PROPOSAL - ISO CERTIFICATION

CEYLON CONTINENTAL HOTEL – COLOMBO

Prepared by : Shammika Kariyawasam

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CONTENT

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS)...................................................................3
ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (EMS).....................................................4
ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System (FSMS)........................................................5
ISO 9001 vs ISO 22000.................................................................................................................5
BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING ISO STANDARDS..............................................................................6
PROPOSAL PLAN – ISO QMS/EMS IMPLEMENTATION....................................................................7
ISO 22000:2005 SPECIFIES REQUIREMENTS....................................................................................8
ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION BODIES IN SRI LANKA........................................................................9
OTHER CERTIFICATIONS.................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................11
ANNEXURE – HACCP SEVEN PRINCIPLES.......................................................................................12

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INTRODUCTION
The International Organization for Standardization, widely known as ISO, is an international-
standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards
organizations. The organization promulgates worldwide proprietary industrial and
commercial standards. There are more than 17,500 ISO standards. But, following are the key
ISO standards that should be focused:

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS)

ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (EMS)

ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System (FSMS)

Certification of ISO standards not only increases the company overall image and reduces costs
but also fulfills requirements to gain other certifications (OHSAS 18001, LEED, etc) as well.

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS)

The ISO 9000 family of standards represents an international consensus on good quality
management practices. It consists of standards and guidelines relating to quality management
systems and related supporting standards.

ISO 9001:2008 is the standard that provides a set of standardized requirements for a quality
management system, regardless of what the user organization does, its size, or whether it is in
the private, or public sector. It is the only standard in the family against which organizations can
be certified – although certification is not a compulsory requirement of the standard.

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ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (EMS)

The ISO 14000 family addresses various aspects of environmental management. The very first
two standards, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 14004:2004 deal with environmental management
systems (EMS). ISO 14001:2004 provides the requirements for an EMS and ISO 14004:2004
gives general EMS guidelines.  The major objective of the ISO 14000 series of norms is "to
promote more effective and efficient environmental management in organizations and to
provide useful and usable tools - ones that are cost effective, system-based, flexible and reflect
the best organizations and the best organizational practices available for gathering, interpreting
and communicating environmentally relevant information

ISO 14001 : 2004 represents the core set of standards used by organizations for designing and
implementing an effective environmental management system

ISO 14004 : 2004 gives additional guidelines for a good environmental management system,
and more specialized standards dealing with specific aspects of environmental management

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ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System (FSMS)

The ISO 22000 international standard specifies the requirements for a food safety management
system that involves the following elements:

 Interactive communication

 System management

 Prerequisite programs

 HACCP principles (see Annexure 1)

ISO 22000:2005 specifies requirements for a food safety management system where an
organization in the food chain needs to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards in
order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption.

ISO 9001 vs ISO 22000

In comparison with ISO 9001, ISO 22000 is a more procedural orientated guidance than a
principle based one. Apart from that, ISO 22000 is an industrial-specific risk management
system for any type of food processing and marketing, which can be closely incorporated with
the quality management system of ISO 9001.

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BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING ISO STANDARDS
 International recognition and acceptance to the industry

 Increased attraction of local/international customers due to increased public image

 Represent the commitment of the employees towards improvement

 For marketing strategies

 Greater employee quality awareness

 Reduced operations costs

 Increased revenue

 Increased employee morale

 Better documentation of processes

 Reduced environmental liability

 Verified systems for recognizing and complying with environmental laws and regulations

 Safety benefits

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PROPOSAL PLAN – ISO QMS/EMS IMPLEMENTATION
PHASE I : INITIATE

 Conduct comprehensive surveys on the specific Standard, assessment

procedures, accreditation procedures, etc.
 Conduct a primary assessment of the organization (SWOT Analysis)
 Identify the actions that can be implemented
o Short-term actions (No/less modifications)
o Medium-term actions
o Long term actions (Setting up/Refurbishment of a plant)

PHASE II: PLAN

 Define organization standard policies to be achieved within the management
boundaries
 Setting up the steering committee and teams
 Training to the staff

