Your boss says this year you need ISO certification

Your boss says this year you need ISO certification – is it a business necessity or time wasting paper chase?

ISO certification is accepted as the worldwide stamp of approval for businesses wanting to demonstrate compliance to quality systems. There are a whole host of benefits related to becoming ISO certified and so, if you aren’t already, 2014 could be a good time to start ISO facilitation.

Increasingly, companies require their vendors to be ISO certified; with this certification you can ensure you beat off the competition or are, at the very least, in the running to win the business. ISO implements a “system”, which encompasses everything that the company does. Procedures are written for every item that is deemed a task, these procedures are then examined, modified and audited. Once all of the procedures have been examined and compliance confirmed by the assessors, they then give their approval for certification.

Some may claim that the ISO process is a paper chasing exercise that eats up a lot of employee time. The advantages of following, documenting and evidencing your procedures are obvious; however the task of documenting is undeniably large and imposing.

Bodhi Sankar.K