The presence of Global Compliance Service Guyana Inc. in Guyana can serve as a game-changer for the country at a time when the apparent direction in which its economy is heading will make more exacting demands on local service providers across the sectors, Global Compliance Service Inc. (GCS) Chief Executive Officer Candelle Bostwick has told the Stabroek Business.
Setting aside the fact that GCS is the only 100% Guyanese – owned and Accredited Certification Body in Guyana benefits from an image that is buttressed by an international brand.
A long-standing Accredited Certification Body, the company is aiming to step up its work rate in Guyana at a time when the country is experiencing the most dramatic socio-economic transformation in its history.
When the Stabroek Business spoke with Ms. Bostwick recently she appeared to take particular pride in the coincidence between the arrival of Global Compliance here and what she says are the “increased opportunities for many more businesses in Guyana to attain ISO Certification status.” Bostwick noted too that Global Compliance’s presence here now allows for local entities to access the company’s services “at more competitive rates,” a circumstance which she says “has increased consumer confidence in the quality, consistency, safety and reliability of Guyanese products and services.”
During her interview with the Stabroek Business earlier this week, Bostwick wanted potential clients to know that the presence of Global Compliance in Guyana affords them the opportunity to have their organizations certified “to an International Standard” at the levels of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System, ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System, ISO 14001 Environmental Management System or the ISO 22000 Food Safety Management System. These, she says are among training criteria that allow beneficiaries “to stay with the competition in a country whose economic direction will impose increasingly tougher demands on service providers in the period ahead.”
And according to Bostwick potential clients seeking certification to an International Standard must provide evidence of having implemented the ISO Management System Standard that is relevant to the particular services that they provide.. “Once the system is implemented the organization should complete at least one cycle of internal audits and a management review based on the requirements of the Standard (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 or ISO 22000,” Bostwick says.
And addressing the benefits of certification Bostwick told the Stabroek Business that ISO certification allows for the involvement of an “independent third-party Conformity Assessment Body to provide “independent verification of an organization’s management system,” and to furnish “written assurance that the management system implemented by the organization meets the specified requirements..”
The company CEO says that the attainment of ISO certification positions the beneficiary organization to gain through Improvement in the management and control of its internal systems, waste reduction and increased market share, increased product/service marketability increased access to opportunities for joint ventures and new investment opportunities.
According to Bostwick “globally, organizations of all sizes and types have reaped the benefits of attaining Certification status. There is, she says, no reason why businesses in Guyana cannot capitalize on the opportunity to become Certified to ISO Management System Standards by utilizing the Certification Services of GCS.
Listed on the CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) Quality Infrastructure database as a Conformity Assessment Body the company also creates jobs for locally trained professional Auditors and seeks to ensure that businesses registered under its brand “benefit from their investment and recognize the true value behind their ISO Certificate. “We recognize every certificate issued as a commitment of the top management of that organization taking full responsibility to continually improve and make deliberate efforts to provide the highest quality of products and services to their customers and in the long term raising the benchmark for standards and quality in Guyana,” Bostwick told the Stabroek Business.
