FSC Certification

What is FSC Certification?

FSC is a widely adopted and standardized Quality Management System (QMS) for the Aerospace industry. The aerospace community has specific requirements that need to be taken into account, and the QMS needs to incorporate these critical requirements. The FSC Certification was introduced in 1997 by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) based on the internationally recognized standard ISO 9001 in order to encourage International quality, safety, and technology standards in air transport. The certification can be applied to all areas in aviation like design and manufacture of equipment, airport and airline operations, aircraft accessory supply, spares supply, and maintenance.

The FSSC 22000 standard was developed by the Foundation for Food Safety Systems Certification (FSSC) as a response to the need of the International food sector to have an independent ISO-based food safety scheme for third-party auditing and certification for their Food Safety Management System. FSSC 22000 is a food safety certification scheme that has been developed to certify food safety systems of organizations that process or manufacture animal products, perishable plant products, products with a long shelf life, and other food ingredients such as additives, vitamins, and organic crops and materials for food packaging. FSSC 22000 is designed to promote International harmonization and transparency in food safety standards.

Why do I need Kwikcert in particular?

Because we keep the entire process simpler, FSC Certification can take just 7 – 30 days to complete the process based on your company’s size. In fact, our ‘Hassle-free certification’ approach provides the following benefits

• Reduce the time taken to acquire ISO 9001 Certification
• No Certification cost
• We provide you access to web-based online Process Repository Software to manage your complete process documentation
• 24/7 access to our back end support team who can manage your process documentation remotely
• Reduce management time required
• Reduce the cost of maintaining Certification

Benefits of FSC

Applying the FSC will help administrations to work with an OH&S management system that can advance its occupational wellbeing and security management in the following ways.

• Developing and executing a rigorous and comprehensive OH&S policy along with objectives
• Establishing smart operational controls for managing OH&S risks along with its legal ramifications and other factors
• Clearly marking the jeopardies and perils associated with OH&S and its activities and then trying to eliminate them; it may also involve the implementation of controls which can reduce their potential effects
• Founding actual systematic courses that consider the opportunities and risks as well as the legal aspects of FSC
• Evaluating the overall OH&S performance as well as coming up with ways to improve it by taking various types of suitable arrangements
• Increasing the awareness of OH&S risks
• Making sure that the workers and employees actively follow all OH&S matters

Implementing theFSC can also help to make sure that a company gains a strong reputation as a safe and healthy place to work. This can also encourage new potential employees to get interested in working with the company. It can also have the following benefits:

• It can help in enhancing the ability of a company to attend all regulatory compliance issues
• It can bring down the cost associated with the insurance premiums
• The standard can reduce the costs associated with downtime as well as disruption of operations
• It can make it easier to reduce the costs of all incidents
• It can also minimize absenteeism in a major way and also enhance employee turnover rates

It can bring recognition that comes with achieving an international benchmark. This can also impact the mindset of the customers who may become positively concerned about their diverse safety and social responsibilities.

Who should follow FSC?

FSSC 22000 was given Global Recognition by the GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative), as well as other food safety schemes such as BRC or IFS. FSSC 22000 enables manufacturers to focus their food safety efforts on scientific and technical advances and their audit resources on improvement rather than compliance. It provides confidence to other stakeholders that your organization has the ability to identify and control food safety hazards. Therefore, it ensures compliance with legislation, regulators, and customers.

FSSC 22000 is one of the many services offered by KwikCert, the global consulting and certification solutions provider. FSSC 22000 takes a risk-based, systems approach, providing organizations with a clear path towards achieving certification. Many food industry organizations support the FSSC 22000 scheme as industry best practice for food safety and actively seek this GFSI certification as a pre-requisite to their supplier approval process. FSSC 22000 applies to any organization, regardless of size and geographic location, which produces food. We deliver FSSC 22000 certification services across the globe.