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Assessment, Auditing and Certification
Enhance your business through world-leading audits and certification.
Regardless of your industry, it is essential to validate that your services, products and processes meet the highest performance, quality and safety standards while adhering to sustainability practices.
Our Assessment, Auditing and Certification services demonstrate your commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, proving your integrity and adherence to numerous regulations and legislation.
Achieve compliance, earn trust, reduce costs and risks.
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, Sustainability Reports, EGS, AS 9100 series, ISO 22301, ISO 13485, ISO 45003, ISO 55001
Products & services
ISO 45003 Certification – Psychological Health and Safety at Work
Enhance your organisation’s occupational health and safety (OH&S) and promote worker well-being with SGS's ISO 45003 services. In today's fast-paced work environments, safeguarding employee well-being is more crucial than ever. ISO 45003 offers a comprehensive framework to expand your existing occupational health and safety program, helping you mitigate psychosocial risks and promote overall well-being. By implementing these guidelines, organisations can create a culture that prioritises job satisfaction and boosts productivity, ensuring a safer, more supportive environment for all employees. We provide training, gap assessments, auditing, and benchmarking to support your journey toward ISO 45003 conformance.
ISO 22301 Certification – Business Continuity Management Systems
Get support on your journey to ISO 22301 certification and ensure business continuity and resilience. Learn more. An ISO 22301 certification audit from SGS will help you to ensure that your organisation has a solid business continuity management system (BCMS) in place. Every organisation will need to respond to an incident that disrupts daily business operations. Therefore, a successful BCMS is essential. The standard specifies the requirements for implementing, maintaining and improving a BCMS to protect against, reduce the impact of, respond to and recover from disruptions. Long-term benefits of ISO 22301 certification include: • Implement organisation-wide identification and understanding of critical business processes and the impact of disruptions • Proactively minimise impact • Increase resilience levels and recovery capabilities, as well as ensure that the business survives • Minimise downtime during incidents and improve recovery time(s) • Gain an advantage over less resilient competitors • Demonstrate resilience to customers, suppliers, media and stakeholders, especially during crisis conditions
Social Audits
Demonstrate your commitment to crucial social aspects with SGS’s range of associated services. Our strong technical background translates into the approval to conduct social responsibility assessments against several internationally recognized collaborative programs. Our network of over 800 experienced auditors enrolled in the Association of Social Compliance Auditors (APSCA) scheme, supported by a global team of corporate social responsibility experts, can tailor solutions to your individual program needs. As the leading industry association, APSCA enhances our auditing team’s professionalism, consistency and credibility, ensuring the highest quality of social compliance assessments. We help you: • Instill trust in customers and stakeholders • Prepare to meet industry and customer requirements • Benefit from a large pool of auditors, located in key production hubs • Meet a vast variety of customer requirements through numerous scheme approvals
ISO/IEC 27001 Certification – Information Security Management System
Demonstrate your commitment to information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection with an audit against ISO/IEC 27001 requirements. Businesses need to remain interconnected while ensuring that information is timely and accurate, communications are clear, and confidentiality is maintained. A robust information security management system (ISMS) enables you to exploit interconnectivity while managing information security, cybersecurity and privacy risks. ISO/IEC 27001 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an ISMS. It also sets out the requirements for assessing and treating cyber risks, based on your specific needs. Achieving ISO/IEC 27001 certification demonstrates your commitment to information security and assures clients and other partners that you are serious about protecting information under your control. KEY BENEFITS • Enhanced credibility • Greater awareness of information security within the organization • Reduced risk of fraud, information loss and disclosure • New business opportunities with security-conscious customers • Demonstration of integrity to your system • Better preparedness for the next security event or incident
ISO 50001 Certification – Energy Management Systems
Energise your energy performance, cut costs and meet and exceed customer expectations with an ISO 50001 audit from SGS. ISO 50001 is the foremost energy management system (EnMS) standard, with over 38,000 certificates issued. It is essential for enhancing energy performance and reducing costs, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other environmental impacts. The framework helps you establish, implement, maintain and enhance an EnMS to improve energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and consumption, through a systematic approach. ISO 50001 is compatible with other ISO management system standards and adopts the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model for continual improvement. What are the benefits of ISO 50001 certification? • Raise awareness, implement energy-saving opportunities and reduce energy costs • Reduce your carbon footprint and achieve goals • Simultaneously monitor KPIs and baselines • Take control of energy use • Contribute to many UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
ISO 45001 Certification – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
Demonstrate your commitment to occupational health and safety and reduce organisational risk with an ISO 45001 audit from SGS. SO 45001 is a globally recognised occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) standard, with over 540,000 certificates issued. It is essential for managing risks, enhancing OHS performance and protecting your people, stakeholders and reputation. The standard establishes criteria for OHS policy, objectives, planning, implementation, operation, auditing and review. Key elements include leadership commitment, worker participation, hazard identification and risk assessment, legal and regulatory compliance, emergency planning, incident investigation and continual improvement. ISO 45001 utilises the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology to systematically manage health and safety risks. What are the benefits of ISO 45001 certification? • Adopt a tried and tested OHS framework • Protect people and reinforce reputation • Comply with related regulations • Strengthen resilience and protect your future • Continually improve and evolve OHS • Contribute to many UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
ISO 14001 Certification – Environmental Management Systems
Reduce your organisation’s environmental impact with an ISO 14001 audit from SGS. ISO 14001 is the world’s leading environmental management system (EMS) standard, with over 670,000 certificates issued. It is essential for taking proactive measures to minimize your environmental footprint, comply with relevant legislation and achieve environmental objectives. The framework encompasses various aspects, from resource usage and waste management to monitoring environmental performance and stakeholder engagement in environmental commitments. ISO 14001 certification shows that you have implemented a robust EMS and are continually improving your environmental performance. What are the benefits of ISO 14001 certification? • Enhance environmental performance and save money • Strengthen regulatory compliance • Better risk management • Achieve operational excellence • Improve stakeholder and customer trust • Contribute to many UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
ISO 9001 Certification – Quality Management Systems
Improve performance and demonstrate consistently high-quality products and services with an ISO 9001 audit from SGS. ISO 9001 is the world’s leading quality management system (QMS) standard, with over 1.47 million certificates issued. It is essential for boosting organisational success, profits and market potential. The standard specifies the requirements for establishing a QMS to achieve quality policies and objectives while operating to meet customer and stakeholder needs and applicable laws and regulations. ISO 9001 certification demonstrates your commitment to quality, effective processes, training staff and producing impeccable products or services. What are the benefits of ISO 9001 certification? • Enhance product/service quality and customer confidence • Effective complaint resolution • Pinpoint process improvements • Robust risk management and reduction • Energise employee engagement • Ongoing optimization for future success • Contribute to many UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Raising Awareness of Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
Organisations across all sectors are facing a growing challenge: the rising impact of poor mental health on employees, business performance and overall safety. To support employers, SGS is hosting an awareness webinar a ISO 45003:2021
SGS - Your Guide to ISO 9001
The webinar explores the evolution of ISO 9001, breaking down how the standard has adapted to meet the needs of modern organisations. Viewers will gain a practical overview of the current requirements.