Demonstrate Your Commitment to Product, People and Planet

December 23, 2024

Discover the power of ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 and show your stakeholders your commitment to your products, your people and the planet.

In this fast-paced world, today’s business leaders have a lot to juggle! Ensuring your products and services meet quality and safety standards, keeping your workers and workplaces safe, and contributing to the global effort to minimise the impact to the environment are all high on the agenda.

NSF offers a range of internationally recognized management system certifications, demonstrating your organization’s commitment to your products, your people and the planet.

Management System certification helps organizations adopt good practice, and improve quality and safety, supporting them to become more sustainable and more resilient. Independent certification and verification show your customers you meet specified standards and operate robust policies and procedures. In turn, this can help provide access to new markets.

Drive performance improvements for product, people and planet

ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 help organizations improve their operations in key business areas, including products, people and the planet, garnering prominence and respect within numerous industries.

ISO 9001 is the world’s most widely adopted management system standard. It helps cultivate a culture of continual improvement with respect to quality in an organization. In some industries, it is a prerequisite to tender for contracts.

ISO 14001 is an excellent framework to holistically manage an organization’s environmental impact. In 2024, along with several other management system standards, it was amended to integrate climate change considerations into the standard. This was as a result of the ‘ISO’s Climate Commitment’ also known as ‘The London Declaration’.

As health and safety in the workplace rise in the corporate agenda, ISO 45O01 has gained momentum. It not only requires organizations to consider physical, chemical, or biological risks, it also requires organizations to consider ‘psychosocial’ risks such as workload, work hours and bullying. When published in 2018, it represented a shift in the thinking behind the management of health and safety in the workplace. Its predecessor was known as OHSAS 18001.

These standards improve business areas, including:

Product: ISO 9001 Quality Management	People: ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management	Planet: ISO 14001 Environmental Management
Helps ensure consistent repeatable quality of products and processes	Helps keep workers and workplaces safe	Helps reduce waste and minimize environmental impacts
Often required when bidding for tenders.	A legal or contractual requirement for many sectors and industries.	Earns the respect and trust of industry regulators, partners and the public.
Target more industries that require or expect ISO 9001 certification Improve your product, process and service quality Reduce waste and improve productivity Improve internal communication	Create a safer and healthier work environment Minimize workplace-related injuries and illnesses Reduce downtime and associated costs Meet Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) legal and policy requirements	Identify environmental impacts of your activities Reduce waste Highlight environmental risks and opportunities Prepare for emergencies

Product:
ISO 9001
Quality Management

Helps ensure consistent repeatable quality of products and processes

People:
ISO 45001
Occupational Health & Safety Management

Helps keep workers and workplaces safe

Planet:
ISO 14001
Environmental Management

Helps reduce waste and minimize environmental impacts

Product:
ISO 9001
Quality Management

Often required when bidding for tenders.

People:
ISO 45001
Occupational Health & Safety Management

A legal or contractual requirement for many sectors and industries.

Planet:
ISO 14001
Environmental Management

Earns the respect and trust of industry regulators, partners and the public.

Product:
ISO 9001
Quality Management

Target more industries that require or expect ISO 9001 certification
Improve your product, process and service quality
Reduce waste and improve productivity
Improve internal communication

People:
ISO 45001
Occupational Health & Safety Management

Create a safer and healthier work environment
Minimize workplace-related injuries and illnesses
Reduce downtime and associated costs
Meet Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) legal and policy requirements

Planet:
ISO 14001
Environmental Management

Identify environmental impacts of your activities
Reduce waste
Highlight environmental risks and opportunities
Prepare for emergencies

Start from the beginning or transfer your certificate

Whether you’re considering a new certification, or you’d like to transfer your existing certificate with another Certification Body, NSF can help.

We offer a straightforward transfer process without interrupting your certification. What’s more, it may be possible to combine audit cycles for all your management systems, minimizing interruptions from multiple audits and helping streamline your processes.

With NSF you’ll get:

Access to NSF Connect, a portal for all your audit reports, inspection results and certificates
A dedicated Account Manager
Sector expertise, thanks to skilled teams with deep industry knowledge
When you earn certification use the NSF Management System Certification Mark, trusted worldwide
Access to a suite of training solutions*

From our first stage 1 audit with NSF, I was very satisfied. I am impressed by how the NSF auditors take time to make sure our employees and managers feel comfortable during the audit. Certification has provided us with the ability to show new hires, new suppliers and new/potential customers a clear picture of who we are, what we expect and what we are able to give.

Jayne McMahon

Quality Manager, Technicut Tool

Readiness surveys

If you’re embarking upon Management System certification, take a NSF readiness survey to help you determine what stage your organization is currently at.

* Attending NSF training sessions does not provide an advantage, nor is it linked in any way to the granting of certification.