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Every business needs solid foundations to build on to be successful, similar to a house; without a solid foundation, the walls will collapse.

The first step and the most important is ISO 9001 Quality Management System. A Quality Management System (QMS) provides the foundations to formalise all your document processes, procedures, and responsibilities for achieving quality policies and objectives for your organisation.

The benefits of implementing a QMS includes:

Defining, improving, and controlling processes,
Reducing waste,
Preventing mistakes,
Lowering costs,
Facilitating and identifying training opportunities,
Engaging staff,
Setting organisation-wide direction, and
Communicating a readiness to produce consistent results

Integrated Management System

Provides the foundations to hold your document systems together

An Integrated Management System (IMS) provides the foundations to hold your document systems (the walls) together like glue; combining all aspects of the organisation’s systems, processes and Standards into one smart system. This combination allows a business to streamline its day to day processes effectively.

With an IMS, your management systems work together; each function aligned behind a single goal of improving the performance of the entire organisation.

An IMS can benefit your organisation by:

A point of difference from your competitors,
Greater business credibility and image,
Improved performance,
Eliminate redundancy,
Accountability,
Improved risk management,
Increased customer satisfaction,
Improved participation of employees,

Better internal communication,
Greater efficiency and less waste,
Create a continuous improvement culture,
Optimise processes and resources,
Streamlining maintenance,
Facilitate decision making,
Integrated audits.

An IMS provides a clear, uniform image of your entire organisation, how they impact each other, and the associated risks. Efficiency is gained from less duplication, and it becomes easier to adopt new systems in the future.

ISO Consulting Services

Where to start with building your IMS?

ISO 9001

ISO 9001 Quality Management is the foundation for all Standards.

What is ISO 9001?

ISO 9001 specifies the requirements for organisations that want to ensure continual improvement and meet customers’ needs.
It is specifically designed to serve as a guiding framework for organisations to provide a customer focus approach, in particular to the delivery of qualitative goods and services, which subsequently leads to overall customer satisfaction.
The implementation of an ISO 9001 is a strategic decision for organisations that aspire to improve their overall performance and provide a strong basis for sustainable development opportunities.

ISO 45001

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management ensures that PCBU’s are meeting Workplace Health and Safety requirements.

Why ISO 45001?

Regardless of what industry you are in, accidents that lead to injury or health related issues will always occur. Therefore, whether you are an employee, manager or business owner, you will always share the same goal to minimise the number of casualties at work. ISO 45001 provides you with a framework to identify, control, and prevent work-related injuries.

By obtaining an ISO 45001 certification you will prove that you care about the well-being of employees and that you are continually making efforts to enhance their welfare. Furthermore, you will earn a globally recognized certificate on Occupational Health and Safety Management, which will prove that you are aware of the policies and processes needed to reduce work injuries. You will also gain a competitive advantage by improving your brand’s reputation and increasing your capacity.

ISO 14001

ISO 14001 Environmental Management ensures that you enhance your organisations environmental performance and increase your operational efficiency.

Why ISO 14001?

This framework provides organisations the ability to manage their short-term and long-term processes through the use of efficient resources, and in return have a positive impact on the environment
By obtaining ISO 14001, you will prove to your customers and stakeholders that you are aware of the environmental obligations. You will be implementing a system which not only reduces environmental impacts but also reduces costs and increases efficiency within the organisation. With ISO 14001 your organisation will gain a worldwide recognition which will enable you to grow your business in a sustainable manner.

ISO 20400

ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement ensures that you implement a sustainable procurement system, which takes into account the pillars of sustainable development.

Why ISO 20400?

This framework provides the guidelines on sustainable procurement and assists organisations to improve their social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
By obtaining ISO 20400 your organisation will be able to ensure key sustainability considerations, integrate sustainability into procurement policy and strategy, manage risks and opportunities, plan procurement processes, and measure and improve the performance of sustainable procurement.
Throughout all these instances, the engagement of stakeholders is just as important in order for the sustainable procurement initiatives to be successful. Therefore, considerable attention is given to the engagement of stakeholders throughout the supply chain.

ISO 31000

ISO 31000 Risk Management ensures that your organisation undertakes coordinated activities to direct and control the organisation with regard to risk.

Why ISO 31000?

This framework provides a set of principles and processes, which helps organisations take a proactive approach to risks that they face and to develop, implement and continuously improve its risk management strategies.
The Risk Management process involves following five steps that identify circumstances, detect risk-associated hazards, assess and determine the risk, control evaluated risks, and review the impact of the risk.

Managing risk is crucial for organizations – it helps to establish necessary steps so to remain resilient and develop a plan of action and strategies which can eliminate or reduce the impacts of risks

ISO 22301

ISO 22301 Business Continuity ensures that your organisation is able to respond effectively and promptly when incidents arise, ensuring that your organisation will continue to operate without major impacts and losses.

