Every company will have a different type of experience. The major customer get the ISO certificate sooner, you may have different experience rather you simply get ISO certificate for your organization, implement the standard and improve the customer satisfaction. Many organization hire ISO consultants to help them through the certification process. For many organizations do not have enough time to go through the real process of ISO process.
An ISO certification process generally gets complicated depends up on the size of the company. If it is a bigger company more people are involved, more data’s and records should be created. For large organizations it is better to hire an ISO consultant who is experienced with ISO standards, as a lot of time will be needed to implement the ISO standard and running.
For smaller organizations, though, the quality system implementation is simpler, and may possibly be done by the company representative or employee.
How long will take to get ISO? Well, that depends up on implementation of ISO standards, the size of company and the total number of employees. There are companies who concentrated only get certification as quickly. But some company having real effort to get the benefit of ISO and value added to the company.
Below are the steps involved in ISO certification process:
First of all decide it what kind of certification you required in your organization.
Is any particular department or are should concentrate? Or simply showing in the name boards that you are ISO Certified Company (These are not correct reason to get ISO). Prepare ISO documents according to ISO standards and mange the quality system. First of all create documentation with basic manuals and procedures. Some of the companies having the forms for quality system otherwise you can purchase the manual through online. Those manuals and procedures are prepared by experienced ISO Consultants over a period. The template can be a model and prepare in accordance with current requirements and modification
ISO Training
For successful implementation of ISO everyone should be get training. And the people should get training on their relevant areas and should clear about job responsibilities. That means everyone should know how ISO works in the company, customer satisfaction and goal of the company. Appoint a consultant; there are many ISO consultants available. Some of the consultants may auditors and some of them are employees. And the registrar will review all the documents and identify the problems. They will help you to improve the quality. Finally your company get ISO certification.
