SCI ISO Standard

[seanmcilroy29]

From @benlogan

Some notes from a recent conversation that I had with an internal UBS expert who helps with our own ISO audits (environmental management systems).

Re-certification audit every 3 years. (typical for ‘management systems’, e.g. 14001). This is quite an intense process.

Regular (light-touch) every 1 year.

This is fairly normal.

An intermediate 3rd party firm runs the audit and checks for compliance against the standard.

They all charge for ‘audit days’. So it obviously costs! The number of audit days and days on site etc change from standard to standard. This cost could be prohibitive for small companies, we should consider that.

You can quote ‘aligned to this standard’ with a lighter touch, but that doesn’t carry the same credibility.

We need to think carefully about what we are really aiming to achieve with the standard. It may fit into the category of a ‘process’ standard, i.e. we want confirmation that those adopting the SCI and publishing SCI scores are fully adhering to the recommended process (algorithm) and that could require quite rigorous testing.