Dear Sudien,
the approach for certfication
You have to contact any one of the certfifyting body (BVQI, RWTUV, DNV, etc) as a third party. They may assist in developing the system or suggest some one who are associated with them to guide you to develope the same.
For your organization, you will have to nominate a person as MR (management representative) to develop and implement the system. He can be assisted with few more to form a team. Initially, there will be a lot of documentation (deaft - discuss - change - finalize) to be made. You do not have to appoint a new person. generally it will be an additional responsibility given to an individual.
Everyone in the organization should be covered for an awareness training on the quality management system. the key persons to be given a full training either as lead auditors (5 days course) or as internal auditors (3days course), so that they understand the total requirement of the system.
The team, then decides on the levels of documentation. in general, it consists of apex or core system manual, procedures, work instructions, and forms & formats. There are mandatory procedures as per the satndard requirements, which you should have. other procedure depends on the organizational control they wish to have.
Once these documents are in place, they have to be implemented and the internal auditors have to carry out the audits for conformance. all non conformances to be corrected and prevented against reoccurance. The MR will conduct management review meetings to appraise the status and decisions on resources, objectives, targets, action plan are to be recorded.
once you are comfortable with the system, you can call the third party agancies to come for audit and certify.
remember, you have to complete atleast one full cycle of audit before calling the third party for certification . i.e - one internal audit - MR meeting - followup audit on corrective and preventive actions on non conformance.
hope this information will give you a fair idea on the certification process.
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