Integrated Management System Certification to ISO9001:/2008 , ISO14001:2004 / OHSAS 18001:2007
More and more organizations are inclined towards adopting integration of various management systems like Quality, Environment and Health & safety management System, since using separate management systems within one organization is clearly time-consuming, expensive and inefficient. Also, these management systems follow a process-based approach and have considerable similarly of elements with one another (eg.) ISO 9001:2008(Quality), ISO 14001:2004 (Environment) and OHSAS 18001:2007 (Health & Safety), the integration of multi disciplinary systems into a single documented system helps organizations to improve the health of their business.
The benefits of implementing integrated management system are many, but mainly it can reduce overall management systems cost by streamlining the total processes involved. Certification of integrated system should be seen as an added value as it should "Keep People on their toes" in terms of three disciplines: Quality, Environment & Safety.
Auditing of Integrated Management System poses great challenges to the auditors as they not only needs to have appropriate competence to the respective management systems, they also need to ensure that the requirements for certification of each system are compiled, and the audit reports clearly identify the elements audited for each system.