Guidance & Education for Your ISO Management System
We help your organization understand, develop, and maintain its ISO management system. Independent auditors then verify conformity through the certification audit.
Understand What the Standard Requires
ISO requirements become more useful when they are connected to the way your organization actually operates. ISOP helps your team understand the applicable requirements and identify how they relate to your existing processes, people, and responsibilities.
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Understand the applicable ISO requirements
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Identify roles and responsibilities
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Determine what applies to your organization
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Connect requirements to existing business processes
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Build the Management System Around Your Organization
Your ISO management system should support your business, not force your business into a generic structure. G&E helps organize the management system around the processes, responsibilities, and practices your organization already uses while addressing any identified gaps.
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Build around existing operations
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Identify gaps that need to be addressed
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Define process ownership and responsibilities
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Create a system employees can realistically maintain
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Develop and Update Your Documentation
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The management system needs documentation and objective evidence that reflect how the organization operates. ISOP provides guidance for developing or updating the policies, procedures, records, objectives, risks, opportunities, and applicable controls needed to support the system.
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Develop or update policies and procedures
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Identify required records and objective evidence
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Address objectives, risks, opportunities, and controls
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Use ISOP's Proven documentation framework where appropriate
Educate Your People
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A management system works when the people responsible for it understand their roles. G&E transfers practical knowledge to management, process owners, and employees so the organization can operate and maintain its own ISO management system.
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Clarify management responsibilities
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Educate process owners
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Build employee awareness
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Connect everyday activities to conformity and continual improvement
Prepare for Certification
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Before the independent certification audit, the organization needs to demonstrate that its management system is established, being used, and supported by objective evidence. G&E helps your team prepare the system and its people for that next step.
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Complete management review activities
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Organize objective evidence and records
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Address corrective actions and identified gaps
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Prepare for the independent certification audit
New Certification, Transition, or Existing System Support
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Organizations come to ISOP at different stages. Guidance & Education can support a company pursuing certification for the first time, transitioning to a new edition of a standard, improving an existing system, or preparing for surveillance or recertification.
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First-time ISO certification
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Transition to a new edition of an ISO standard
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Improve or rebuild an existing management system
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Prepare for surveillance or recertification
The Outcome: Knowledge Your Organization Can Maintain
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The objective of G&E is not simply to prepare documentation for an audit. It is to leave your organization with a management system aligned with its operations and people who understand how to maintain it over time.
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A management system aligned with your operations
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People who understand their responsibilities
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Documentation that supports how the organization works
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Readiness for certification and future audits
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A foundation for continual improvement
Where Do We Start?
Start with a Complimentary Gap Analysis
The first step is a complimentary Gap Analysis. It helps ISOP understand where your organization stands today, what is already in place, what may need attention, and the appropriate next steps for Guidance & Education.
Have Questions
Before Getting Started?
Not ready for the Gap Analysis? If you have questions about ISO Certification, your organization's needs or ISOP's Guidance and Education Services, Schedule a brief 15-minute introductory call with our team.
Where Do We Start?
Start with a Complimentary Gap Analysis
The first step is a complimentary Gap Analysis. It helps ISOP understand where your organization stands today, what is already in place, what may need attention, and the appropriate next steps for Guidance & Education.
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Complete a short company information form
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Schedule the complimentary Gap Analysis after submitting the form
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Prefer to talk first? Schedule a 15-minute introductory call instead
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