Management System Certification Services

IQC provides management system certification for the following standards:

ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems:

Quality management systems provide an opportunity to organization to enhance performance and achieve sustainable development and also meet social responsibilities.
Quality management system assist organizations benefits an organization to:

• Achieve consistency in product and service quality meeting customer and statutory / regulatory requirements
• Enhance customer satisfaction;
• Understand risks  and opportunities associated with its context, processes and objectives and plan controls and preventive action;
• Complementary to product and service requirements
• Quality management systems adopt Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and risk-based thinking assisting organizations to plan processes and resources.

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ISO 21001:2018 Educational organizations Management systems for educational organizations

ISO 21001:2018 being the first international management system standard exclusively for educational organizations, for obtaining certification/registration by seeking recognition of their Education Organizational Management Systems. The standard specifies requirements for an Education Organizational Management System for any organization that is involved in teaching, training, research and sharing knowledge, and:

• consider principles of social responsibility
• looking to provide confidence to all relevant stake-holders
• demonstrate commitment in identifying learners education needs, including, special needs – as appropriate and other beneficiaries needs, as applicable,
• addressing risks and opportunities associated with its context and objectives
• planning continual improvement by adoption of risk based thinking in all their processes

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ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems:

We have a responsibility to protect our environment and assure present and future generations to achieve their needs and healthy life. Environmental Management Systems assist organizations to achieve a balance between environment, society and the economy while complying with stringent regulations.

Environmental Management Systems provide an opportunity to an organization to meet interested party expectations for sustainable development, transparency and accountability and achieve enhanced environmental performance and objectives.

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ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems:

Occupational health and safety of workers at place of work is of prime importance to protect society from damage or loss of valuable human life.  Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
provides an opportunity to adopt Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and hazard identification and risk assessment to plan control of work place hazards and improve Occupational Health and Safety performance while complying with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and increased concern of interested parties.

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ISO 22000:2018 food safety management systems:

Food safety management system (ISO22000:2018) provides a preventative approach to identify, prevent and reduce food-borne hazards. This is to minimize the risk of food poisoning and to make food safe for consumption. A well designed FSMS with appropriate control measures can help food establishments comply with food hygiene regulations and ensure that food prepared for sale is hygienic and safe for consumers.

It is important to minimize or eliminate food-borne hazards throughout the food chain and provide safe food at the point of consumption.
Effective implementation of food safety management system along throughout the food chain ensures interactive communication, needs of prerequisite programme, infrastructure planning and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles, validation, traceability and applicable recall techniques. 
Planned and effective implementation of food safety management systems ensure hazard control by having HACCP Plan for operational prerequisite programmes and Critical Control Points which results in delivering a safe product to end users.

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Integrated Management System (IMS)

An Integrated Management System (IMS) integrates all of an organization’s systems and processes in to one complete framework, enabling an organization to work as a single unit with unified objectives.

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ISO 13485:2016 Medical devices - Quality management systems

Quality performance of medical devices and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements to planned arrangements are significant aspects in providing reliable quality services to the society and meet customer’s expectations. Medical devices — Quality Management systems provide an opportunity for organizations, to adopt process approach and plan-do-check-act, to effectively plan controls in the life cycle of medical devices comprising  design and development, production, storage and distribution, installation, or servicing and enhance compliance to customer expectations.

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ISO 27001:2013 Information security management systems:

Information security is an important aspect of functioning of an organization to protect confidentiality, integrity, availability of information when required, minimize risk and ensure business continuity by limiting the impact of a security breach through effective implementation of Information security management systems.

A well planned and effective implementation of Information security management systems provide an opportunity to identify the needs and objectives of security requirements and plan by integrating risk management processes to enhance confidence of interested parties.
 

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ISO 37001:2016 Anti-bribery management systems:

Bribery is a serious social, moral, economical and political concern, which undermines good governance, hinders development, distorts competition, erodes justice, undermines human-rights and is an obstacle to the relief of poverty. Anti-bribery management system is a set of requirements and guidelines to develop reasonable and proportionate measures to prevent, detect and respond to bribery, proactively combating bribery in an effective and efficient manner and specifies implementation by the organization of policies, procedures and controls which are reasonable and proportionate to the bribery risks organization faces.

A well planned anti-bribery management system provides an opportunity to identify reasonable and proportionate controls towards ZERO tolerance for bribery, promote trust and confidence in business dealings, promote positive culture, enhance all stake-holders confidence and market acceptance.
 

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Food Safety audits (FSSAI, road map to food safety):

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has recognized Integrated Quality Certification Private Limited, Bengaluru, vide communication dated 15 May 2021 as an auditing agency for audit of Food Business Operators with an objective to strengthen the food safety surveillance system, cultivate and foster the growth of compliance culture licensed under Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 and Food Safety and Standards (Food Safety Auditing) Regulations, 2018. Food Safety and Standards (Food Safety Auditing) Regulations, 2018 have been notified on 28th August 2018 for the same purpose.

