Accreditation Criteria

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1 Accreditation Criteria Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Certification BCB 130 September 2009 Contents 0.0 Foreword Scope Criteria Guidance on the requirements of OHSAS Scope of Accreditation Certification Body Competence Time of audits Foreword: Date Effective - 1 Oct 2009 Page 1 of 5

2 The Government of India and the Indian Industry came together to establish the accreditation system in response to the need of the industry and the certification bodies of Management Systems (QMS, EMS, OHSMS and other Management Systems) who were largely dependent on the accreditation systems of Europe and US. A Council with representation from Government, Industry, Certification Bodies, Non Government Organizations (NGO), etc. was formed and named as Quality Council of India (QCI). This Council was entrusted with the task of establishing the accreditation system in India. A (NABCB) was established to implement the accreditation of the Certification Bodies. The NABCB has already published Accreditation Criteria and corresponding Guidance documents for QMS, EMS, FSMS, Inspection and Product Certification Bodies. This document sets out the Accreditation criteria for Certification Bodies providing certification for Occupational health and safety management systems Requirements based on OHSAS 18001:2007 standard. 1.0 Scope: This document specifies the requirements that a third party body operating an Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) Certification Programme shall meet if it is to be recognized by the Board as competent and reliable in the operation of OHSMS Certification. 2.0 Criteria The Certification Bodies seeking accreditation for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems Certification shall comply with the requirements specified in OHSAS 18001: Occupational health and safety management systems-requirements or any other standard considered equivalent by NABCB. 3.0 Guidance on the Requirements of OHSAS 18001:2007 standard The Board shall adopt the IAF Guidance on application of OHSAS 18001:2007 as the criteria document of NABCB, whenever it is brought out. In the meantime, if any further clarifications beyond OHSAS 18001: 2007 are required, the same will be issued by the Board on a case to case basis. 4.0 Scope of Accreditation The Board has adopted the scope of accreditation based on the Statistical Nomenclature of Economic Activities as given in Annex Certification Body (CB) Competence 5.1 Accreditation by NABCB signifies that the certification body is competent to offer OHSMS certification in specific technical areas. The CB must have carried out an initial competence analysis in the technical areas for which it seeks accreditation. This shall include: Page 2 of 5

3 a) ensuring that it has knowledge of the technological and legal developments relevant to the OHSMS of the client organization, for which it is seeking accreditation. b) an effective system for the analysis and demonstration of the competencies in information security management which it needs to have, with respect to all the technical areas in which it operates. c) the technical expertise of auditors shall be judged by using three digit NACE codes or a system that provides equivalent analysis and rigour. 5.2 The CB shall have a procedure for initial qualification and subsequent monitoring of its auditors and experts based on ISO and the specific requirements given in OHSAS 18001:2007. The CB shall establish procedures for qualifying an auditor /expert for a specific technical area within the scopes given in 4.0 above. 6.0 Time of the Audits undertaken by the Certification Body The Board has adopted the mandatory documents MD 05, issued by IAF on the audit man days that are normally required for audit to verify compliance to OHSAS 18001:2007 standard. The Certification body shall have procedures to determine the audit man days required for audit for initial assessment, surveillance and reassessment. The procedure shall also include the policies for estimation of audit duration for multisite organizations and transfer of certificates, as needed Page 3 of 5

4 Annex 1 (Cl. 4.0) Scopes of Accreditation This list of scopes of accreditation is based on the statistical nomenclature for economic activities (NACE Rev. 1) 1994, published by the Commission of European Communities (official Journal L083,1993), IAF scope sector classification approved by NABCB Board. No. Description NACE Code 01 Agriculture & Fishing & Forestry A, B 02 Mining and Quarrying C 03 Food products, beverages and tobacco DA 04 Textiles and textile products DB part 05 Leather & Leather products DC 06 Wood and wood products DD 07 Pulp, paper, and paper products DE Publishing Companies DE Printing companies DE 22.2,3 10 Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products DF 23.1,2 11 Nuclear fuel DF Chemicals, chemical products and fibres DG minus Pharmaceuticals DG Rubber and plastic products DH 15 Non-metallic mineral products DI minus 26.5,6 16 Concrete, cement, lime, plaster etc. DI 26.5,6 17 Basic metals and fabricated metal products DJ 18 Machinery and equipment DK 19 Electrical equipment, Optical and precision equipments DL and Medical and surgical equipment 20 Shipbuilding DM Aerospace DM Other transport equipment DM 34, 35.2,4,5 23 Manufacturing not elsewhere classified DN Recycling DN Electricity supply E Gas supply E Water supply E 41, Construction F 29 Wholesale & retail trade; Repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and G Personal and household goods 30 Hotels and Restaurant H 31 Transport, storage and communication I 32 Financial intermediation; Real estate; renting J, K70, K71 33 Information technology K Engineering services K73, Other services K74 minus K Public Administration L 37 Education M 38 Health and social work N 39 Other social services O Activities covered under Scope sectors 23, 35 and 39 would be on the basis of NACE classification against the respective scopes. Activities not covered under NACE classification would be dealt on a case-to-case basis. Page 4 of 5

5 Amendment Record Date Auth. by Description of Amendment Page 5 of 5