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.
Business continuity management systems empowers organizations to respond more effectively and recover more swiftly to disruptions. It provides a framework to help identify an organization’s risk of exposure to internal and external threats. It helps organizations understand what needs to be done to prepare for unexpected events, set goals for business continuity, and put controls and measures in place to manage risks. It also includes monitoring and reviewing the performance of the business continuity plan to make sure it works well.
The Standards Council of Canada accredits certification bodies that assess and certify business continuity management systems to the ISO 22301 – Security and resilience – Business continuity management systems standard.
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.
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.
CyberSecure Canada is a federal cyber certification program, developed in collaboration with Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), that aims to raise the cyber security baseline among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Canada , increase consumer confidence in the digital economy, promote international standardization and better positions SMEs to compete globally.
Certification requires Canadian SMEs to implement the baseline security controls developed by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. The security controls aim to give SMEs the greatest amount of protection with the least amount of burden.
The CyberSecure Canada certification mark will give certified businesses official recognition by the federal government for demonstrating their compliance to the baseline security controls.
The certification mark provides an easy way for customers, investors, partners and suppliers to know that a business has decreased their cyber risk.
If you wish to become accredited to offer the CyberSecure program to your customers, please contact our accreditation team at accreditation@scc.ca.
If you want to learn more or become certified under the CyberSecure Canada certification program, please visit ISED’s CyberSecure webpage or contact us.
Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) allow organizations to implement, maintain, and continually improve their information security. ISMS manages the security of assets such as financial information and intellectual property.
The ISO/IEC 27000 series of standards are designed to cover organizations of all sizes, industries and nature. Due to this, there are dozens of standards within it. Some choose to implement these standards to take advantage of the best practices they provide, while others prefer to become fully certified. Certification reassures customers that all requirements are being followed completely.
SCC uses the criteria in ISO/IEC 17021-1 and ISO/IEC 27006 to accredit certification bodies that assess and certify ISMS systems to the international standard ISO/IEC 27001.
The Standards Council of Canada’s Aerospace Quality Management Systems is recognized by the International Aerospace Quality Group to accredit certification bodies for AS9100, AS9110, and AS9120 AQMS certification.
The AS9100 series is the industry-recognized set of standards for quality assurance and risk management for organizations involved with the design, development, production, installation, and servicing in the aerospace sector. Many major aerospace, space, and defense manufacturers require that their entire supply chain be Aerospace Quality Management Systems certified.
As a pre-requisite, certification bodies must be accredited to ISO/IEC 17021-1 for ISO 9001 certification by SCC or another International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA) signatory for at least one year prior to applying for AQMS accreditation.
Learn about the steps to accreditation with SCC.
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
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 to ISO 13485. SCC no longer accepts applicants into the Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System (CMDCAS) program. For more information, please contact the Health Canada, Medical Devices Directorate.
Environmentally conscious consumers increasingly demand that their wood-based products come from sustainably farmed forests and that they are 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. SCC accredits organizations that certify to ATFS, SFI and CAN/CSA Z809.
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. SCC can accredit certification bodies that audit to ISO 37001.