FSSAI planned Food Safety Surveillance programme through planned Food Safety Auditing, which will provide an opportunity to strengthen the partnership between Food Business Operators, Central or State Licensing Authority and the community, assuring a safe food to consumers. Exclusion in the Food Safety Surveillance programme is regulatory sampling.   Food Safety Surveillance programme will also reduce the frequent regulatory inspections and encourage self-compliance. Food Business operators, classified by FSSAI for mandatory Food Safety Audits shall plan and coordinate for audit by Integrated Quality Certification Private Ltd as per the agreed frequency. Category / type of food businesses subject to mandatory audit based on risk classification and the frequency of audits are defined by FSSAI.

IQC shall plan and conduct audit and submit the audit report in the format specified by Food Authority to the Food Business Operator immediately after completion of the audit and also to the Central or State Licensing authority within fifteen days. The audit report shall clearly bring out the audit findings including any non-conformities and action to be taken by Food Business Operator. 

we look forward to partnering with food business operators to ensure food safety and food hygiene complying with regulatory requirements through planned inspection and audit programme. Please do write to us for food safety auditing at iqccorporate@iqcglobal.com with the following details,

1. Name of the FBO with complete details (Physical address, contact person name and contact number with email)
2. FSSAI License number
3. Current FSMS certification agency, if any of FBO
4. Scope of activity
5. Number of production lines / Product / services
6. Working hours
7. Manpower / Number of food handlers
8. Area of storage
9. Agency employed for consultancy, if any
10. Agency employed for training, if any
11. Number of branche
12. Weekly Holidays

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WASH - Workplace Assessment for Safety and Hygiene Scheme

nCovid-19 being a global pandemic which has affected communities across the globe with large scale impact on health resulting in fatalities, business, employment, normal day to day life of public, disruption of travel and free movement within the communities. As we are emerging from the situation with plans to revive economy, it is expected that all sections of the society come together to prevent further spread of the virus.

Entities prior to starting up their operations under nCOVID situation or who have started their operations, may plan to have WASH Assessment, to have a status quo check on the conformance to the guidelines stipulated by Ministry of Home Affairs or other government bodies (local, state and national) or industry specific guidelines and ensure safe operations and workplace by safeguaring health and safety of employees, cusotmers, suppliers, all stake-holders and public in general.

WASH standard is applicable for to any Organization / Industry / Business (manufacturing, services, trade etc).

Objective of the standard is to provide a holistic report to the client on the preparedness and processes established with regard to Hygiene and Safety specific to nCovid situation and ensure in the larger interest of the society that compliance is established with regarding requirements stipulated as applicable by Ministry of Home Affairs or relevant local or stage or national body, so that further spreading of the nCovid virus is contained.

For more details on the assessment methodology, please do contact the following and / or dowload the details,

- Mr. Satish. V (gm.op@iqcglobal.com / +91.9620700050)

- Mrs. Sasikala. R (cm@iqcglobal.com / +91.9341414966)

- Mr. Mohammed Umar Ansari (iqcvsindia@gmail.com/ +91.9998531122)

- Mr. Gangadhar Vaddi (bd.hyd@iqcglobal.com / +91.7731939145)

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IS 14489:1998 Audits - Code of practice on Occupational Safety and Health audit

Integrated Quality Certification Private Limited provides auditing services for Occupational Safety and Health to evaluate the effective implementation of safety management systems in compliance with IS 14489:1998 - code of practice on Occupational Safety and Health audit for different organizations by utilizing a team of competent professionals with vast experience in conducting safety audits

Integrated Quality Certification Private Limited provides Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) auditing services for evaluation of workplace safety program effectiveness, compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and gaps in implementation to ensure safety and health in work place.

Integrated Quality Certification Private Limited with accreditation for Quality Management Systems,  ISO 9001:2015, Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, ISO 45001:2018 and Environmental Management Systems, ISO 14001:2015, has adequate competence to conduct EHS audit to meet contractual and  stake holders requirements

EHS audit is a systematic, independent and documented evaluation of the occupational safety and health systems, procedures and obtaining qualitative or quantitative information, records or statements of fact based on objective evidence.

Benefits of EHS audits are:

a. Identification of available functional expertise
b. Unbiased suggestions and actionable directions 
c. Enhanced awareness of workplace safety
d. Contribution to future EHS planning
e. Identify hidden risks and incorrect operational practices prevalent in the organization.
f. Minimize accidents, injury & illness because of enhanced awareness of workplace safety
g. Evaluation of compliance to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements
h. Evaluation of compliance to IS 14489:1998, Code of practice on occupational safety and health or other management system standards
i. Improved reputation and business performance
j. Information for continual improvement
Environment, Health, and Safety audit is a comprehensive evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Management systems with primary focus on  promoting safe work condition and compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements and is not just an identification of hazards. 

Organizations interested for taking up audit as per IS 14489:1998, please contact the following personnel,
Ms. Ramya.N (tm@iqcglobal.com)
Mrs. Sasikala. R (cm@iqcglobal.com )

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IQC conduct audit of following management systems.

1. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points,
2. Good Manufacturing Practices,
3. Good Hygiene Practice,
4. ISO 30000 -Ships and marine technology - Ship recycling management systems - Specifications for management systems for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling facilities
5. ISO 10002 - Customer satisfaction - Guidelines for complaints handling
6. BC Kosher,
7. Project compliance audit,
8. Technical audit comprising the following to add value to client’s procurement activities
   • Vendor assessment
   • Product compliance audit,
   • Vendor capability survey