help you choose a certification body that meets the needs of your organisation.
- We will provide the details you enter in to this form to Certification Bodies that meet your certification criteria.
- We may be in-touch to offer you impartial guidance and support through the process.
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Management systems focus on continual improvement of your products, services or processes so you will be required to continually maintain your management system.
We’ll visit you again in six month’s time to undertake an internal review or ‘health check’. At this point, our auditor will provide support and review how your system is being managed at that time. If they spot anything that may cause a problem with your re-certification audit in six month’s time, they will raise it with you, giving you clear instructions on what you need to do to ensure compliance.
Our internal review will allow you to feel more supported and confident as your annual re-certification audit approaches. Failure to be re-certificated is therefore rare.
The ISO Certification Process
While the ISO certification process can vary depending on the scheme, generally management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 45001 follows a Two Stage Process, with the certificates lasting for a period of
3 years before renewal.
Pre-Certification Services
Are you ready for ISO Certification?
Certification bodies cannot provide consultancy or advice, so you need to be ready for Certification before engaging with them.
We Can Support You: If you have not yet implemented a management system or you’re unsure whether you are ready for ISO Certification, our consultants can help.
We are independent of Certification Bodies, so we CAN offer advice and support. Contact us to find out more.
Pre-Audit or Gap Analysis
Accredited Certification Bodies will not advice or provide consultancy.
A pre-audit/gap analysis from a consultant will help you identify missing or weak areas of you management systems.
As this is not part of the formal certification process it is not a pass or fail audit, however leaving pre-audit findings unresolved could lead to non-conformances during the certification process.
Contact us to discuss a pre-audit or gap analysis service.
Stage 1 – Document Review
The stage 1 audit signals the start of the ISO certification process, and is used as an opportunity for the certification body to review the structure of your management system, through the available documentation.
They will seek to verify that any mandatory requirements have been addressed within the documentation.
This is usually conducted On-Site and is also used to plan for the stage 2 audit, allowing the auditor to tour your site and assess any special circumstances that could affect the audit.
It’s often said that the stage 1 audit is not ‘pass or fail’, however the auditor can raise non-conformances that must be addressed by the stage 2 visit, and they can recommend the stage 2 date be postponed if they feel the management system will not be ready in time.
There is a maximum timeline between stage 1 and stage 2 audits, after which you will need to re-do stage 1.
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Stage 2 – Certification Audit
The stage 2 audit will cover all aspects of the management system, sampling records to obtain objective evidence that the system is operating effectively.
For this reason, there needs to be a minimum of 3 months of records and evidence for the auditors to review.
The stage 2 audit will again be held on-site and will need to include all business areas and locations referenced in your certification scope statement.
Stage 2 audits are generally considerable longer than the stage 1 audit.
There are several categories of audit finding at stage 2, the most serious of which, a major non-conformance can delay the certification. Find out more about Categories of Audit Findings.
Surveillance Audits
A programme of surveillance audits will usually be created at the end of the stage 2 audit.
Intervals can vary depending on the complexity of your management system and your preference, but usually these fall either annually or 6-monthly.
Surveillance audits are booked just as the other audits are, so there is no spot-checks or surprise visits.
In practice, these audits take a similar form to the stage 2 audits above, however they will focus on smaller sections of the management system each visit. Therefore these visits are generally shorter than the stage 2 process.
Services
Audits
Audit support for the Internal audits, initial certification audits as well as surveillance audit until the validity of the certificate to help you out with the queries raised by the auditor for a smooth auditing process.
We also provide services for Process Audit, Supplier Audit and Factory Evaluations
Training
Paalan International does various ISO Training Programs with real time trainers as faculties. The experienced Trainers control you through the whole Audit process, from starting the review through to leading audit catch up with this International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) certified Lead Auditor course.
Consultancy for Regulatory Compliance
We are a consultancy firm providing Regulatory support services needed to achieve CDSCO License (Indian MDR), CE Markings (EU MDR), US FDA.
We also work for Non Indian Manufacturers to get CDSCO License with their Indian clients.
We are a team of highly experienced Technical experts in the implementation and follow-up of regulatory and technical documentation. We make the ideal partner for your regulatory requirements
Consultancy for Management System Services
We are a consultancy firm providing services to Manufacturers and service providers for Implementing Quality management systems requirements within organization to achieve ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISMS 27001, GMP, MDSAP, IATF 16949 certifications. Our services also includes Vendor Development for contractors towards project based contracts and annual retainer consultancy services.
We also work for Manufacturers, Contractors, service providers, R&D units. Our clients are micro scale start up organizations to a large scale company.
We make the ideal partner for your management system requirements.
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Clients say
We are very pleased with the way Mr. Deven Chandegra from M/S. Paalan International worked with us for our project on ISO 9001 :2015 & ISMS 27001 :2013 certification. Every aspect of the work done in terms of training; documentations, support in implementation, internal audits; by Paalan International is highly appreciated.
We had no idea what to expect, the outcome is excellent because of smooth communication and support provided by Paalan International throughout the process of implementation in our Mumbai & Nashik unit.
Implementation in both ISO standards the process was completed quickly, with concise and pragmatic documentation and briefings from Paalan International. As a result we gained certification in a remarkably short time-scale.
We have understood the standard requirements and implemented that system easily; which has helped us to demonstrate our certificates proudly that we at Datagrid Solutions Pvt Ltd are ISO 9001 :2015 and ISMS 27001 :2013 standard requirements compliant organization
We are looking forward to working with you further and we also recommend others to use consultancy services for ISO standards requirements from Paalan International.
We want to express our appreciation for PAALAN INTERNATIONAL's guidance and assistance in helping us achieve our ISO 13485:2016 certification. At this time, the ISO 13485:2016 (MDQMS) process is very new to our company wishing to obtain certification and the auditors. Success is only possible with an in-depth understanding of all MDQMS requirements and their complete implementation.
The PAALAN INTERNATIONAL Consultant team worked closely with our staff throughout the entire process providing stable and consistent support. Though there were several unexpected obstacles along the way, you continued to work and support our staff to achieve its goal.
PAALAN INTERNATIONAL's professional and timely commitment to helping us achieve the MDQMS certification goal is exemplary. We hope to continue to work with PAALAN INTERNATIONAL to support the compliant operations of our quality system as well as for other future projects related to regulatory body requirements.
We thank you for the excellent work, directed by you, regarding for consultancy services for our ISO 13485:2016 standard certifications and regulatory requirements of CDSCO. We are delighted to have received our management certification (ISO 13485:2016) especially during these challenging times.
We are also confident that the quality system, process validation and ongoing regulatory consulting assistance by Paalan International, will aid us in making sure we meet the CDSCO's MDR 2017 requirements necessary for future compliance of our products and systems going forward.
As originally discussed on the first day we met, this entire process was under implementation for us and your professionalism and guidance was, and continues to be, well worth the investment.
We enjoyed working with you and want to thank you for your professional and
congenial nature for consultancy, training and International auditing services for ISO
9001:2015 Quality Management System Standard.
All the employees had very positive things to say and enjoyed visiting with
you about what they do. We appreciate your knowledge and expertise of ISO and
look forward to implementing your suggestions in order to improve and streamline
our quality system.
We were very pleased with the audit method and look forward to working with
you in the future.
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