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ISO certification and auditor training from Amman, Jordan. Explore management-system certification, specialist verification and assessment, and awareness training. Enquire about delivery across the Gulf and the Levant.
The certification cycle
01Apply
Scope and headcount set the audit duration
02Stage 1
Documented information and scope reviewed
03Stage 2
How the system works in practice, on site
04Decide
Decided by a reviewer outside the audit team
05Surveil
Audits under the agreed surveillance programme
06Recertify
Year 3: the cycle reviewed, certificate renewed
Certificate of registrationValidity and surveillance follow the agreed scheme
- Standards and guidance covered
- 12
- Sectors in our catalogue
- 9
- Years of experience
- 22+
What you need from a certification body
Start from what you need
Six reasons organizations come to us. Pick yours and the certification cycle, standards, services, training and resources below reconfigure around it.
Your route through the certification cycle
Apply
Proposed scope and quotation
Stage 1
Stage 1 report and readiness confirmation
Stage 2
Audit findings report
Decide
Certification decision and certificate if approved
Surveil
Surveillance audit report
Recertify
Renewal decision and certificate if approved
Application, Stage 1, Stage 2, decision
You have a management system running and want it certified. We scope it, quote a fixed audit duration from the accreditation body's formula, audit it in two stages, and pass the evidence to a reviewer who was not on the audit team. We cannot build the system for you.
Typical standards:ISO 9001ISO 27001ISO 45001
Get a QuoteEvery route ends the same way: an audited management system, and a certification decision taken by someone who was not on the audit team.
Standards and guidance
Twelve standards and guidance documents, connected
Explore the standards relevant to your objectives. The connections show related topics. Management-system certification, environmental verification and guidance-based assessment have different outputs.
12 of 12 standards shown · 24 related topic pairs
- ISO 9001Quality Management SystemsDeliver consistently, reduce rework and win contracts that demand proof of quality.
- ISO 14001Environmental Management SystemsControl environmental impact, stay ahead of regulation and answer supply-chain scrutiny.
- ISO 45001Occupational Health & Safety ManagementProtect people with a safety system that works on site, not just on paper.
- ISO 27001Information Security Management SystemsProtect the data your customers trust you with, and prove it to their security teams.
- ISO 42001Artificial Intelligence Management SystemsGovern AI you build or buy, before regulators and customers ask how.
- ISO 14064Greenhouse Gas Inventories & VerificationCarbon numbers rigorous enough to publish, procure with and verify.
- ISO 14068Climate Change Management & Carbon NeutralityMake carbon-neutrality claims that survive scrutiny, or do not make them at all.
- ISO 22301Business Continuity Management SystemsWhen disruption hits, run the plan instead of improvising.
- ISO 50001Energy Management SystemsCut energy cost and carbon with a system that keeps finding the next saving.
- ISO 20000-1IT Service Management SystemsRun IT services with the discipline your SLAs promise.
- ISO 22000Food Safety Management SystemsHACCP discipline and management rigor in one certifiable food-safety system.
- ISO 45003Psychological Health & Safety at WorkManage psychosocial risk with the same rigor as physical safety.
The standards organizations ask us to certify first
What certification to each of these standards is sought for, and what the audit against it examines. Every standard has a full guide to its requirements and its audit.
ISO 9001 certification
Predictable delivery
Defined processes, ownership and acceptance criteria reduce variation between teams, shifts and sites.
What the audit examines
Stage 2 examines the process in practice.
ISO 14001 certification
Compliance you can evidence
A live register of obligations, evaluated periodically, replaces hoping the permits are in order.
What the audit examines
Stage 2 examines control on the ground.
ISO 45001 certification
Fewer incidents
Systematic hazard identification and risk control reduce both frequency and severity over time.
What the audit examines
Stage 2 examines control at the work face.
ISO 27001 certification
Sales acceleration
A certificate of registration gives enterprise procurement a third-party answer to the questions a security questionnaire asks, so vendor review turns on evidence rather than assertion.
What the audit examines
Stage 2 tests the controls against evidence.
Most often certified alongside
What an audit is for
Two ways to spend the same audit days
Audit duration is set by the accreditation body's formula, so the number of days is fixed either way. What changes is what those days are spent on. Select any row to compare it side by side.
An audit that checks paperwork
An audit that tests the system
The difference is not the number of days, it is what the auditor asks to see. An audit that only reads documents cannot tell you whether the system works.
