The certifications process is extremely straightforward and can be broken down into six steps, as below:

ISO Certifications

Questionnaire:

We ask you to complete our certification questionnaire (two-page document) to give us information about your organisation. Simply complete as much as you can. You can complete and submit this questionnaire online now.

ISO Certifications

Quotation:

We prepare an obligation-free fixed price quotation from the information that we have gathered from the questionnaire.

ISO 27001:2013 Certifications

Application

If you wish to accept our proposal we require you to complete a one page “application” form and return it to us. You are then logged into our database and become a client of International Certifications. Once the quotation is accepted by the client, the acceptance will be acknowledged.

ECAS Certifications

Pre-assessment form:

After we log you in as a client we send you a pre-assessment form that you must complete and send back to us. This form gives us more information about your organisation, i.e. when you expect to be ready for your stage 1 audit. The Audit Team will be nominated and the client will be contacted to arrange a Stage 1 audit.

Awareness Training at ECAS Certifications

Stage 1 Assessment:

We conduct a stage 1 assessment where we review your management system documentation to ensure it is in full compliance with the chosen standard(s). We also do a review to ensure that you are fully prepared for the full stage 2 certification assessment. A full report will be prepared and forwarded to you after the assessment.

ECAS Certifications

Stage 2 certification assessment:

Once we are satisfied that your documentation meets the necessary requirements, we conduct a full on-site audit of your management system. In very basic terms – “we check to see that you do in practice what you say you in your system documentation”. If no major non-conformances are identified during the audit, the information is processed and the organisation becomes certified to the chosen standard. Once the organisation is certified we then conduct surveillance audits every six or twelve months.