PHASE III: IMPLEMENT

 Implementation of procedures and documentations
 Integration of QMS/EMS

PHASE IV: MEASURE AND EVALUATE

 Assessment of integrated QMS/EMS
 Conduct an internal audit

PHAESE V : REVIEW AND IMPROVE

 Review Problem Reports
 Management Review
 Resolution of Problems
 Submission of documents to a accredited certification body

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ISO 22000:2005 SPECIFIES REQUIREMENTS
 plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a food safety management system
aimed at providing products that, according to their intended use, are safe for the
consumer
 demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety
requirements
 evaluate and assess customer requirements and demonstrate conformity with those
mutually agreed customer requirements that relate to food safety, in order to enhance
customer satisfaction
 effectively communicate food safety issues to their suppliers, customers and relevant
interested parties in the food chain
 ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy
 demonstrate such conformity to relevant interested parties
 seek certification or registration of its food safety management system by an external
organization, or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to ISO
22000:2005.

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ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION BODIES IN SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka Standards Institution

17, Victoria Place (Lane adjoining Telecommunication Regulatory Commission),
Elvitigala Mawatha,
Colombo 08.
Tel:  +94 11 2671567-72
Fax: +94 11 2671579
E-mail: slsi@slsi.slt.lk

SGS Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.,

3rd floor, AEC Building,
140, Vauxhall Street,
Colombo 2.
Tel: +94 11 5376 280, +94 11 2 323 878
Fax: + 94 11 5376 281

Praguna Management Consultant (Pvt) Ltd.,

No. 313 ½,
Hill Street,
Nadimala, Dehiwala.
Tel : +94 11 5014552, +94 11 2721744
E-mail: pragunamgt@sltnet.lk, info@pragunalanka.com

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OTHER CERTIFICATIONS
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green
building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community
was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as
energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental
quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS) is an international occupational

health and safety management system specification. It enables an organization to control its
occupational health and safety risks and improve its performance by minimizing employee
related risk issues.

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REFERENCES
1) The website of International Organization for Standardization - http://www.iso.org
2) The website for Sri Lanka Standardization Institition - http://www.slsi.lk
3) The website for the SGS Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. - http://www.lk.sgs.com
4) Wikipedia Encyclopedia - http://www.wikipedia.org
5) The website for ISOQAR - http://www.isoqar.com

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ANNEXURE – HACCP SEVEN PRINCIPLES

Principle 1: Conduct a hazard analysis. - Plans determine the food safety hazards and identify
the preventive measures the plan can apply to control these hazards. A food safety hazard is
any biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause a food to be unsafe for human
consumption.

Principle 2: Identify critical control points. - A Critical Control Point (CCP) is a point, step, or
procedure in a food manufacturing process at which control can be applied and, as a result, a
food safety hazard can be prevented, eliminated, or reduced to an acceptable level.

Principle 3: Establish critical limits for each critical control point. - A critical limit is the
maximum or minimum value to which a physical, biological, or chemical hazard must be
controlled at a critical control point to prevent, eliminate, or reduce to an acceptable level.

Principle 4: Establish critical control point monitoring requirements. - Monitoring activities are
necessary to ensure that the process is under control at each critical control point. In the United
States, the FSIS is requiring that each monitoring procedure and its frequency be listed in the
HACCP plan.

Principle 5: Establish corrective actions. - These are actions to be taken when monitoring
indicates a deviation from an established critical limit. The final rule requires a plant's HACCP
plan to identify the corrective actions to be taken if a critical limit is not met. Corrective actions
are intended to ensure that no product injurious to health or otherwise adulterated as a result
of the deviation enters commerce.

Principle 6: Establish record keeping procedures. - The HACCP regulation requires that all
plants maintain certain documents, including its hazard analysis and written HACCP plan, and
records documenting the monitoring of critical control points, critical limits, verification
activities, and the handling of processing deviations.

Principle 7: Establish procedures for ensuring the HACCP system is working as intended. -
Validation ensures that the plants do what they were designed to do; that is, they are
successful in ensuring the production of safe product. Plants will be required to validate their
own HACCP plans. FSIS will not approve HACCP plans in advance, but will review them for
conformance with the final rule.

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