ISO Certification in India

Advantages of ISO Certification

• International credibility: ISO Certification plays a vital role in helping the organisation to build credibility in overseas business.
• Customer Satisfaction: ISO standards are intended to make organisations to serve their customers in a better way that would simultaneously increase customers’ satisfaction
• Government Tenders: ISO Certification is quite essential to bid for Government Tenders.
• Business Efficiency: Functional efficiency of organisations is improved by obtaining ISO Certification. SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) and work instructions can be developed with the help of ISO Certification Agency. Implementation of ISO in an organisation manages the resources efficiently.
• Product Quality: By obtaining ISO Certification, the product quality matches up the international standards, it will reduce the risk of product order rejections that may occur due to the flawed products.
• Marketability: ISO Certification improves the business credibility, and it helps the business marketing directly.

Applicable Fee for ISO Certification

Fee for ISO certification in India varies from organisation to organisation. The ISO certification body will compute the fee for ISO certification by considering the below mentioned different parameters:

• Size of an organisation
• Number of employees
• Processes of Organization
• Level of risk associated with the scope of services of the organisation
• The complexity of the management system
• The number of working shifts

Selecting the Type of ISO Certification

First of all, the entrepreneur needs to choose the type of ISO certification required for the business. There are various types of ISO certification are available such as listed below:

• ISO 9001:2008- Quality Management System
• OHSAS 18001 – Occupational Health Safety Management System
• ISO 37001 – Anti-bribery management systems
• ISO 31000 – Risk Management
• ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System
• ISO 10002 – Compliant Management System
• ISO 14001:2015 – Environment Management System
• ISO 26000 – Social Responsibility
• ISO 28000 – Security Management
• ISO 22008 – Food Safety Management
• SA 8000 – Social accountability
• EnMS EN 16001 ISO 50001 – Energy Management
• SO/IEC 17025 – Testing and calibration laboratories
• SO 13485 – Medical devices
• ISO 639 – Language codes
• ISO 4217 – Currency codes
• ISO 3166 – Country codes
• ISO 8601 – Date and time format
• ISO 20121 – Sustainable events
• SO/IEC 27001 – Information security management

Selecting an ISO Certification Body (ISO Registrar)

As stated above ISO does not provide companies’ certification. It needs to be done by the external certification bodies. Thus it is mandatory to recognise the credible certification body. When selecting a certification body, the entrepreneur has to follow the things listed below.

• Evaluate several certification bodies
• Check if the certification body uses the relevant CASCO standards
• Check whether the certification body is accredited.

Note: Accreditation is not compulsory; however, the companies should meet the ISO accreditation bodies’ requirements.

To find an accredited certification body in our country, contact the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India.

Onsite Inspection or Audit

The ISO registrar will conduct a physical onsite inspection to audit the changes made in the organisation.

During the audit, if the registrar finds anything that does not meet with the requirements of the ISO standards, registrar determines the severity and issue findings. Audit findings are usually called as nonconformities and fall into one of two categories depending on severity.

• A Minor Non-conformance – It deals with minor infractions of procedures or minor failures of the system in meeting the ISO standards.
• A Major Non-conformance – It deals with issues where the nonconforming products are likely to reach the customers or where there is a breakdown in the quality system that results in an inefficient system in meeting the requirements of the standards.