This has the biggest impact on your audit duration, as it determines the size of your organization and how many day-to-day users of the management system processes there are.
It is also important that we understand the activities that the employees of the organization engage in. This allows us to really understand the activities you conduct as a business.
This is important as it allows us to identify the risk associated with your company's scope and the impact that the potential failure of the management system may have on your organization and the wider industry and community. For example, there is much more risk associated with a quality or environmental management system failure in a power plant than there would be should a similar management system fail in an office environment. Therefore the more detail you can give us, the more accurately we can predict the risk level of your organizations scope.
The number of sites or locations your organization operates from can impact audit duration and the total cost of ISO certification dramatically on some occasions. As a UKAS Accredited Certification Body , we have to ensure that the management system is fully implemented and compliant at all locations within the scope of certification. This means visiting the Head Office location each annum, and some or all of the sites to ensure compliance. When you have multiple locations across the UK or the globe, it may be possible to sample your sites if they are all conducting the same activities.
If, however, you have a unique process at a site, then we will need to audit that location each annum to ensure compliance within the scope. Determining the complexity of your organization is similar to obtaining a house insurance quote. In a similar manner, your organization's complexity can impact your audit duration and quote in a positive or negative manner. It is therefore important that we fully understand the activities that your organization conducts and the context in which it operates as this all leads us to determining your complexity.
So what are these complexity factors that impact your audit duration? Well here are just a few to give you an idea:. All of these and more can help us determine whether we can reduce your audit duration or whether we need to increase it. Finally, your audit duration may be impacted if you have integrated your management system with another standard. The introduction of Annex SL in , as a common structure for management systems, has enabled and eased the process of integrating management systems and conducting integrated management system audits.
This is because they are able to cover the same clause in both standards at the same time during an internal audit. Similarly, when your NQA auditor comes to audit the management review element, they can save time by auditing both aspects as once, through one collection of processes and documents.
It is therefore important to note that your quote can only be reduced for integration factors if both of the following criteria are met:. A gap analysis is an assessment you can use to determine how close you are to meeting your chosen standard's requirements.
Using gap analysis, you can identify areas for improvement and address them before the real audit, reducing the amount of time auditing will take. If your business has already started implementing ISO standards, a gap analysis could help you reduce the cost of third-party certification.
At NQA, we understand that no one knows your business better than you, so we will always try and meet with you or discuss your specific requirements, management system structure and organizational context to ensure that the quote we supply is as accurate as possible.
If you are interested in finding out the cost of gaining certification, please call to speak with a representative, reach out to us online or fill out our Quote Request Form. Just provide information about your company, the scope of certification and your level of risk or complexity to receive a quick quote or answer a few more questions to request a formal quote.
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