S&S Associates is one of the fast growing ISO consultancy companies in India based in Bangalore. We provide Consultancy and training services for the following International Standards
- ISO 9001 - quality management system
- ISO 14001 - environmental management system
- ISO 45001 - occupation, health and safety management system
- ISO 22000 - food safety management system
- IATF 16949 - quality management system for automotive industries
- AS9100 - quality management system for aerospace industries
ISO 9001 - quality management system
ISO 9001 certification is suitable for all sizes and types of organizations and is well established around the world as an invaluable Quality Management System standard. It is suitable for organizations in all industry sectors and will help your organization to improve management processes to compete locally and/or globally.The process encompasses the entire organisation and requires senior management buy-in, it is not just a function of the Quality Department. To achieve ISO 9001 certification your organisation needs to demonstrate that it can meet the regulatory requirements and apply the system effectively to be of real benefit to your customers.
Benefits of ISO 9001
ISO 9001 Certification will provide maximum benefit to your organization if it approaches ISO 9001 implementation in a practical way. This will ensure that the Quality Management Systems that are adopted, work to improve the business and are not just a set of procedures that your employees will find hard to manage.
By adopting an approach that starts out to implement more efficient working practices and focuses on the business objectives of the organization, you will achieve a system that will help and support your staff, and improve your levels of customer satisfaction. Whether you use an external assessor or allocate an internal resource to carry out the initial assessments, you will need to ensure that they have buy-in from senior management, so that all areas of the organization are aware of the importance of the ISO 9001 Certification process. ISO 9001 Certification is not just suitable for large organizations but also small businesses that will benefit from adopting efficient Quality Management Systems that will save time and cost, improve efficiency and ultimately improve customer relationships.
Some of the benefits to your organisation:
Provides senior management with an efficient management process
Define Clear responsibility and authority to each individuals across the organization
Identifies and encourages more efficient and time saving processes
Highlights deficiencies
Helps in cost reduction
Provides continuous assessment and improvement
Give more Marketing opportunities
Some of the benefits to your customers:
Improved quality and service
Improves on time delivery
Right first time attitude
Reduction in returned products and complaints
ISO 14001 - environmental management system
ISO 14001 helps businesses of all sizes across all sectors make their day to day operations more sustainable. Sustainability can ultimately save money, improve brand reputation, engage employees and build resilience against uncertainty as well as the ability to rapidly adapt to change.ISO 14001 standard provides guidance on how to consider multiple aspects of your business procurement, storage, distribution, product development, manufacturing, etc.- so that it reduces its impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage emergency response, customer expectations, stakeholders and your relationships with your local community. Depending on how your organization operates today, this may not require a lot of change beyond documenting what and how you do or it may mean a number of changes that can result in a more efficient business, cost or waste reductions and give stakeholders peace of mind.
Occupational health and Safety Management System
The occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, ISO 45001, is a new international standard that provides a framework for an organization to manage risks and opportunities to help prevent work-related injury and ill health to workers. The intended outcome is to improve and provide a safe and healthy workplace. ISO 45001 is intended to help organizations, regardless of size or industry, in designing systems to proactively prevent injury and ill health. All of its requirements are designed to be integrated into an organization’s management and business processes.KEY BENEFITS OF ISO 45001
ISO 45001 implements the Annex SL process and structure, making integration of multiple ISO management system standards easier, such as ISO 9001, Quality management systems and ISO 14001, Environmental management systems. It uses a simple plan-do-check-act (PDCA) model, which provides a framework for organizations to plan what they need to put in place in order to minimize the risk of injury or illness. The measures should address concerns that can lead to long-term health issues and absence from work, as well as those that give rise to injuries.
ISO 45001 enables an organization to identify OH&S hazards, risks and opportunities to proactively manage to support worker wellness/well- being. The ISO 45001 standard calls for the organization’s management and leadership to:
> Integrate responsibility for health and safety issues as part of the organization’s overall plan
> Demonstrate engagement with employees (and where they exist employees’ representatives) to create an organizational cultural that encourages active participation of workers in the OH&S management system
> Ensure the OH&SMS is integrated into an organizations business processes
ISO 22000 – Food Safety Management System and HACCP
ISO 22000 is a Food Safety Management System that can be applied to any organization in the food chain, farm to fork. Becoming certified to ISO 22000 allows a company to show their customers that they have a food safety management system in place. This provides customer confidence in the product. This is becoming more and more important as customers demand safe food and food processors require that ingredients obtained from their suppliers to be safe. The standard has requirements for Food Safety Management Systems processes and procedures, and requires that the organization implement prerequisite programs and HACCP. Unlike some of the other Food Safety Management Systems Certification programs (for example FSSC 22000 and SQF) the ISO 22000 does not have specific requirements for prerequisite programs (PRPs), but requires that the organization identifies and implements the appropriate programs. This makes it more flexible, and food organizations of any type can implement and be certified to ISO 22000.What does ISO 22000 require?
ISO 22000 requires that you build a Food Safety Management System. This means that you will have a documented system in place and fully implemented throughout your facility that includes:
Effective Prerequisite Programs in place to ensure a clean sanitary environment
A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Plan developed to identify, prevent and eliminate food safety hazards,
Established documented food safety management system processes to manage food safety throughout your organization - from management and business planning aspects to day to day communication and operations affecting food safety.
Benefits of ISO 22000
Ensures safe food intake
Eliminates food borne diseases
Improves the food brand and enhances the Organization’s image
Enhances customer confidence in the food products manufactured by the Organization
Ensures Organizational commitment to manage food safety risks & hazards and exercise control
May ensure qualification as a global food supplier
Difference between HACCP and ISO 22000
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) process identifies all those hazards that threaten food safety, like sources of bacteria or chemical contamination. The CCPs or the Critical control points are the points in food production or handling during which these hazards can occur. HACCP is a part of ISO 22000 that directly addresses these hazards and sets up procedures for monitoring the critical control points in the food line. Example: correct temperature level and tolerable levels of cleanliness. HACCP also includes keeping records as objective evidence and verifying that the procedures are implemented as they are written.