Management systems consulting/auditing

ISQ offers consulting services that enable organizations to certify their management systems, particularly in highly regulated sectors, in order to maintain their competitiveness.

ISQ provides highly specialized resources that will help design and implement management systems that deal with several different standards, or perform internal audits that help depict the organization’s management system status according to the relevant standard requirements.

NP EN ISO 9001 is the most well-known standard for quality management systems, frequently the basis to which several other standards can integrate.

NP ISO 45001 is the standard that describes health and safety management systems, one that has been strongly adopted by industrial organisations, along with the environmental management according to NP EN ISO 14001. Consulting in environmental management systems promotes the analysis and reduction of environmental impacts during the production cycle and on all stages of product processing, considering a life-cycle perspective .

One step further in the environmental approach is the focus on minimizing energy consumption while ensuring the quality of both products and processes. ISQ can assist organizations in this corporate responsibility improvement, implementing systems according to NP EN ISO 50001, the standard for energy management.

Other standards or technical specifications adapted to industrial sectors can also be used, such as IATF 16949 applied to the automotive industry, or food safety management, associated to the NP EN ISO 22000 standard or BRC and IFS references.

Innovation and development management systems following NP 4456, NP 4457, NP 4458 national standards are used by specific industrial or research organizations.

Information safety management systems allow the organizations to ensure the safety of consumer’s and supplier’s data, reducing risks for fraud, loss of information or confidentiality breaches.

ISQ can also implement laboratory management systems based on the ISO/IEC 17025 standard, intended to promote confidence in the operation of laboratories and ensure that they operate impartially and are capable of generating valid results.

Within the social responsibility and sustainability, consulting services can involve analysis and control of social impacts that contribute positively to the development of products and processes and the quality perceived by the community, resulting in duly implemented social and ethical practices. Internationally accepted standard is SA 8000, although ISQ also uses the increasingly relevant GRI – Global Reporting Initiative reference or NP 4552 that focus on reconciling professional, family and personal life for workers.

The standards can be implemented jointly or separately, as they normally share a common structure that allows for a sensible integration of several scopes.

Integrated management systems increase the overall efficiency and reduce time and costs, comparing to different management systems within the same organization.