Gromarks Certification & Inspection

ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification enables you to demonstrate your commitment to quality and customer satisfaction, as well as continuously improving your company’s operations. The 2015 version represents the best practices in quality management and the standard is the preferred solution for organisations worldwide.

ISO 9001:2015 continues to require documented procedures or references to them. Documentation requirements are much less prescriptive and left more to the organisation to define its own needs. Overall, the effect of the requirements of the standard is to reduce the instances where documented procedures are mandatory and to allow the organisation the freedom to determine the type and extent of documentation needed to support the operation of the processes that make up the quality management system.

> Establishes and streamlines processes through process documentation
> Improves and establishes training processes
> Defines roles and responsibilities
> Greatly increases operational efficiency
> Increases ability to troubleshoot
> Develops and builds relationships that help to retain existing customers
> Provides advantages over competitors that aren’t certified ISO 9001:2015
> Builds opportunities for global commerce with international recognition
> Improves customer relations
> Improves relationships with suppliers due to clear, concise production standards· Provides basis for consistent and fact-based decision making
> Carefully planned improvements, based on documentation and analysis
> Provides for regular audits/reviews of performance

> Increases productivity
> Maximizes quality
> Increases revenue
> Improves employee morale and satisfaction
> Saves time and money
> Enhances ability to attract new customers that have adopted requirements for certification
> Improves accountability of management
> Increases employees’ understanding of their roles in success of their work and the company

In September 2015 ISO published the revised version of ISO 14001. It has a higher level of compatibility with other management system standards, such as ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 as a result of a new common structure which also makes integrating into a single management system far easier than before.

The Standard provides guidance to organisations for determining those environmental issues and ‘aspects’ associated with their activities, to manage them most effectively and measure Environmental Management performance. The standard contains no specific performance requirements as benchmarks.

ISO 14001:2015 contains the core elements for an effective Environmental Management System. It can be applied to both service and manufacturing businesses. The standard requires a company to define environmental objectives and targets, and the management system necessary to attain these targets. The standard requires that the company adheres to that system’s processes, procedures, and activities. Some key concepts of the standard are:

> Context of the Organization
> Leadership
> Strategic Environmental Management
> Risks and Opportunities
> Life-Cycle Perspective

Elements of an effective environmental system can be integrated with other management requirements to assist organisations to achieve their environmental and business-specific goals. ISO 14001 requires companies to commit to prevention of pollution and continuous improvement as part of the normal management cycle.

> Certification – We provide assessment and certification to ISO 14001.
> Gap Analysis – We offer gap analysis and preliminary assessments to prepare you for certification.
> Training – We will help you interpret the new concepts and understand the changes. U&T provides on-site introduction and internal audit
    training which will prepare you and your staff prior to and after the ISO 14001 certification process.