Every company has a management system. Combined certification is a way to get your management system certified to multiple standards in one go. By integrating several standards into one management system, you can eliminate duplication of work.

Purpose

For management system standards there are often a high degree of compatibility between the standards, although they cover different areas. Many organisations chooses to build their management system into one integrated system, covering areas such as quality, health and safety, and the environment.

Benefits

By integrating several standards into one management system, you can eliminate duplication of work. An integrated management system will allow you to keep your documentation simple as you will not have to prepare a complete set of documentation for each individual standard. Whether you choose this integrated system approach or build paralell management systems to cover each area, all of your company’s critical areas can be evaluated and certified in a single combined certification audit.

The challenge is to develop, implement, review and improve systems to enhance business performance and align to developing industry norms. DNV has over 25 years of experience helping organisations realise the benefits of an effective integrated management system. Our systems incorporate current best practices and align safety, environment and quality objectives. We also modify systems to accommodate emerging industry initiatives such as integrating performance metrics for process safety.

Features

The challenge is to develop, implement, review and improve systems to enhance business performance and align to developing industry norms. DNV has over 25 years of experience helping organisations realise the benefits of an effective integrated management system. Our systems incorporate current best practices and align safety, environment and quality objectives. We also modify systems to accommodate emerging industry initiatives such as integrating performance metrics for process safety.

DNV offers two ways for you to combine audits to multiple standards:

• A combined audit occurs when management system audits related to different audit criteria (standards) are conducted simultaneously.

• An integrated audit is the assessment of an integrated management system, which is a single management system that fully or partially integrates the requirements of different audit criteria.

Generally, most organizations choose to combine audits to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, or ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. Many other combinations are possible. This way, organizations that proceed with this step are those who have maturing management systems and who are also considering simplifying their system and lowering their costs.

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