BSI BenchMark

BSI BenchMark is an alternative means of assessment that audits your compliance to your chosen management system standard (e.g. ISO 9001 Quality) and independently evaluates, scores and validates your organization’s performance.

This premium service allows you to set your own criteria and targets, in addition to your management system requirements, to help ensure that you really are meeting key business objectives and unlocking your company’s true potential.

Who is it relevant for?

BSI BenchMark is suitable for any business that wants to achieve more from its current certification, would like to measure and tailor its assessment to its business objectives and have the ability to internally and externally benchmark its performance.

Which management systems can be used using this premium benchmark service?

This type of assessment can potentially incorporate any of our existing and future management systems standards, including:

• Quality
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Environment
• Integrated Management
• Information Security

We can also incorporate one or more of the above standards and include your own requirements to ensure we are giving you an assessment that is tailored to your organization’s needs and objectives.

BSI BenchMark is much more in-depth than a conventional assessment. With a conventional assessment there are no pre-arranged questions, Client Managers work from the clauses of a particular standard and there is no scoring available, only observations and non-compliances.

However, BSI BenchMark can be integrated with your existing management systems and your own requirements to give you an assessment that is tailored to exactly match your needs. Questions are used to review the maturity of your management system and following the review you are given a score that indicates where your organization’s main strengths and weaknesses are. This will allow your management to allocate resources and plan future improvements.

For more information please complete our online enquiry form or contact us.

BSI BenchMark is designed to help your organization to manage risks and improve your performance year on year. Through internal and external benchmarking, it allows you to monitor and compare performance in different parts of your business – stimulating healthy competition – and also compare your company against a database of competitors. Benefits include:

• Operational efficiencies
  BSI BenchMark instantly highlights strengths and weaknesses, enabling you to make the most of resources and reduce costs.
• Customized assessments and results
  We can assess performance against your own criteria and international industry standards.
• Full visibility
  Our enhanced assessment highlights the effectiveness of your management system and your staff.
• Clear and easy to use
  Our comprehensive executive summary gives a clear overview of your organization’s risks and opportunities.
• Continual improvement
  We work with you to move beyond mere compliance and continually improve the way you operate.
• Internal transparency
  Morale is improved as staff are kept informed and feel part of the process of improvement.
• Independent reassurance
  The BSI BenchMark award and certificate of registration is evidence to all stakeholders of your commitment to continual improvement.

For more information please complete our online enquiry form or contact us.

BSI can offer training courses to this premium service and these can be pre, mid and/or post assessment delivery.

The training courses pre and mid assessment will enable you to get support on known weak areas in advance of certification.

For post assessment training, we offer in-house ‘improvement workshops’ with facilitators who carry out tailored courses. This will help you to develop improvement action plans so that you can make positive changes to your organization to enhance your performance and scores for the following year.

For more information please complete our online enquiry form or contact us.

Certification to this premium service is simple and we will guide you through every step.

1. Make contact

Get in touch with us and let us know what you need so that we can sort out the best services for your business. We’ll then discuss with you whether you want to continue with the conventional assessment route or opt for this premium service.

2. Meet your assessment team and scope out the project

We’ll assign you a co-ordinating Client Manager to discuss the scope of the project. This Client Manager will be your main point of contact through the process – and beyond. They will need to understand your business objectives and risk profile and will outline the elements of the project, including the question sets and scoring methodology.

3. Review and assessment

We’ll do a review with your senior management and assess your organization thoroughly to see whether their expectations correspond to actual company practice.

4. Reporting and presentation

When enough evidence has been gathered, a closing meeting will follow to identify any strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities for improvement. At this time, final scores will be presented in a visual representation of your organization’s performance. This will also enable you to make detailed judgements on the scores. Following this meeting a detailed executive report will be sent to you.

5. Award and certification

Once the assessment has been successfully completed, we’ll issue a certificate of registration (if applicable), clearly explaining the scope of your management system. You will also be given an award acknowledging your performance levels.

6. Appraisal

This includes a facilitated internal review workshop which enables senior management to appraise their performance and set targets for the following year. Your co-ordinating Client Manager will also arrange a follow-up visit to you make sure you remain compliant, and support you in the continual improvement of your systems.

7. Improvement workshops

Whether you are seeking to implement opportunities for improvement or would like to reduce risk, there are a range of in-company workshops to enable you to improve your performance.

For more information please complete our online enquiry form or contact us.