ISO Certification Guides, Glossary & Standards Updates

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Guides & whitepapers

What Stage 1 and Stage 2 auditors look for, clause by clause. In preparation.

Environmental aspects, legal registers and emergency preparedness, with sector examples. In preparation.

Worked examples, single and multi-site. In preparation.

What transfers, what gets re-audited, and the questions to ask before you move. In preparation.

Tracked for you

Both standards now require organisations to consider whether climate change is a relevant issue in their context.

The mandatory document behind every audit-day calculation in our offers.

The standard EdelCert International is being assessed against for accreditation.

Further updates will be tracked here as they are published.

Glossary

Certification body (CB): An organisation, like EdelCert International, that audits management systems and issues certificates against standards such as ISO 9001.
Accreditation body (AB): An organisation, like IAS, that assesses certification bodies against ISO/IEC 17021-1 and authorises them to issue accredited certificates.
IAF MLA: The International Accreditation Forum multilateral recognition arrangement. Certificates under an MLA-signatory accreditation are recognised across member economies.
IAF MD 5: The mandatory document that sets how audit time is calculated from headcount, sites and complexity.
Stage 1 / Stage 2: The two parts of an initial certification audit: a readiness and documentation review, then the on-site audit of the system in practice.
Non-conformity (minor / major): A failure to meet a requirement of the standard. Minor: isolated, corrective plan required. Major: systemic or serious, must be corrected and verified before certification.
Surveillance audit: Annual audits in years one and two of the cycle that confirm the system is maintained.
Scope: The activities, sites and standard covered by a certificate, and, for a CB, the IAF sectors it is accredited to certify.