Requirements for Certification
Requirements for Certification / V14 2025-04-01
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
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• 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 • introduce requirement to send audit report, incl. non-conformances and observations to GWO along with certificate Annex 1: Remote Auditing. Introduces temporary measure for remote auditing is at this stage considered trailing to extract knowledge with an aim to determine a permanent requirement. Sets specific requirements for reporting learning about remote auditing to GWO, and sets minimal requirements for analysing limitations of remote auditing, and to implement mitigating actions (to be included in report to GWO)
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GWO Secretary
Description of changes
• Section 2: states that with this edition of the criteria it is now a requirement for the certification body to document conformity to GWO prior to commencing audit.
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