Types of the Audits:

(a) New Company 

The Inital Audit comprises of Phase 1 (P1) and Phase 2 (P2) audits. 

The objective of the P1 Audit is to carry out a documentation audit, confirm the certification scope and the company's readiness to proceed to P2 Audit. 

P2 Audit is to assess the company's system effectiveness in implementation to conform to the ISO standard. 

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(b) Existing Certified Companies

Surveillance Audit (SA) -  after a successful P2 Audit, the certified company will have two annual Surveillance Audits, one audit per year for two years. The BRS Audit team will carry out surveillance activities so that BRS can maintain confidence that the company's management system continues to fulfill the requirements of the standards.

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Re-certification Audit (RA) - after two successful Surveillance Audits,  a full audit similar to the P2 Audit will be carried out on-site. The purpose of this RA is to confirm the continued conformity and effectiveness of the company's management system as a whole, and its continued relevance and applicability for the scope of certification.

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Special Audits - example of this special audit is for a company's expansion scope, investigating customer complaints to the certified company, re-audit for the major non-conformance and etc.

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3. Certification Decision

Granting Certification -

The BRS Certification Review  Committees (CRC ) will approve the company for certification after the client's company has successfully completed the audit with the rectification of the audit findings applicable to the types of the audit. BRS Certified companies can use the BRS logo as per the BRS Logo guidelines.

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Refusing Certification -

The CRC will refuse the certification for any of the following reasons but not limited to, any major non-conformance found by the audit team for a situation that has risk and threatened the audit or if the audit did not comply with the ISO17021 and IAF requirements.

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Voluntary Suspension or Involuntary Suspension -

Companies can request a voluntary suspension for up to a maximum of six (6) months and the request must be submitted in writing. Involuntary suspension can be due to the CRC's refusal of registration for the serious failure to meet certification requirements and failure to take effective corrective actions within the set timeline. This includes failure to pay the fees due after a written notice is issued by BRS.  A special audit will be required for BRS Auditor to re-assess the suspended company on its management system to ensure the system meets the certification requirements, relevant legislation, and BRS procedures. After a satisfactory assessment has been completed, the suspension status will be lifted and the company's original certification status can be reinstated.

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Restoring -

This is to resume the registration back to the previous status after the suspension period ends or anytime before the six (6) months suspension period if requested by the client to restore its certification status. A special audit is required before restoring the certification.

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Withdrawing -

At the end of the suspension period, the client will need to inform the BRS team to either withdraw its certificate or restore its previous status. If the final decision is to withdraw the certificate, the certified company will be deleted from the BRS's certified list and the company will be notified to return its certificate to BRS or to arrange other destruction methods.

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Transfer Certificate -

CRC will review whether the company has an active registration with another CB or an inactive registration status. For the inactive registration status, the company is considered a new company and will undergo the Initial Audit stages. For the active registration with another CB, the CRC will need to review this based on a case-by-case basis.