Publicizing your ISO 9001:2008 or ISO 14001:2004 certification
Table of contents
- Introduction
- In brief
- ISO's logo
- Be precise !
- Certification, registration and accreditation
- The little difference that means a lot
- Process, not product standards
- Scope of certification
Scope
of certification
ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications are specific. The certificate of conformity to the standard issued by your certification body specifies the scope (the extent) of activity for which the certificate is issued. Therefore, when announcing your ISO 9001:2008 or ISO 14001:2004 certification in a press release, or in referring to it in media such as marketing or product brochures, or on Web sites, you should specify the scope of your organization’s activities covered by the certification.
If only part of your organization’s processes are covered by a certification, or only some of its business units or sites, it is unacceptable to mislead people by giving the impression that the whole organization has been certified for all its activities and processes, or for all its geographical locations.
Remember !
ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certificates are issued for scopes of activity, which are specified on the certificate. You should be just as specific when publicizing that certification. Do not misrepresent the scope (the extent) of the certification as far as either activity or geographic location is concerned.
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