Standards 9001 – 14001 – 22000
Standards
ISO 9001 2015
By adopting an approach that starts out to implement more efficient working practices and focuses on the business objectives of the organisation, you will achieve a system that will help and support your staff, and improve your levels of customer satisfaction.
- Provides senior management with an efficient management process
- Sets out areas of responsibility across the organisation
- Mandatory if you want to tender for some public sector work
- Highlights deficiencies
- Reduces your costs
- Provides continuous assessment and improvement
- Marketing opportunities
ISO 14001 2015
- Cost savings in waste, recycling and consumption
- Advantage over competitors when tendering for business
- Management of environmental risks
- Compliance with individual countries environmental regulations
- Demonstrates your commitment to improving the environment
- Shows you are a responsible future focused organisation
- Can reduce insurance cover costs
- Can increase employee engagement in the knowledge that they are working in an environmentally friendly organisation
OHSAS 18001 :2007
Managing occupational health and safety in the workplace brings numerous benefits to all kinds and sizes of organizations.
- OHSAS 18001 provides a system to identify and effectively manage occupational health and safety hazards in order to minimize health and safety risk.
- It provides tools and techniques to identify potential causes of accidents and helps organizations improve employee awareness of risks.
- Incident and accident rates are reduced as a consequence of better control of work-related risks and an improved performance monitoring.
- Improves the incident investigation process.
- Implementing this standard will show employees that an organization is committed to keeping them safe, therefore improving employee motivation, retention and satisfaction.
ISO 22000 2005
Implementing ISO 22000 in an organization results in a more robust food safety management system and potential access to new market opportunities.
- Internationally-recognized, harmonized standard for controlling food safety hazards
- Flexibility, allowing it to be applied to all organizations in the food supply chain, thus encouraging cooperation in addressing food safety hazards
- Provides a framework for management commitment, communication with suppliers and customers, and continuous improvement of the food safety system
- Demonstrates an organization’s commitment to food safety
ISO 13485 2012
For medical manufacturers seeking access to new markets, conformity with regulatory requirements is most often a prerequisite.
- Expanded market access .
- Reduced cost of sales – Your certification establishes your company’s credibility and commitment to quality. Because the task of explaining the specifics and demonstrating the effectiveness of your quality system is more straightforward, it takes less time to earn your prospective customers’ trust and confidence.
- Improved performance –
HALAL
Halal is an Arabic word means allowed or permitted by Islamic Law, in relation to food, Halal does not simply means no pork and no alcohol. Halal in terms of food means that food must be:
- Animals that are allowed and been slaughtered according to Islamic Law, not killed by strangulation or killed by wild animals.
- Does not stem from or consists any part or item from animals that are forbidden (pig, carrion, having claws, talons or fangs, etc.) to Muslims by Islamic Law.
- Food, be it animal, vegetable, fruit or grain must be Tayyib (healthy) and does not contain any substance that is considered impure (alcohol) in Islamic Law.
- Food that is prepared, processed or manufactured using equipment or utensils that are free from impurities as defined by Islamic Law.
- Food when prepared, processed, manufactured, packaged, stored or transported does not come in contact with or stored near any food that is forbidden and contain impurities as defined by Islamic Law.
- As a confirmation for Muslim customers that the food served is Halal and is in accordance with Islamic Law.
- Assure customers that the food served is Halal and healthy and the premise’s hygiene and sanitation procedures are in top-notch.
- Widen the range of customers by attracting Muslim customers and non-Muslim who are Halal consumers.
- Increase a restaurant’s revenue and enhance its marketability especially to Halal consumers.
- If planning to export, the Halal certificate will help to assure Halal consumers in importing countries.
CE marking
CE Marking is the symbol . The letters “CE” are the abbreviation of French phrase “Conformité Européene” which literally means “European Conformity”. The term initially used was “EC Mark” and it was officially replaced by “CE Marking” in the Directive 93/68/EEC in 1993. “CE Marking” is now used in all EU official documents.Along with more directives’ becoming effective, more and more products are required to bear the CE Marking for gaining access to the EFTA & European Union market. However, many non-EU exporters are still unaware of or unsure about this fact and its impact on their business.
General principles of the CE marking:
- The CE marking shall be affixed only by the manufacturer or his authorised representative.
- The CE marking shall be affixed only to products to which its affixing is provided for by specific Community harmonisation legislation, and shall not be affixed to any other product.
- By affixing or having affixed the CE marking, the manufacturer indicates that he takes responsibility for the conformity of the product with all applicable requirements set out in the relevant Community harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing.
- The CE marking shall be the only marking which attests the conformity of the product with the applicable requirements of the relevant Community harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing.
- The affixing to a product of markings, signs or inscriptions which are likely to mislead third parties regarding the meaning or form of the CE marking shall be prohibited. Any other marking may be affixed to the product provided that the visibility, legibility and meaning of the CE marking is not thereby impaired.
Our company provides consultancy services for implementing these standards:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 22000
- ISO 50000
- ISO 14385
- ISO 18001
- HALAL
- Οδηγίες CE
- Καθώς και για τα εθνικά ΕΛΟΤ 1429, ΕΛΟΤ 1435 κλπ