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Certification body excellence with ISO 17021
Operating a certification body without systematic management creates accreditation risks and undermines certification credibility.
Tidal builds your Management System Certification Body operations. Implement structured audit processes, maintain accreditation requirements, and demonstrate impartial, competent certification services.
ISO 17021 in depth
ISO 17021 requires certification bodies to operate with a systematic management approach. Organisations often focus on individual audit processes, missing the integrated management system that ensures consistent, impartial certification across all schemes and clients.
Without systematic management, certification quality varies, impartiality risks emerge, and accreditation becomes vulnerable. This undermines certification credibility and business sustainability.
By implementing ISO 17021 as a management system, certification excellence becomes embedded in all processes from application through surveillance. This ensures accreditation maintenance and certification credibility.
How Tidal helps you get certified
Hit the ground running
Start with our pre-built controls, policies, and risk assessment templates.
Our platform guides you through establishing your ISMS scope, identifying assets, and implementing right-sized controls that match your business needs.
Why Tidal Control
We understand your challenges because we've been there. Our team of GRC experts and security professionals built Tidal to solve the real problems compliance teams face every day.
Made in Europe
Built and hosted in Europe. Your compliance data stays in the EU for full control and peace of mind.
Continuous automation
Automated evidence collection from cloud providers and development tools working 24/7 for you.
Real security
Build secure systems that protect your business and satisfy auditors, not just check compliance boxes.
Go beyond ISO 17021
Explore complementary standards that strengthen your certification body operations.
ISO 9001
Managing certification body quality systematically? ISO 9001 provides the quality management foundation for consistent, reliable certification services.
ISO 27001
Protecting client information and certification data? ISO 27001 ensures confidentiality and security of sensitive information handled during certification activities.
ISO 45001
Certifying health and safety management systems? ISO 45001 demonstrates your expertise in occupational health and safety certification, expanding your service portfolio beyond other management systems.
ISO 22301
Ensuring continuity of certification services? ISO 22301 helps certification bodies maintain operations during disruptions, ensuring clients' certifications aren't affected.
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Frequently asked questions
ISO 17021 specifies requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems (like ISO 9001, ISO 27001, etc.). It's essential for certification bodies seeking accreditation and organisations that want to understand certification body requirements.
ISO 17021 is the foundation for certification body accreditation. Accreditation bodies assess certification bodies against ISO 17021 requirements to ensure they operate competently, consistently, and impartially when certifying organisations.
ISO 17021 requires impartiality and independence, competence of personnel, structured audit processes, confidentiality, management system approach, and systematic management of certification activities. Our platform helps you implement and maintain these requirements.
Our platform helps you define competence criteria, assess auditor qualifications, track auditor performance, manage ongoing development, and maintain evidence of auditor competence for each certification scheme you offer.
Yes, our platform supports structured certification decision-making processes, ensuring decisions are made by competent persons independent from audit activities, with clear documentation and audit trails required by ISO 17021.
We help you identify and manage threats to impartiality, document safeguards, maintain records of relationships and activities, and demonstrate ongoing impartiality to accreditation bodies and certified clients.