ISO Certification Procedure

From the certification body point of view the management systems certification process has following stages:

• Preparation stage
• Certification audit - 1. stage
• Certification audit - 2. stage
• Award of the certificate

Preparation stage

Preparation stage is the stage comprising the audit preparation. QCert Singapore shall delegate the audit team. Audit team is responsible for superior audit execution.

Certification audit - 2. stage

2.stage certification audit shall take place at the site of the client and individual workstations, which are audit subjects according to the clients requirements specified in the contract. Process of audit performance contains of these stages:

• Preparation (Programme) – lead auditor shall elaborate the programme with the time schedule and requirements for the participation of individual competent people
• Realization – the process of audit performance
• Closing – at the closing meeting with the certification organization management representatives audit team shall evaluate the audit process and shall determine the dates for nonconformities elimination.
• Evaluation – output document from the certification audit is certification audit report. Report is elaborated by lead auditor, who is responsible also for its completness and precision. Lead auditor is obligatory to incorporate all comments from auditors and technical experts, who participated at the audit, to the report, after the personal consulting.