What exactly is the use of ISO three-system certification for enterprises?

The three-system certification refers to ISO9001 certification, ISO14001 certification, and ISO45001 certification. ISO9001 is a quality management system standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO14001 is an environmental management system standard developed by ISO, currently the most comprehensive and systematic international environmental management standard applicable to organizations of any type and size. ISO45001 is an occupational health and safety management system standard developed by ISO.

System Introduction

The three-system certification refers to ISO9001 certification, ISO14001 certification, and ISO45001 certification.

ISO9001 Certification

ISO9001:2015 is a quality management system standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This standard incorporates advanced international quality management concepts and adopts the PDCA cycle quality philosophy. The certification is highly practical and instructive for both suppliers and customers of products and services. The standard applies to all industries, with hundreds of thousands of enterprises, governments, service organizations, and other institutions worldwide having implemented ISO9000 and obtained third-party certification. Obtaining ISO9000 certification has become a basic requirement for organizations to enter the market and gain customer trust.

ISO14001 Certification

ISO14001:2015 is an environmental management system standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It is currently the most comprehensive and systematic international environmental management standard applicable to organizations of any type and size. Implementing the ISO14001 standard helps enterprises achieve energy saving and consumption reduction, optimize costs, improve corporate image, and enhance competitiveness. Obtaining ISO14000 certification has become a green pass to break international green barriers and enter European and American markets, gradually becoming one of the essential conditions for organizations in production, operation, and trade activities.

ISO45001 Certification

ISO45001:2018 is an occupational health and safety management system standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It provides enterprises with scientific and effective occupational health and safety management system specifications and guidelines, improves occupational health and safety management levels, establishes mechanisms for self-supervision, self-discovery, and self-improvement, thereby enhancing workers' physical and mental health and safety skills, significantly reducing cost inputs, and improving work efficiency, while establishing a good quality, reputation, and image in society.

Benefits of Certification

01 Benefits for Enterprises Obtaining ISO9000 Certification

(1) Emphasizes a customer-centered philosophy, clarifies how the company obtains and understands customer requirements through various means, determines customer requirements, meets or even exceeds customer requirements through the operation of various processes within the system, and measures customer satisfaction to continuously improve the company's position in customers' minds and enhance customer confidence;

(2) Clearly requires the company's top management to directly participate in quality management system activities, formulate quality policies and quality objectives at all levels from the company level, have top management judge the performance of the quality management system by timely obtaining the achievement status of quality objectives, directly participate in regular management reviews to grasp the overall status of the quality system, and promptly take measures for system deficiencies, ensuring sufficient resources from the company level;

(3) Clearly defines the responsibilities, authorities, and interrelationships of personnel at various functions and levels, and specifies the competency requirements of various personnel in terms of education, training, skills, and experience to ensure their competence, involving all employees in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the entire quality system to ensure smooth operation of all company processes;

(4) Clearly controls all links that may produce nonconforming products, isolates and disposes of nonconforming products, and uses institutionalized data analysis to find the root causes of nonconforming products, preventing their occurrence or recurrence through corrective or preventive measures, thereby continuously reducing the company's poor quality costs, and continuously improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the quality management system through other continuous improvement activities, achieving continuous cost reduction and profit growth for the company;

(5) Replaces cumbersome second-party factory audits with a single third-party registration audit. Professional third-party audits can discover deeper problems within the company and supervise company personnel to work according to the established quality management system standards through regular surveillance audits;

(6) Obtaining quality system certification is a stepping stone to gaining customer qualification and entering international markets, and is currently an important basis for enterprises to carry out supply chain management.

02 Benefits for Enterprises Obtaining ISO14001 Certification

(1) Comply with government legal requirements and obtain the "green pass" for international trade
(2) Enhance enterprise competitiveness and expand market share
(3) Establish an excellent corporate image
(4) Improve product performance and manufacture "green products"
(5) Reform processes and equipment, optimize costs, and achieve energy saving and consumption reduction
(6) Pollution prevention and environmental protection
(7) Avoid economic losses caused by environmental issues
(8) Improve employees' environmental awareness
(9) Improve internal management level and reduce management costs
(10) Reduce environmental risks and achieve sustainable business operations

03 Benefits of Obtaining ISO45001 Certification

(1) Provide enterprises with scientific and effective occupational health and safety management system specifications and guidelines;
(2) Safety technology system reliability and human reliability alone cannot completely prevent accidents; organizational management factors are the deepest reasons for accidents in complex systems. Systematic, prevention-oriented, comprehensive safety management involving all personnel, all processes, and all aspects;
(3) Promote the implementation of occupational health and safety laws and regulations;
(4) Transform organizational occupational health and safety management into proactive and voluntary behavior, improve occupational health and safety management levels, and establish mechanisms for self-supervision, self-discovery, and self-improvement;
(5) Facilitate further alignment with international standards, eliminate trade barriers and green barriers after joining the WTO;
(6) Help improve overall safety awareness;
(7) Improve working conditions, enhance workers' physical and mental health and safety skills, significantly reduce cost inputs, improve work efficiency, and generate direct and indirect economic benefits;
(8) Improve the quality of human resources. According to human capital theory, work efficiency is closely related to the safety and health conditions of the work environment; good conditions can greatly improve productivity and enhance enterprise cohesion and development momentum;
(9) Establish a good quality, reputation, and image in society. Because excellent modern enterprises, besides having economic strength and technical capabilities, should also maintain strong social concern and responsibility, excellent environmental protection performance, and ensure employee safety and health.