Why ISO 22301?

This framework provides a set of principles and processes that provides organisations the power of providing a premium level of services to their shareholders no matter the circumstances.
Business Continuity acknowledges you the ability to secure data backups, minimize major losses and maximize the recovery time of critical functions.

A Business Continuity plan within your organization means that you are prepared for the unexpected.

ISO 22320

ISO 22320 Emergency Management ensures that your organisation establishes and enhances its abilities to respond to any type of emergency.

Why ISO 22320?

This framework provides a set of principles and processes, which helps organisations take a proactive approach to mitigate threats and damages and ensures continuity of basic facilities such as water and food supplies, health, rescue services, fuel delivery, and electricity.
Emergency Management ensures that all related parties are on the same page during a disaster in order to minimize the chances of misunderstandings and ensure more effective use of the combined resources.

It encourages developing and implementing incident response measures, to ensure a response, which is suitable to the needs of the affected population

ISO 27001

ISO 27001 Information Security Management provides the requirements for organisations seeking to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an information security management system.

Why ISO 27001?

This framework serves as a guideline towards continually reviewing the safety of your information, which will exemplify reliability and add value to services of your organisation.

Information Security Management assists you to understand the practical approaches that are involved in the implementation of a system that preserves the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information by applying a risk management process.
Organisations will be able to demonstrate that they have the necessary skills to support the process of integrating the information security management system into the organisation’s processes and ensure that the intended outcomes are achieved.

ISO 18788

ISO 18788 Security Operations Management provides guidance for organisations that conduct or contract security operations.

Why ISO 18788?

This framework serves as a guideline for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving a Security Operations Management System.

It enables the constant development of security services while ensuring customer safety and respect for human rights.
This standard demonstrates compliance with laws and regulations, respect for human rights, and the establishment of professional security operations to better meet the customer’s and stakeholder’s needs.

We partner with organisations to implement, maintain, and/or improve their Management Systems to ensure that they are getting the most from their business or that they are certification.

Those organisations that want to take their business to the next level and ensure that they have an enduring business to last a life time, set the foundations for success.

Our Lean-ISO approach assures the system is designed simply and effectively to add value to your business.

Gap Analysis

To determine how closely your Quality Management System is meeting standard requirements. The Gap Analysis report and Project Plan deliverables provide the road map for certification.

ISO Internal Audits

Our ISO internal audits determine the degree of compliance and effectiveness of your Quality Management System. We will assist in planning and conducting audits to provide your system with valuable inputs to continually improve.

Management Representative Assistance

To provide mentoring and guidance to the Management Representative, including preparation for management reviews, corrective action review, risk management planning, customer feedback processes, and Quality Management System planning.

Process Improvements

To improve current systems using the Lean-ISO approach. Value-stream mapping is used to streamline and improve the effectiveness of the process.

Supplier Audits

To evaluate your suppliers to assure appropriate quality systems are in place to enable them to meet your needs consistently.

Business Consulting

It is often said that you don’t get in shape with only one visit to the gym. Likewise, our philosophy is that real results in the pursuit of excellence require integrated management development solutions

The challenge of team productivity is the way that the “how” of communication varies according to behavioural styles. The way communication is handled in your business can start to have a flow on effect from basic operational issues right through to senior management.

Team Training

Core Security Group offers a selected range of training programs tailored toward delivery success. By focusing your training on managers you can a quickly asses which skills are in most need of training and development.

The case for outsourcing consultants for your company

While there is a clear need for internal auditors and trainers, you need to decide whether to create your own internal audit and training function or use the services of an external consultancy.

You can focus your attention on your core business activities – the activities that make you money.
You will find it easier to buy in the services of an expert than it is to recruit and employ an expert, therefore creating a better return on investment for your money.
Specialist consultancy firms can give you the range of skills that you won’t find in one person. For example, you may not only need an auditor but also a trainer, human resources expert, or risk assessment analyst.
When you employ a specialist you create a reliance on that person. When that person leaves, you suffer disruption to your business while you try to replace that expertise. This is not an issue when you outsource as each consultant works to a common process.
Employing someone with the experience and qualifications to perform an internal audit role is expensive. If you try to recruit cheaply you will get someone who is poorly qualified; this may cost you in the future. There is a clear cost-benefit argument for outsourcing.
When you outsource you ensure independence and objectivity.
You can monitor easily your relationship with your consultant through confidentiality and service level agreements.

Helping to solve your management issues

Lead your team in development through ongoing change/transformation.

Engage people by coaching for commitment vs. managing for compliance.

Recognise another’s behavioral style and adapt to develop your leadership effectiveness.
Coach those you manage by using their own self-evaluation as the cornerstone for their continuous development.

Understand some key distinctions between planning and implementing, and how to use the process of team coaching methodology to turn strategic plans into actions that deliver results.
Effectively lead others to model more of a coaching culture to align with business objectives.