Certification Services
We offer certification for the following:
- ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems) (SANAS accredited);
- ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) (SANAS accredited); and
- OHSAS 18001 (Health and Safety Management Systems).
Client Needs
Organisations are always striving towards improved management and performance, which is driven by increasingly concerned customers and more informed stakeholders. Certifiable international standards provide specifications for ensuring alignment of management systems internationally.
Value Proposition
Certification provided by a reputable certification body will lead to improvement in:
- organisational discipline;
- management commitment;
- management efficiency; and
- independent assurance to authorities, customers or other stakeholders.
Benefits to be obtained from certification include:
- Providing management with comfort on prevailing management practices;
- Assuring customers and other stakeholders of commitment to sound management practices;
- Improving and maintaining good relations with relevant stakeholders;
- Satisfying investor criteria and improving access to capital and financing;
- Enhancing reputation and market share;
- Meeting vendor certification criteria;
- Improving cost control;
- Reducing incidents that result in liability;
- Demonstrating improved transparency;
- Conserving input materials and energy;
- Facilitating the ability to obtain legal permits and authorisations;
- Applicable to employees and sub-contractors on-site, from top to bottom; and
- Fostering development and sharing of management system solutions.
Our strengths
- Experienced assessors, dedicated to put the realisation of your business goals and your stakeholders first;
- Assessors are qualified and have practical workplace experience (specific industry specialists);
- Support and assistance in continuous performance improvements in order to achieve business excellence;
- Comprehensive monitoring system to ensure continuous improvement of our service delivery;
- Certification operational and co-ordination experience and support;
- Understanding your business and industry;
- Quality through partnership;
- Our global reputation for being one of the world’s largest and most respected assurance services providers.
Top management understands the importance of impartiality in carrying out its management system certification activities and will manage conflict of interest and ensures the objectivity.
International RecognitionInternational recognition and/or acceptance of our certificates have been established through the multilateral European Accreditation of Certification (EAC) agreement of which SANAS is a co-signatory, This means that your certification is acknowledged and accepted in European countries.
The SANAS accreditation, as well as the use of their logo, places our certification on an equal footing with any certification granted by a European certifier. This will further enhance our acceptability and good reputation worldwide. It will create even greater confidence between certified organisations and their clients.
To view our certification process click here.
Accredited to:
ISO 17021:2006: Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems.
Client complaints and appeals:
Clients can appeal against decisions and lodge complaints with either:
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Herman Zulch
Tel: +27 11 797 4745, or
The chairperson for the Committee of Interested Parties. Marba Visagie at marba@dti.pwv.gov.za
