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Hi all,
We have ISO9001, ISO14001 & ISO45001 and currently use BSI as our accreditation body. Is anyone else using a different body, I am finding that BSI have not quite come up to expectations and was wondering if there were any recommendations out there.

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Have used SGS at one company previously, not hugely impressed.

Have used LR (Previously LRQA) at 3 companies and found them good at all 3 and across all standards.

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Thanks Glen,
Our current provider is not meeting our expectations and we are looking at replacing them.

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Out of interest, did you change certification body. and what was wrong with BSI.
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Morning Chris,

We have just had an audit completed (ISO9001 & (ISO45001) and looking at the report our senior management team are confused as to some items brought up as either OFI or comments. One, why were these points not raised in previous audits as it has been a long term shortfall in the system and two, after a 3 day audit there were only 2 minor NC's and 2 OFI's and I know for a fact that the system I am changing is far from complete and there are shortfalls.
Some of the comments on the report have riled the team and they feel that they should have been more thorough in their auditing.

We are still considering moving.
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we are with BSI for ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001.
we have 5 audit days, spread over 3 days with 2 auditors. a common lead auditor and then a different specialist each year. this allows a knowledge of us and our system without loosing the impartiality and the different specialist will spot different things each year.

i'm assuming you have a 3 day audit with 1 auditor covering both standards or do you have a separate audits for each standard ? If separate there will be a lot of time wasted going over the same information, if so you can ask for a combined audit.

Is it always the same auditor or different each year. If the same you can always ask for an alternative auditor, if its different then it is highly likely they will spot different things each year.

fundamentally the audit will only spot check, based on what is observed in the audit, against the criteria so there will be things which they don't spot. If you know that there are things wrong and only got 2 minor NC's then best to look at it as a chance to sort for next year. if things have not been correct previously then they were either lucky in previous years or managed to gloss over the problems by the responses to the auditor.

the number of days allowed for the audit is based on a risk calculator, if you think that they should be going into more depth you can always ask to be re-evaluated and see if the number of days increase and hence the depth of the audit.

Due to the way we now operate our Management System, its quite easy for the auditors to verify the standard information which then does give greater time and scope to dig deeper each year, and the auditor includes document references and versions in the report so that it highlights documentation changes between audits, especially useful if you have different auditors each time. However I know that under our old Management system which had totally separate audits (with two different certification bodies), the depth of the audit was not as deep as a lot of time was taken on the standard items, and finding the evidence.

one tip i've learned through the audits, is always to have the previous audit report open, as under the new standards aligned with Annex SL the information is always asked for in the same order and allows you to get to the standard information quicker, which then gives more time for the operational areas which need more focus.
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I have sometimes used the ISO audits to intentionally raise issues or lead the auditor in a certain direction to highlight things that that are not otherwise being fixed internally.
Often the focus given by a Minor NC is enough for the responsible manager/director in the company to fix issues that otherwise are being neglected Or brushed under the carpet.
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got to admit, i've done the same on occasions....
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