CERTIFICATION
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IT'S SIMPLE
REQUEST
- Complete the Pinnacle Contact Request Form
- Our Pinnacle Team will contact you and assist you in completing the Initial documentation to ensure an accurate quote and to minimize inefficiencies inherent to the traditional Certifying Bodies processes. You’ll actually speak to our PEOPLE.
ACCEPT
- Sign on the dotted line
- We will assign an auditor
EXECUTE
- Auditor confirmed for scope identified
- Stage 1 Audit- Determine readiness
- Stage 2 Audit- Conduct the audit
CERTIFICATION DECISION
- Upon successful two stage audit, a certification decision is made by Pinnacle
- Certification granted to applicable standard and issued by Pinnacle for a duration of 3 years and must be maintained through an Audit Programme of an annual internal and surveillance audit and three-year recertification audit.
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IS ISO RIGHT FOR YOUR BUSINESS?
Develop, implement, and continuously improve your organization’s culture of safety, health and mental wellbeing.
Heighten your organization’s reputation as a safety leader that meets a benchmark international Occupational Health and Safety Management System Standard.
Identify, assess, and mitigate risk.
Decrease work-related illness and injury frequency, severity and probability
Reduce cost. An unsafe company is an expensive company. Fines, worker compensation premium increases, increased insurance costs, costs of investigations, business continuity interruptions and absenteeism to name a few.
Many Canadian Provinces offer Worker Compensation rebates for companies with ISO 45001 Certifications.
COMMITTED to making ISO 45001 certification more accessible through: People, Process & Technology
Frequently asked questions
ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 165 national standards bodies.
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Pinnacle Certification Audits follow a simple, evidence-based approach: Rational, reliable and reproducible results
Adequacy Audit (AA) (Stage 1 audit)
Stage 1 Audit is a part of the registration process and not an optional activity.
- Assess that the auditee has a documented management system, which is compliant to applied standard.
Registration Audit (RA) (Stage 2 Audit)
The objective of the Registration Audit (Stage 2 Audit) is:
- To confirm that the auditee organization adheres to its own policies, objectives and procedures.
- To conform that the management system of the auditee organization conforms to all the requirements of the current version of respective standard(s), normative document and achieving the organization’s policy & objectives.
- To evaluate compliance to applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Follow-up Audit (FA)
The purpose of follow-up audits is to conduct the follow-up of non-conformance(s) of a auditee organization’s quality management system, identified during a visit, that were determined to require corrective action. Follow-up audit is required where a major non-conformity is raised. Minor non-conformity does not require formal follow-up visit and may be closed off site based on evidence submitted. The time required for follow-up audit shall be determined based on number and nature of major non-conformities issued.
Surveillance Audit (SA)
The registered quality management system should continue to meet the requirements of specific standard and should be managed effectively by the auditee organization. SA is intended to verify the continued effective maintenance of the auditee organization’s quality management system, satisfy the needs of the auditee organization and maintain the integrity of the registration process as a whole.
Re-certification
The purpose of the re-certification audit is confirm the continued and effective management system as a whole is followed and the continued relevance and applicability of the scope of certification, commitment to enhance and maintain overall effectiveness and improvement of the management system and whether the operations of a certified client contributes to the achievement of the clients policy and objective. Re-certification takes places on a Triennial basis.
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Receipt and review of Audit report
The team leader is responsible for submission of audit report documents. This contains at least
client signed audit report, corrective action plan for non-conformances and assessor notes.
All audit reports (Stage 1, Stage 2, routine surveillances, follow-up, special audit, re-certification etc) are reviewed at multiple stages.
The audit reports are reviewed at multiple stages.)
Stage 1 includes administrative review. The submitted set of documents is reviewed for completion (also called administrative review) by Certification Manager.
Stage 2 includes technical review. The audit report (corrected if possible) is submitted to Certification committee member for technical review which includes review of the information provided by the audit team is sufficient with respect to certification requirements, scope of accreditation and effectiveness of corrections and corrective actions are effective for all non conformances raised during the audit.
Stage 3 includes decision making by certification committee chairman. Any audit report requiring issue of certificate (Stage 2 audit, change in scope or address, triennial audit etc) requires review and approval by certification committee chairman.
In case Certification committee chairman is involved in the audit or is not available or has declared conflict with any client, any other director reviews the audit report and takes the decision.
Stage 4 includes further action by the Certification Manager. Certification Manager reviews the decision taken by technical review member and / or certification committee chairman for the following:
- Preparing the certificate as per process detailed below.
- Updating the client data base with changes in client details, NC’s issued in the audit, planning for next audit etc.
- Filing the report in the client file along with all relevant papers like audit notes, corrective actions submitted by client etc. Auditor performance evaluation sheets etc are filed in respective files.
- Verify compliance to all Pinnacle Certification Inc. quality and certification requirements
Certificate preparation and issue
This involves preparation and review of certificate, certificate signature by CEO and updating
the registrar of firms.
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CERTIFICATION IS VALID FOR 3 YEARS
Maintained through annual surveillance audits and 3 yearly recertification audits