Vital Stages of ISO Certification Where You Need Consultants

ISO 9001 is known worldwide as the ultimate standard for quality management system (QMS) which helps any business, regardless of its sector to meet quality expectations of their customers.

The standard gives out a vast number of regulatory and statutory practices for QMS directed and so complying with each is quite a challenging task.  Thus, to implement it in your organization, you need a quality assurance consultant who will make you understand ISO 9001 requirements and guide you to form an appropriate QMS and support through every stage of certification. They will provide with a comprehensive checklist enabling you to know how close or ready your organization is for ISO 9001 certification.


To put it simply, a consultant has in-depth knowledge of ISO 9001 and has enough practical experience of implementing the standard in multiple types of organizations so they will provide you with a definite guide and plan to adjust your QMS processes to meet with ISO requirements.  Implementation of any ISO standard is a step-by-step process, especially involving a Plan-Do-Check-Act policy. A consultant will help make sure you pass through every stage fluently and get certified!

Stage 1: Determining Scope of Your QMS

The scope of your QMS can be best determined after a thorough gap analysis. Performed by consultants from a quality assurance services agency, they will evaluate your present quality management framework comparing it with each clause of ISO 9001. This will eventually help you know the level of compliance the present quality management framework has. The consultants will prepare an elaborative report of their findings stating all the setbacks, shortfalls or nonconformance problems in the framework against ISO 9001 requirements. You will need to address each of them with your modified QMS prior to getting certification.

Stage 2: Documentation

The preparation of QMS documentation is another painstaking job. You need to incorporate every minute detail of QMS i.e. its structure, functions, process interactions, integration with other management systems and roles of staff. A consultant will assist in documenting your QMS by including each of these aspects to make sure that its implementation is well directed. They will also oversee that your documentation aligns with quality management processes, policies, objectives and context of your organization. This stage will set up the foundation for next big step i.e. implementation of QMS across your organization.

Stage 3:  Implementation of QMS

The consultants will be your director and guiding light for implementing the QMS according to ISO 9001. They will provide you with necessary training, resources, best practices and implementation toolkits to for that. Following the documented system is the key to successful certification. Consultants will assess and verify that every documented aspect is implemented across your organization. During implementation, they will also visit your premises, talk to employees who are directly involved and partake in discussions with management to make sure implementation of QMS is fail-safe.

Stage 4: Certification

Once the implementation of a reformed and conforming QMS is done, the next and final step is ISO certification. Consultants will carry out an internal audit to confirm compliance of your QMS with ISO 9001 requirements. Any nonconformance can be hence identified and corrected. In other words, they will make your QMS eligible for certification at one go.  You can then contact a certification body which will then give ISO 9001 certification on confirming that your QMS is truly ISO compliant in every way. The certification will remain valid for three years pending surveillance audits that have to be conducted on periodic intervals, (at least once in six months to keep up your QMS certification compliance). Consultants can also help with surveillance audits or they will assign specialized ISO auditors for that. 

Bottom Line

The role of a quality assurance consultant is prominent in ISO certification process. With absolute knowledge of various standards and their requirements, they best know how to help organizations to meet the requirements, document carefully, clear audits and get their concerned certification. They seek to make your process of certification far easier and faster, so that your costs can be optimized, and you get potentially get a higher ROI.


Contact Details:

Business Name: Compliancehelp Consulting, LLC

Email Id: info@quality-assurance.com

Phone No: 877 238 5855


Also Read: Why Do You Need Quality Assurance Services for ISO 9001 Certification? 

Location: 5686 S Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, UT 84118, USA

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