ISO certification is as valuable as your company’s assets. It signifies that your products/services adhere to the standards set by the ISO. It elaborates on the company’s processes, boosts performance of the workforce and overall productivity, reduces wastes, enhances efficiency, improves customer experience and develops the trust amongst your clients or customers.
What Is The Importance Of ISO Certification For Any Business or Organization?
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), an independent international non-governmental body headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland has laid down certain standards or criterions that an organization must follow for development of its products or services. Standards are interpreted in terms of quality, safety and efficiency.
The ISO certification process of an organization involves determination of the type of certification required for it. There are various ISO certifications like ISO 9001(Quality Management System), ISO 14001(Environmental management), ISO 22000(Food safety), ISO 18001(OHSAS) and so on. Next step involves choosing an ISO Certification Body which is accredited to the ISO. Next, an ISO auditor goes through the various documents related to organization’s policies and procedures. The gap analysis is done by verifying the organization’s documents with the ISO Standards requirement. If any shortcomings are noted, it must be corrected. Later, the auditor will do a final check wherein he checks whether the shortcomings are corrected or not. If it satisfies the required ISO standard, final audit report is done and forwarded to the Authorization body. ISO certification is issued to the organization. Surveillance audits are done each year to make sure that the organization is maintaining the ISO quality standards and there are no substandard products/services. Validity of an ISO Certificate is three(3 )years.
Importance of having an ISO Certification for your Business: -
The key to quality and efficiency is professionalism. Following the principles and ethics of the organization is of foremost importance for any employee. Your organization can be a top competitor at your domain.
The Management and staffs become more knowledgeable about the various procedures involved in smooth running of the organization and creates more resourceful environment.
The processes, procedures involved in production are simplified and the responsibilities are equally distributed amongst the staff. Efficient
Consumer confidence enhances when your product exactly matches the consumers’ expectations. Be it in terms of quality, safety, eco-friendliness and reliability. Better quality ensures little to no complaints from the consumers. When the quality control management of the organization is good, you get to know what your consumer needs and always strive to meet that demand which in turn enhances trust and loyalty.
Your organization gains professional status amongst the public and gets worldwide recognition, thereby enhancing its brand value.
It develops a sense of trust amongst the consumers that your products/services consistently are of the required standards and there are no irregularities or compromises in the quality.
If a product/service is ISO certified, then it is reliable and trustworthy, its brand value increases, there by people consistently buy it which enhances the revenue of the organization and the organization becomes profitable.
Trade barriers between the countries will be broken if your organization is ISO certified.
Import and export of various resources becomes easy if there are no trade barriers. Certain raw materials are cheaper is some countries. So import of those raw materials will be easier and cost of your end products can be priced competitively.
What could be the ISO Certification cost for any Business?
There is no fixed cost for getting an ISO Certification. It varies from one organization to another. Some of the factors that affect costing are the number of employees, type of services offered, risks associated with the company, complexity of the management system and many such factors.
