Contractor Management on your Premises
Contractor Management Contractor Management is concerned with ensuring that when you hire a contractor to undertake work on your behalf, health and safety issues are properly managed in terms of how they affect the contractor’s [...]
ISO 9001 Audit Time Calculation
It is often asked how a Certification Body comes up with the ISO 9001 audit time calculation. The time is established by the IAF (International Accreditation Forum) who oversee the ISO standard and help to [...]
Stage 1 Audit Preparation
What is a Stage 1 Assessment? The stage 1 audit requirement has been in place for around 8 years now, it came in as a mandatory requirement with ISO 17021 in 2011 although it [...]
Brexit: Auva Hosting Free Brexit Impact Workshop
AUVA Certification is to host a workshop on the impact of Brexit in the certification industry and businesses with UKAS in attendance. I am sure we will all agree that none of us knows exactly [...]
What is an ISO Certification Reassessment?
A lot of organisations are not clear on what is the purpose of an ISO Certification reassessment (sometimes referred to a recertification audit). A reassessment will occur every 3 years and you will notice that [...]
Are your ISO Certification Fees Increasing?
It is round this time of year (1st quarter) that a lot of the Certification Bodies will increase their ISO certification fees, the larger ones especially tend to increase their prices by 3-5% year-on-year even [...]
Transfer ISO Certification
Why Transfer your ISO Certification? Many organisations with ISO Certification are unaware that you can transfer your ISO Certification from one Certification Body to another at any stage you wish, you are not tied into [...]
ISO Audit Findings
Types of Non-conformances During ISO standard assessments the auditors are not only looking for conformity against requirements but they are also looking for non-conformances against requirements. There is a possibility that a number of different [...]
Priti Patel hails success of Auva Certification
On 11th October Priti Patel, the MP for Witham and UK Home Secretary, visited Auva Certification Ltd in Little Braxted to help the firm celebrate its being awarded a certificate of accreditation from the [...]
First ISO Certificate Presentations Taking Place
Today marks the first Auva ISO Certificate presentation being held in our offices with some special guests making the presentations. We will be presenting some of our clients with their ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and [...]
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