Gap assessment
Document review and on-site walkthrough mapped to the relevant ISO clauses. Output: a numbered gap register with clause references, severity, and a sequenced remediation plan.
ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 17025
Build management systems that pass audits and outlive them.
DaySpring ISO Standards & Certification Consult is an independent standards, audit, and training consultancy serving manufacturers, laboratories, and service organisations in Ghana and West Africa. We help SMEs and corporate clients design ISO-aligned systems engineered for the real conditions of their operations — then prepare them to certify with confidence.
Standards we work in
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- ISO 45001
- ISO 17025
- ISO 19011
- ISO 22000
- ISO 27001
- ISO 50001
What we do
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Phase 06
End-to-end ISO consulting, sequenced for certification readiness.
Most clients arrive at the same junction: they need to certify, but their existing processes are tribal knowledge — undocumented, inconsistent, and impossible to audit. We translate operations into management systems that auditors can verify and your team can actually run.
System implementation
Manual, procedures, work instructions, risk and opportunity register, objectives, KPIs, and document control structure — written for your operation, not lifted from a template.
Internal & supplier audit
Independent internal audits, supplier audits, and pre-certification audits per ISO 19011. Findings are evidence-based, classified, and accompanied by corrective action recommendations.
Training & competency
Lead Auditor and Internal Auditor courses, awareness sessions, and role-specific competency development — open enrolment or in-house.
Certification readiness
We coordinate Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits with your accredited certification body, attend on your behalf as a technical advisor, and lead nonconformity closure.
Sustained compliance
Surveillance audit support, management review facilitation, internal auditor refreshers, and continual-improvement programmes that keep your system live between certification cycles.
How we work
A six-stage delivery process — predictable, evidence-led, and sequenced around your audit dates.
01 / Scope
Discovery
Free 30-minute scoping call. We confirm scope, applicable standards, target certification date, and resource constraints.
02 / Diagnose
Gap analysis
Clause-by-clause review of existing documentation, processes, and records. Findings issued as a gap register.
03 / Build
System design
We co-author the manual, procedures, and forms with your process owners — not in isolation.
04 / Run
Implementation
Risk and objectives are operationalised. Records start accumulating. Internal auditors are trained and deployed.
05 / Audit
Pre-certification
An independent mock audit replicates Stage 2 conditions. Nonconformities are closed before the certification body arrives.
06 / Sustain
Surveillance
Quarterly check-ins, management review support, and audit refreshers through your three-year certification cycle.
8+
ISO standards covered
15+
Years materials & reliability eng.
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Industry sectors served
100%
Independent advisory
Why DaySpring ISO Standards & Certification Consult
Engineering rigour, not template recycling.
Our lead consultant, Robert Asmah, brings a materials science and reliability engineering background to every engagement. That perspective — root cause discipline, measurement traceability, and life-cycle thinking — shapes how we read your processes and design your management system.
The result: documentation that mirrors how work actually happens, audit trails that stand up under scrutiny, and a system your team will still be using two surveillance audits from now.
Read founder bioFIG.01 — Plan-Do-Check-Act, the engine of every ISO management system standard.
The gap analysis alone reorganised how we think about quality. By the time the certification auditor arrived, our process owners could speak the language of the standard fluently.
We engaged DaySpring for ISO 17025 readiness across two laboratories. The measurement uncertainty methodology and traceability mapping was exactly the rigour we needed.
Plan your route to certification with a free scoping call.
30 minutes. No commitment. We confirm scope, identify the standards in play, and outline a realistic certification timeline.