Quality Management

The ISO 9001 Standard is globally recognised to help organisations manage their Quality controls. Quality issues are becoming increasingly important to end-users, and legislation is constantly affecting the way organisations have to do business.

Achieving UKAS-accredited certification to ISO 9001 provides independent assurance to your existing and potential customers and other interested parties that you have appropriate Quality Management controls in place. It can also give you that vital edge over your competitors. ISO 9001 can be applied to companies of all sizes in the private sector, but also to universities, charities, and public sector organisations.

This standard is still at the core of all other management system standards and Siguiente will help you to exploit the benefits of ISO 9001 compliance and provide a framework for continuous improvement in all areas of your organisation.

• A core requirement for ‘doing business’ in both public and private sectors
• Vital for many bids and tender responses
• Demonstrates the ability to  provide products and services that meet customer and applicable regulatory requirements
• Provides a framework for meeting future regulatory requirements
• Perfect for demonstrating to regulators and government a commitment to quality management
• Demonstrates a commitment to high standards and continual improvement

Siguiente consultants will review your organisation’s current Quality Management processes against the requirements of the ISO 9001 Standard, and work with you to develop a plan and implement the necessary controls to achieve compliance with ISO 9001. If required, our consultants will then assist you in ultimately achieving UKAS-accredited ISO 9001 certification.

Are you considering achieving combined certifications for ISO 9001 alongside other Standards such as ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 14001 (Environment) or ISO 45001 (Health & Safety) for example?  Do you already have certification to other ISO Standards and want to integrate ISO 9001 requirements with them?  Siguiente consultants specialise in this combined approach, that is, implementing Integrated Management Systems.

For organisations that need to achieve two or more ISO standards, there are significant advantages in implementing these standards in parallel rather than taking a phased approach, in particular, the internal and external incremental costs can be significantly reduced. There are also significant resource economies to be achieved with projects addressing multiple ISO standards e.g. one gap analysis, one implementation programme, less potential for duplication and more effective integration of your management systems. Maintenance of an integrated management system is also more efficient in terms of audits, management review, documentation, and continued assessment.

To find out more about our ISO 9001 certification process, please click here.

If you already have ISO 9001 certification, please click here to find out more about how we can help you maintain and improve your existing management system.

To see some of our clients for whom we have helped achieve ISO Certification, please click here?

Since 2007, Siguiente consultants have been instilling absolute quality into the delivery processes of a huge range of organisations, from SMEs to large corporates. Our team of qualified professionals including CISSP, PCI Security Standards Council QSA, MBCI, GDPR, IEMA, ESOS and CMIOSH qualified consultants) have developed and led UKAS accredited ISO and other standards-based service improvement programmes for private and public-sector organisations across the UK, EMEA, US and beyond, from 5 to over 20,000 people businesses.

Our knowledge and experience across a broad base of management and technical Standards make us uniquely equipped to help organisations to develop a quality management system and integrate with existing management systems to achieve all the associated economies and efficiencies in the system design, implementation and maintenance.

This experience, and the huge success of both the project delivery and maintenance phases of our standards-based practices, has been firmly based on two key principles: the ability of Siguiente consultants to look beyond the standard in question and identify, define and align with the real business drivers of our customers, and our innate ability to become one with our customer’s own management teams.