FSC
FSC Certification
What Is FSC?
FSC™ Forest Stewardship Council
FMC Forest Management Certification
FSC stands for forest stewardship council, FSC is officially born in the year 1994 and pioneered the certification for sustainable forestry, it remains the most trusted sustainable forest management solution. FSC introduces Forest Management Certification for its chain of custody to ensure credible confirmation of products with environmentally and socially responsible sources to access the market. FSC chain of custody certification verifies that FSC-certified material has been identified and separated from non-certified and non-controlled material as it makes its way along the supply chain, from the forest to the market. All sizes and organizational structures are possible for chain of custody certification, including single-site, multi-site, and groups of organizations, FSC project certification provides third-party verification for projects made of or containing forest-based materials from responsible sources. A goal of the system is to reduce the risk that non-certified material used in the manufacture of FSC MIX products is linked to practices that harm forests and people. There are industries using forest-based material in their products, want to promote and claim them as being FSC-certified, Mostly suppliers of packaging goods are producing products to the customers demanding FSC certification should comply with standard for certification. That completes the supply chain impact globally. Organizations that are certified according to this standard can issue project statements to identify their projects as being FSC-certified
Effective measures for supplier’s production processes and controlled forestry material evaluation being demanded by the brands and international buyers, they demand more effective way of evaluations. Proactive ways are being discovered by the factories to benchmark themselves and track progress against competitors and national standards. Significant shift has been observed towards greater transparency and the implementation tool for assessing continuous improvement.
By implementing FSC standard organization can improve and control its overall production processes risk and Forestry safety conditions to assure the confidence & satisfaction of their customers and other stakeholders. Factory can get the certificate after successful audit as it is a certification based audit and factory is approved if any factory meets the minimum requirement in audit which is required to get the approval as customers has set the acceptance level against the audit.
FSC is the voluntary based audit program and is suitable for any organization i.e. large, medium and small considering improvement in its forestry sustainability to meet the expectations of all stakeholders. FSC audit is performed against the requirements of FSC standard which assures safe, legal, effective, and controlled manufacturing process of forestry products.
Benefits of FSC Certification
- Improved Controls and Processes for Managing Forest Based products
- Producing FSC certified products
- Supporting customers in developing a business relationship with FSC supply chain and other large scale retailers
- Improved Transparency and Trust between Buyers and Suppliers
- Better Forestry products Risk Management
- Get new business opportunities from international Retailers
- Improve the reporting structure
- Improve the traceability
- Globally accepted standard
- Helpful to attract new customers
- Helpful to retain the confidence of existing customers
- Consistent outcome, measure and monitored
FSC Standard Focuses on
- Administrative requirement
- Responsibilities
- Project members
- Material sourcing and FSC claim on projects
- Material handling
- Health and Safety requirement
- Procedural requirement and records traceability
By implementing this standard organization can improve its overall forestry compliance performance to assure the confidence & satisfaction as well as meet the expectation of its customers
FSC Certification Process
After finalization of agreement with client, Quality Systems’ experts visit to client’s premises and conduct the complete gap analysis of existing system against the FSC code of conduct and discuss the gap report to the management, identified gaps could be in documents, implementation, traceability, health and safety, customer code gaps. We commence work according to the agreed timelines as per final gap report and proceed for the audit once all the documentation, implementation, and other requirements are done. Our technical team provides complete assistance, support and cooperation throughout the process to make certification audit successful in first attempt.
FSC certification is not granted once-and-for-all, it must be re-audited before expiration of the certificate. After applying for the audit to the auditing body, they conduct the audit. After the successful conduction of audit, auditing body issues the certificate. After completion of audit cycle or certification re-audit will be conducted.
Cost of FSC Certification
Charges of FSC certification can not be flat or same for every organization, please contact us in this regard.
Why Quality Systems
Quality Systems is working with the team of qualified and experienced consultants and trainers having vast industrial experience, most of our consultants are also lead auditors who are aware to the expectations of auditors from your management system during the audit. Quality systems is assisting across the world to implement and achieve the FSC outstanding score. Our consultation methodology is highly professional, time bound and effective and we always add value to the business process of the client’s organization.
Our FSC audit complete package comprised on following segments such as training, implementation, consultation, gap analysis, documentation, internal audits, pre assessment, third party audit through recognized/authorized body and post audit enhancement / maintenance services to enable your organization to get the best outcome of FSC Certification. Our services are globally accepted, authoritative and benchmarked in the field of FSC audit.