Requirements Certification V14

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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