Requirements for Certification
Requirements for Certification / V14 2025-04-01
Amendment date
Version
Approved by & date
01.04.2020
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GWO ExCo, 20.04.2010
Description of changes
Name of document changed from “Criteria for the Certification Body” to “Requirements for the Certification Body”
Version changed to 07
Format aligned with other GWO Documents. Including numbering of sections and paragraphs.
Content re-organised and redundant requirements merged.
Section 3 is new and includes Terms & Definitions
Incl. Definitions on non-conformance
Incl. definition on WINDA related terms
Delegate replaced with course participant
Section 4 contains Change log– latest revision, historical revisions moved to Annex 1.
Previous section 4 merged into ned section 5 Introduction
Section 6: Requirements for Certification Bodies,
Content re-organised and redundant requirements merged.
Requirements to register CB competence with GWO, and to be listed on website
specified ISO/OHSAS version year
Auditor Qualification Training replaces the pre-requisite of having witnessed or participated in the specific training module from April 1, 2021 and validity of same.
New requirement to allow GWO to audit certification body in special cases
Section 7: The certification process
Content re-organised to follow chronology of process.
Redundant and overlapping requirements deleted and/or merged.
References training settings (fixed, mobile, onsite and digital) in TP requirements
Man-day table for both single site and multi-site introduced
Requirements for stage 1 allows remote auditing as an option, clarifies that initial audit stage 2 must always be a physical in person audit updated requirements for sampling and change certificate lifecycle from three to two years to align with sampling cycle
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