Product Certification Compliance to Industry Standards.
BSI: your first choice for Testing and Certification. The importance of product compliance
Legal Requirements Access to Project Tenders Cost Control Competitive Advantage
Every business has an Inclusion on pre-approved Successful managers Customers prefer suppliers, obligation to ensure “fitness tenderer lists for specific understand the need to and will specify products, for purpose” of the products Government projects and guard against product whose production and it supplies or uses, so that private developments will deficiencies that can result management have been public safety and a safe require your business to in substantial costs of independently audited and workplace is ensured, and demonstrate capability repair, re-supply, rebuild accredited to comply with the product performs as and reliability. Third party and rehabilitation as well the standards that govern intended. accreditation of the as litigation, regulatory in the markets you target. products you intend to penalties and lost use on these projects will reputation. support your commercial credibility in satisfying the industry specifiers and your intended customers.
Benefits BSI brings as your certification partner
Growth: Benchmark and Kitemark are regarded globally as manufacture product or components or wherever your premier brands that immediately convey reliable quality to suppliers are located, we can assist. specifiers and purchasers in new markets. Trustworthy: Accredited by JAS-ANZ and UKAS as an Complete solution: You deal with a single entity that independent certification body to guarantee confidential provides accreditation, testing, standards and training, in and impartial service, and provide you with reliable objective Quality, Safety, Environment and Information Security to guidance. help you manage risk and performance. Reputable and Experienced: World’s first national Standards Service Excellence: Over 10,000 experts from many body, founding member of ISO, with over 100,000 business industries to assist you with new products, standards and locations certified by BSI throughout the last 100 years. applications. Our Royal Charter: Our earnings are re-invested to improve Global: Active in 172 countries with over 80,000 clients industry, government and community. worldwide. Wherever you operate your business,
Manage risk and grow your business with BSI's choice of certification programs
BSI is committed to helping manufacturers meet and Where are you on your journey? demonstrate compliance with relevant international Engaging with BSI early can help you assess alternative standards and specifications. We have a full suite of testing product variables and to realize the full potential and services and partner laboratories in Australia, UK, China, commercial advantage of certification. Middle East and Turkey, and industry experts, to help you get your products expediently to your identified markets.
2 Call: 1300 730 134 Email: [email protected] Visit: bsigroup.com/en-au Manage your product quality with us
Personal Protective Construction products Plumbing Equipment (PPE) • Insulation • Pipes and pipe fittings • Head protection products • Plasterboards • Tap wares (e.g. bicycle, motorcycle, industrial, Plywood Polyethylene tanks cricket and equestrian helmets) • • • Swimming pools and spas • Solar hot water systems • Safety footwear and eyewear • Safety Glass • Septic tanks • Hearing protection • Windows • Sanitary fixtures • Protective clothing Automotive Fire Children’s products • Jacks • Fire blankets • Prams • Portable ramps • Hoses • Restraint systems • Seat belts • Extinguishers Safety • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Harnesses • • Protective Equipment Fall arrest systems • • Fire Alarms • Breathalyzers
BSI audits over 50,000 different products worldwide. Contact BSI on 1300 730 134 to seek guidance on your products if not listed above.
The benefits speak for themselves:
Reduced Risk Reduced Cost Assessed ability to Regular assessment ensuring produce safe, quality process reliability to avoid products that meet product recalls, repair, specifications and remake, waste and costs of customer requirements restitution due to deficient every time. product performance.
Product Certification Process Control and Revenue Growth Improvement Certified compliance with the standards set by An effective management specifiers, eases entry to system that ensures proper new markets, and growth in process management, training, existing markets. communication and improvement.
Competitive Advantage Products that customers believe are more reliable can command greater market share and higher profitability. Proven reliability further enhances your reputation.
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BSI Verifeye™
New technologies
BSI BenchmarkTM Extension to certification scope
Verification Pre-assessment BSI KitemarkTM indicative testing
Type Testing
The steps you will take with BSI:
Pre-assessment/indicative testing We can help support your product stage, reducing the need for re-testing during a formal development process to test your innovation compliance test. as a more cost effective solution before you Your commercial advantage: apply for third-party certification. Any non- Get your products to market more quickly. Investment at conformities can be identified at an early this stage could help you stay ahead of your competitors.
