Establishing the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Management System and having the certificate of this standard on it is a great benefit for both employees and the organization. Employee productivity increases, morale and motivation rises, employee satisfaction increases, loyalty to the company increases, labor turnover decreases, ensures the continuity of qualified human resources, working conditions improve, product and service quality increases.
On the other hand, the reliability of the company increases, customer satisfaction increases and customer loyalty increases accordingly, costs resulting from control transactions decrease, competitiveness increases, and the reputation of the sector increases. ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Management System, which provides such benefits, has an important function in determining the social responsibility policies of organizations and ensuring their continuity.
Many organizations aim to make social responsibility requirements a corporate culture. That is why they apply social responsibility standards. In this way, organizations produce their products or services, employees and legal regulations and ISO 26000. standards, the company complies with occupational safety and health rules for employees and takes necessary measures to protect the environment and protect the environment. Although the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Management System standards are only guidelines, they do not envisage a certification work, but it is seen that the organizations that set up this system go to certification bodies to obtain certificates.
Organizations with such requests must first complete an Application Form and then open all documentation work to the certification body. At the beginning of this documentation work is the Social Responsibility Handbook. Furthermore, the policies, business processes, job descriptions and application instructions prepared by the organization within this scope are also included in this documentation. Apart from the documentation, the signature circular of the organization, the chamber registration and the photocopies of the trade registry newspaper are among the documents to be submitted to the certification body. edited ISO 26000. The validity period of the Social Responsibility Management System Certificate is three years. During this period, compliance with the standard is carried out every six months or annually. At the end of the three-year re-certification work is required.
