How CAQA ISO supports certification-readiness, and why third-party certification decisions rest with certification bodies.
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CAQA ISO, part of CAQA Groups and a Career Calling International initiative, supports organisations to become and remain certification-ready. Our services include ISO training courses, internal auditor and lead auditor pathway training, internal audits as a service, gap analysis and readiness reviews, management system builds and implementation support, CAPA and management review support, and preparation for surveillance and recertification audits across management-system standards. These services are delivered to quality managers, compliance teams, education providers, businesses and government organisations under agreed engagements, and no payments for them are taken through this website.
CAQA ISO is not a certification body and does not issue, grant or award ISO certification. Decisions to grant, maintain, extend, reduce, suspend or withdraw certification of a management system remain at all times with independent third-party certification bodies operating under their own accreditation arrangements. An internal audit, gap analysis or readiness review performed by CAQA ISO is not a certification audit, and a CAQA ISO training certificate is a record of attendance or completion, not certification of an organisation or a formally regulated qualification.
Engaging CAQA ISO for readiness, implementation, training or internal audit support improves preparation but does not guarantee that a certification body will grant or continue certification, that an audit will be free of nonconformities, or that any regulator, funding body or customer will accept a particular outcome. Certification bodies apply their own audit programs, interpretations, sampling and decision processes, which are outside our control.
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