The scope of accreditation describes the activities covered by an organization’s accreditation. SCC offers the following scopes of accreditation for management systems certification bodies.
Certification bodies seeking to offer sector-specific programs must first be accredited as a certification body for quality or environmental management systems, as applicable.
A quality management system defines and establishes an organization’s quality policy, objectives and procedures. Quality management system standards do not provide specific quality indicators or describe ways of achieving them, since these will be different in every situation. Instead, they provide generic frameworks and general principles that can be applied to any organization, of any size, in any industry.
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) accredits certification bodies that assess and certify quality management systems to the international standard ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.
View expected Outcomes for Accredited Certification to ISO 9001
The Standards Council of Canada’s (SCC’s) Energy Management Systems Accreditation Program assesses the competence of bodies that intend to certify organizations in their implementation of the international standard, ISO 50001 – Energy Management Systems.
By establishing energy management systems and processes in accordance with ISO 50001, organizations can improve their overall energy performance, including energy efficiency, use and consumption. These improvements can lead to significant energy cost savings, as well as reduce an organization’s greenhouse gas emissions (carbon footprint), and other adverse environmental impacts.
SCC’s Energy Management Systems Accreditation Program accredits certification bodies that certify energy management systems in the following sectors:
• Commercial buildings
• Light and medium industry
• Heavy industrial
• Transportation
• Building complex energy use
• Energy providers
An environmental management system verifies the impact of an organization’s activities on the environment. Such systems help organizations to establish environmental goals and targets, and to evaluate how well they are being achieved.
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) accredits certification bodies that assess and certify environmental management systems to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems standard.
View expected outcomes for accredited certification to ISO 14001
Food Safety management systems provide a framework for effectively managing the safety of food supply chain, from “farm to fork.” The international standard for food safety management brings together generally recognized food safety practices and is suitable for any organization along the entire food chain, including related organizations such as manufacturers and producers of food equipment, packaging material, cleaning agents, additives and ingredients.
Recognized as an accreditation body by the Foundation for Food Safety Certification under the Food Safety System Certification 22000 scheme, SCC is able to offer accreditation to certification bodies that are interested in auditing and certifying food safety systems of food manufacturers.
The FSSC 22000 scheme, which is based on the certification requirements of ISO 22000 and BSI-PSA 220, is formally recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) accredits certification bodies that assess and certify food safety management systems to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard ISO 22000 Food Safety Management.
Occupational health and safety management systems provide a framework for managing an organization’s occupational health and safety responsibilities, which enable organizations to:
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) accredits certification bodies that assess and certify occupational health and safety management systems to the international standard ISO 45001 - Occupational Health and Safety, as well as OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Standard.
SCC accredits organizations that certify the management systems of medical device manufacturers. SCC is no longer accepting applicants into the (Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System (CMDCAS) program. For more information, please contact the Health Canada, Therapeutic Products Directorate.
Environmentally conscious consumers increasingly demand that their wood-based products come from sustainably farmed forests and that they be manufactured in an environmentally sound way. Certification to forestry management standards by an SCC-accredited body shows corporate social responsibility—a testament that the producer operates in a sustainable way that ensures a renewable supply of raw materials.
An anti-bribery management system can help organizations prevent, detect and address bribery. It helps to reduce the risk of bribery occurring and can demonstrate to clients and stakeholders that an organization has put in place internationally recognized good-practice anti-bribery controls.
