ISO Certification In Nepal - Get A Consultation Now/Apply Online

The first step in the process of ISO Certification is to identify the right standard that fits your Organizational Operations. There are various types of ISO certification are available such as listed below:

• ISO 9001 Certification– Quality Management System
• OHSAS 18001 Certification– Occupational Health & Safety Management System
• ISO 27001 Certification – Information Security Management System
• ISO 14001 Certification – Environmental Management System
• ISO 29990 Certification – Learning Services for Non-formal Education and Training
• ISO 22000 Certification – Food Safety Management
• ISO 50001 Certification – Energy Management
• ISO 20000-1 Certification – IT Service Management System

ISO Organization doesn’t issue any certificate or provide conformity assessment. ISO develops & publishes the ISO Standards that are based on the industry’s best-practices and market research.

The organization has to choose the Certification body that can issue the Certificates for your business based on the system evaluation. Be cautious when choosing the CB, cause there are hundreds of fake and non-accredited certificates that can damage your reputation.

Select the best ISO Certification Body based on the following observations. 

• Check for the Accreditation of the Certification Body.
• Verify the details of CB on the respective accreditation body website.
• Accreditation Body must be a member of the IAF (International Accreditation Forum).
• Confirm that the Certification Body operates based on guidelines given by ISO and IAF.
• Check whether they are legally bound to the Accreditation requirements.

If you failed to identify or verify the following details of the Certification body, then you should remember that particular CB is fake and Non-accredited. Confirm the recognized Accreditation Bodies here.

There no fixed Cost for getting ISO Certification. The Charges of ISO Certification are decided based on several factors and all applicable ISO Certification fees are negotiable.

• Size of an organization (Small, Medium and Large)
• Number of workers (Employee Strength)
• Number of Processes (Departments and Verticles).
• The complexity of the Current (Existing) Management System.
• Different ISO Certification Body and Accreditation Body.
• The number of Operational Locations to be Certified.

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Again, there is no fixed or predefined exact timeline for ISO Certification and Implementation process. The Time and duration for ISO Certification in Nepal vary based on the Complexity and Size of the Organization, also depends on the support from the Management Team.

Additionally, Factors that affect the ISO Certification processing Times depend on the – Preparation of Procedures, Policies, Training, and documentation reviews.

For general and most of the cases, the time required for ISO Certification and implementation is as follows,

• Small Enterprises: 15-45 Days
• Medium Enterprises: 30 – 60 Days 
• Large Enterprises: 60 – 90 Days.

If you already implemented the system in your organization and all documentation is in order, the Time for ISO Certification can take up to 7 days to review the system and to get Succesful Certification.

1.Submit an application / Contact agreement

Once the business owner has selected the ISO certification body and ISO standard, the CB and the applicant should agree on a contract. The application should contain the rights and obligations of both parties and includes liability issues, confidentiality, and access rights.

2. Quality Management System Review 

The ISO auditors will verify your quality policies, procedures, and reports identified with different approaches and strategies being followed by the company. The review of the existing Quality system will help to identify the Non-Cofirmities based on the ISO guidelines.

3. Get to action with Action Plans.

After the review of the system by the ISO auditor, found non-conformities will be rectified by preparing the action plan, Organization should conduct an internal audit and verifies the clearance of all non-confirmities, and identify the strategies for continual improvements.

4. Certification Audit 

Initial ISO Certification Audit is partitioned into two classifications Stage 1 and Stage 2. 

a. Onsite Audit: 

The ISO auditor will check all the progressions made by you in the association. At this point attempt to recognize the conceivable non-congruities in your frameworks and methods to the ideal quality administration framework. They will partition these non-similarities into minor and major non-congruities.  Get all these non-similarities adjusted and carefully evaluated according to the ideal quality standards through alteration in the methods and procedures utilized by the association. 

b. Final Audit: 

ISO auditor does the final examination after all the necessary changes are done in the association. The auditor will check whether all the non-congruities have been disposed of or not according to ISO quality standards. Once the ISO audit is fulfilled by the final review, they will prepare the ISO audit report and submit it to the ISO Certification Body. 

5. Finishing the ISO Certification 

After all, the non-conformities are reviewed and every one of the discoveries is submitted in the Final ISO Audit report, the ISO registrar will grant you the ISO certification. 

6. Surveillance Audits 

Surveillance Audit is conducted from time to time, essentially to guarantee that ISO quality standards are being maintained by the organization.