Type Testing Industry, national and international standards Your commercial advantage: specify the tests required of the products BSI partners with its clients with their end goal in mind. they cover. Testing must be performed by Our industry experts provide guidance from start to appropriately accredited laboratories. Whether finish - on sampling, test parameters and methods, report you are looking to test existing products against new requirements and final assessment of the results to allow a standards or to test new products, BSI can guide you to the more expedient transition through this stage. best test facility for your product.
Verification This scheme verifies aspects of any product, standard or specification. Verification does not require process or service through examination against continuing surveillance and is an ‘entry level’ certification to the clients determined publically available support subsequent Benchmark or Kitemark certification.
4 Call: 1300 730 134 Email: [email protected] Visit: bsigroup.com/en-au BSI BenchmarkTM - enter the AU/NZ and International markets
BSI BenchmarkTM is a registered audit date. Our technical experts assist with testing and certification mark that is highly developing the audit scope. Qualified auditors complete the recognized and respected as a initial and annual assessments at your manufacturing plants symbol of quality and safety. A product bearing this mark and provide a prompt report of your status against the indicates that BSI has conducted a rigorous audit of its accreditation scheme. manufacture and production, and symbolizes that the product Your commercial advantage: complies with the appropriate Australian, New Zealand and/or The BSI BenchmarkTM is a powerful marketing tool which International Standard. works around the world as a global passport to help you BSI assigns a client care specialist to help you with the pre- gain access to new markets. audit information exchange and scheduling an appropriate
KitemarkTM - enter the EU market If you want to trade within the European Your commercial advantage: Economic Area (EEA) and your products must comply with the applicable national and ISO of clients say BSI Kitemark helps 75% them attract new customers standards that apply. Kitemark is a very highly regarded brand throughout Europe because it offers customers reassurance about the quality confirm BSI Kitemark helps to and safety of your products. 65% increase sales
BSI Verifeye™ Turn your certification achievements Your commercial advantage: into a trusted BSI VerifEye™ Profile This ensures trust, visibility and traceability of real supplier weblink enabling you to promote the facilities, mitigating risks and protecting your corporate credentials of your organization in values. Your trusted BSI VerifEye™ profile weblink turns your a transparent manner, ensuring trust, credibility and a real certification into a positive marketing tool. differentiation to your organization.
Extending the scope of your certificates
If something has changed which needs product or modification, we can help you make sure your to be reflected on your certificate, we products still comply, and your certificate is still valid. can help. From a new location to a new
New technologies
Where new or adapted products are ahead of We are also, where appropriate, able to combine clauses from the curve, a relevant standard may not yet be specific standards in order to be able to offer third-party available. We can still help. We can often use certification. other specifications or technical documents, Your commercial advantage: such as trade association specifications or what are known as You could be first to market, gaining a significant competitive Publically Available Specifications (PAS’s). As long as they are edge. Combining this with BSI Benchmark certification could robust, developed by consensus and publically available, we significantly boost confidence in your products. can run a valid certification scheme to them.
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Product Testing BSI Initiates a Client File Initial type testing completed by BSI or BSI guides the client on the information evidence of testing submitted. Testing 1 required and steps that need to be taken 6 must occur in facilities certifed for the specific test program
Client Application Evaluation Client submits application with basic BSI assesses manufacturing process, details (e.g. range of products, processes, product and quality management 2 manufacturing locations) 7 system against the standard, and makes recommendation
Contract Review Risk and Compliance Check • BSI reviews Benchmark application BSI Risk and Compliance team independently review the audit • Requests additional information recommendation and evidence to 3 • Prepares quotation 8 determine client eligibility for certification
Benchmark Certificate Client commits to process A certificate is issued if BSI concludes • Manufacturer accepts quotation the client is capable of consistently 4 • Provides Quality System Documentation 9 producing product that complies with the applicable standard
Initial Assessment Annual Surveillance Clients Quality Management System Assessments review the products, processes, quality management system, (QMS) is assessed by BSI (QMS does not non-conformances and corrective 5 have to be ISO 9001 accredited) 10 actions, internal audits and any changes since the previous audit
BSI Benchmark™
BSI BenchmarkTM confirms the product has been independently (3rd party) assessed to ensure the manufacturer can consistently produce product compliant with the applicable standard.