How CORE auditsThe certification cycle
Six stages, three years, one decision
From application to recertification, with the decision taken by someone who was not on the audit team. Select a stage to see what it examines and what it produces.
Plan surveillance and recertification under the programme and expiry conditions applicable to your management-system certificate.
Sector competence
The environments we audit in
Pick a sector to see the operational reality an auditor has to understand before the visit, and the controls that live in it.
Explore the controls
Certification audits that start on the production floor
Process discipline, customer audits and multi-standard integration for makers of physical product.
The pressure the audit meets
Customer audits and PPAP-style scrutiny
OEM and enterprise customers audit your systems directly. Findings threaten the relationship, not just the certificate.
What customers here ask us to certify
Certification to ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 50001
Stage 1, Stage 2 and an independent certification decision against each standard inside your scope of certification.
How a certification cycle runs
Sample scenarioFrom three audit calendars to one integrated certification cycle
A mid-sized precision-engineering manufacturer, two sites, about 180 staff
Three calendars, one audit programme
Documentation the audit sampled
What the application presented
The manufacturer held ISO 9001 and applied to add ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 to the same certificate, to hold a major OEM contract. Three sets of documentation had been produced separately, each on its own review calendar, and the application described a scope that covered both sites without saying how the two differed.
The recurring theme from the applicant's own customer audits was documentation present, practice divergent. That is a question the audit could test directly, so it shaped where the audit team spent its time.
How the audit ran
- Application reviewed and audit duration calculated from effective headcount, scope, complexity, risk category and the two sites, with the reduction that applies when three standards are audited together rather than separately.
- Stage 1 examined the documented information, the scope boundary, and whether internal audits and management review had been completed across all three standards. Two areas were raised as improvement requests: the shared risk method and the definition of the second site's boundary.
- Stage 2 was conducted on both shop floors, sampling operations, records, competence, internal audit effectiveness and corrective action against each standard's requirements at the point the work is done.
- Findings were graded and reported within the agreed timeframe. The recommendation went to a reviewer who was not on the audit team, and surveillance was scheduled according to the certification programme against a single combined audit programme.
Standards involved
What the cycle produced (illustrative)
- One cycle
- Three standards, one audit programme, one surveillance schedule
- Illustrative
- Duplicated requirements audited once where the standards genuinely share them
- Illustrative
- Responses to minor findings reviewed and accepted under the applicable certification procedure
- Decision
- Taken by an independent reviewer under the applicable certification scheme
Build your capability
Training built around who is in the room
Choose the role you are training and the pathway, courses and materials below reconfigure.
Learning pathway
Read the standard clause by clause: documented information, objectives, the audit programme and management review.
- Internal Auditor Essentials2 daysClassroom, Live online, In-houseInternal auditor
- ISO 14001 Internal Auditor2 daysClassroom, Live online, In-houseInternal auditor
- Integrated Management Systems Masterclass3 daysClassroom, In-housePractitioner
What they work from
Every delegate works from a course workbook and runs the exercises on sample case material. Courses teach how the standard is written and how it is audited; they do not document or implement your system, and attending one changes nothing in a certification decision.
How CORE trainsThe people
Auditor competence matched to your scope
A certification body has to demonstrate that every auditor is competent for the standard and the sector they are sent to assess. Audit teams are assigned on that basis and rotated across the cycle.
Auditor competence
Standards and guidance, sector by sector
Relevant to this sectorNot mapped in this catalogue
Resource centre
Practical answers before you enquire
Understand certification, compare training and prepare the information needed for a useful enquiry.
- Standards guidesWhat each standard requires, who it applies to, and what being certified involves.
- Pre-assessment gap analysisAn audit-style review before Stage 1 that reports where the standard is not yet met.
- Surveillance and recertificationHow continuing audits and renewal fit into the certification cycle.
- The certification cycleWhat Stage 1 and Stage 2 examine before a certification decision.
- Verify a CORE certificateSend certificate details to CORE for a manual register check and written response.
- Choosing a consultantQuestions to assess independent implementation support, relevant experience and working arrangements.
Get a quotation, or transfer the certificate you already hold.
Tell us your standards, the scope you want covered, your effective headcount and your sites. You will get a scope statement and a fixed quotation, with audit duration calculated from the accreditation body's mandatory formula.