The BSI BenchmarkTM is one of the most recognized symbols of quality and safety and offers true value to consumers, specifiers and businesses.
For Consumers For Specifiers For Businesses
When a client has attained the BSI Benchmarked product BSI Benchmark provides competitive BSI Benchmark, it can be affixed manufacturers are re-assessed advantage for clients by helping to to products from the audited annually to confirm they comply reduce risk & costs, e.g. rework, repair, manufacuring site. It clearly signals with the standards. This provides waste, litigation, save costs. The to consumers that they can trust that specifiers confidence of product enhanced reputation BSI BenchmarkTM standards of quality and safety are fitness for purpose and reduced risk of helps you become a pre-approved consistently achieved. By delivering constriction and in-service problems. or preferred supplier to many more this reassurance, consumers trust the projects. product or service that bears the BSI BenchmarkTM
6 Call: 1300 730 134 Email: [email protected] Visit: bsigroup.com/en-au Experts in the field
Unquestionably, our people are our strength. Our test We support you, and work with you, every step of the testing engineers are some of the most experienced in their and certification journey. At BSI, we offer a full range of respected fields. testing and certification services including pre-assessment, gap analysis, batch testing and full compliance testing. With in-depth knowledge and understanding of the testing and certification process that is second to none, we can help You’ll find experts at all our centres of excellence, ready to you every step of the way in your certification journey. help you in the following areas:
1 2 3 ‘Development’ ‘Market access’ ‘Differentiation’
When you are developing When you are ready to sell your When you need to new products (NPD phase) products and need market access differentiate your products
Our type testing can help you We can help you gain CE Get the BSI Benchmark or Kitemark identify what you need to make marking as well as other similar - ongoing independent and impartial your produce fit to sell certification marks to give you validation of quality, safety and trust, market access only available from BSI
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About BSI
BSI, is the business standards company that helps organizations all over the world “make excellence a habit”. We do this through standards creation, system certification, supplier verification and training activities that help organizations manage risk, reduce costs 10,000 and ensure sustainability. We’ve increased our scale and expertise, certifying more than Industry experts dedicated to 3,500 clients across more than 50 programs in Australia. This enables us to offer clients a your success greater range of integrated services and for those clients with international needs, access to a global network across 172 countries worldwide.
Standards 80,000 Customers worldwide As the world’s first Standards Body and founding member of ISO, BSI leads the way in originating many of the world’s most recognized standards, including: ISO 9001 Quality Management, ISO 14001 Environmental Management, OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management, ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security, ISO 22000 Food Safety and HACCP. Our portfolio consists of over 30,000 current standards. Training Last year we provided training Our Royal Charter to 112,000 people
BSI is a Royal Charter company, which was established in 1929. The Royal Charter states our functions as a standards body, focused on the development of standards, training and certification activities designed to improve performance, manage risk , reduce cost and Certification enable sustainable growth. As a Royal Charter Company, we reinvest • 100,000+ business locations certified by BSI profits back into our business to improve our clients’ experience. • 25,038+ business locations certified by BSI in Asia Pacific • Our assessors score on BSI Training Academy average 9.25/10 in our Global Client Satisfaction Survey We offer one of the widest ranges of standards-related training available from quality management to managing your energy effectively. We don’t just train you to meet standards, we help you to understand how to embed them into your organization.
We know what an auditor will look for – so we train you to meet it. We know the thinking behind the standard – so we can convey that to drive and inspire your people. We have a team of expert tutors working across the world who can transfer the knowledge, skills and tools your people need to embed standards of excellence into your organization.
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