CERTOP is a GWO approved Certification body.

What is GWO?

Global Wind Organisation – GWO – is an association of wind turbine owners and manufacturers to support an injury-free work environment in the wind industry through setting worldwide, mutually recognizable industry safety training standards.

What are the training standards?

Improved safety and technical modules. The GWO framework aligns generic safety and technical training standards, common to all wind energy companies.

GWO standards are created by the industry, for the industry. Our members are globally leading turbine manufacturers and owners, representing a majority of installed wind energy capacity around the world. Together, they share risk information and expertise to create training standards that improve safety and build a competent workforce.

In general, a GWO training certificate for the technicians is valid for 2 years. The certificates can be renewed – before expiry date – by taking a refresher training course, which is usually shorter than a full training. Refresher training modules have standalone standards. After an original training certificate expired, the technician needs to take a full training course on that module.

Certification process

The GWO certification process differs from the audit of a conventional management system in terms of the audits of GWO training, where as part of the audit, the auditor must observe and assess the training courses of all certified modules.

Your first GWO certification process – the initial audit

• Choose the training module or modules which you would like to deliver. A single module can also be certified, but please note that there are some specified modules which may have a prerequisite (e.g. BST First Aid module is a requirement for Enhanced First Aid)
• Get in touch with us, decide on the scope of the certification (the modules), then schedule together the dates of the Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits as the initial audit is divided into two parts.
• Stage 1 audit is a readiness audit, to check whether all the required physical resources have been allocated, the competent manpower provided and there is a quality management system in place to guarantee that the learning objectives can be achieved.
• Stage 2 audit is focusing on the delivery of the training modules, to verify the achievement of learning objectives. This can be accomplished with a real or a mock training.
  In addition to the training standards, it can be a great help to look at the GWO Taxonomy guidance, which can be found at the bottom of this page)
• Then we issue your certificate – after the payments are processed – you can start to deliver GWO Training. If major non-conformities were recorded, those need to be closed with corrective action, before your certificate can be issued.

How to maintain your GWO Training Provider status?

The GWO certification period is 2 years. It means that a surveillance or re-certification audit needs to be done.

• Surveillance audit within 12 months from your initial audit.
  During the surveillance audit, 50% of your training modules will be checked, focusing on the delivery of the training. (e.g. if you have four modules in total, then two of them will be audited)
• Re-certification audit within 24 months from your initial audit.
  During the re-certification audit, the other 50% of your training modules will be audited. (e.g. you have FA, WAH, FAW and MH, the FA, WAH modules were checked on the surveillance audit, then on the re-certification audit the FAW and the MH modules will be checked.)

This process provides a complete 100% check of the training modules during the 2 year period. That is how it goes forward year by year.

Do you want to certify new training modules and you are already a GWO Training Provider?

• this can be done during a surveillance or re-certification audit (need to plan extra time for that)
• or we can schedule an extraordinary audit if you have no time to wait until your next ongoing audit
• if CERTOP Ltd. is not yet your GWO certification partner, we need to transfer your GWO certification first – this is a common administrative process between certification bodies, allowed by GWO

You can ask for GWO Standards Quotation here.

Facility management (FM) integrates multiple disciplines in order to have an influence on the efficiency and productivity of economies of societies, communities and organizations, as well as the manner in which individuals interact with the built environment. FM affects the health, well-being and quality of life of much of the world’s societies and population through the services it manages and delivers.

ISO 41001 Facility Management. Management systems. Requirements with guidance for use standard provides the basis for a common, unified interpretation and understanding of facility management. It represents uniform guideline, the formulated requirements are non-sector specific and intended to be applicable to all organizations, or parts thereof, whether public or private sector, and regardless of the type, size and nature of the organization or geographical location. Furthermore, due to the identical structure of management systems, FM can be easily integrated with other management systems.

Based on the best international practices, ISO 41001 management system standard forms the basis for designing and managing an effective strategic, tactical and operational FM system. The aim of the standard is to increase quality, coordinate services more effectively, strengthen communication and stimulate productivity. Due to the evaluability and measurability of the system, it also provides assistance to organizations that outsource facility management processes, as well as service providers who will be able to prove their compliance with the standard.

HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety, from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs measurements to reduce these risks to a safe level. The HACCP system can be used at all stages of a food chain, from food production and preparation processes including packaging, distribution, etc.

The HACCP scheme meets the requirements of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) – established by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to bring together international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice to ensure fair trade.

With the Certification of HACCP you will have a degree of confidence required by consumers, retailers and buyers within the food industry.

ISO 22716:2007 gives guidelines for the production, control, storage and shipment of cosmetic products. These guidelines cover the quality aspects of the product, but as a whole do not cover safety aspects for the personnel engaged in the plant, nor do they cover aspects of protection of the environment.

As of 11 July 2013, the European Union’s new Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 requires cosmetic products to be manufactured according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) one way to demonstrate compliance with GMP is to implement the international standard ISO 22716:2007.
The standard’s guidelines provide your organization with practical methods for managing the many factors that can affect product quality.

ISO 17100:2015 is a specific European quality standard developed especially for translation services providers. The ISO 17100 standard ensures the consistent quality of the service.

Many European translation companies have long felt the need for a reliable method of demonstrating the quality of the services they provide to their customers. Many sought ISO 9001 certification as a demonstration of their commitment to quality management systems. However, as the ISO 9001 standard does not address the sort of translation-specific processes which many translators consider important in determining quality outcomes, this standard did not become widely accepted as a “guarantee of quality” in the industry. EN-15038 was approved and published by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) in 2006. This standard is gaining acceptance worldwide and the European Union has begun including it as a benchmark in its tender specifications.

ISO 18587 standard is intended to be used by TSPs, their clients, and post-editors, and provides requirements for the process of full, human post-editing of machine translation output and post-editors’ competences.

The standard is only applicable to content processed by MT systems, for translation services in general, see ISO 17100.

The use of machine translation (MT) systems to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding translation and localization industry has been gaining ground. Many translation service providers (TSPs) and clients have come to realize that the use of such systems is a viable solution for translating projects that need to be completed within a very tight time frame and/or with a reduced budget. When an MT system is used, clients can have material translated that can otherwise not be translated; translation costs can be decreased and the launch of products on specific markets, as well as the flow of information, can be accelerated. On the other hand, TSPs are able to:

• improve translation productivity;
• improve turn-around times;
• remain competitive in an environment where clients show an increasing demand for using MT in translation.

However, there is no MT system with an output which can be qualified as equal to the output of human translation and, therefore, the final quality of the translation output still depends on human translators and, for this purpose, their competence in post-editing.

The rate at which MT systems are changing renders it impractical to produce an overarching International Standard on these systems, which could stifle innovation or be ignored by the translation technology development industry.

This document therefore restricts its provisions to that part of the process that begins upon the delivery of the MT output and the beginning of the human process that is known as post-editing.

The standard entitled Requirements and competencies defines the requirements and competencies related to pest control services that must be met by professionals of pest management services in order to protect public health, property and the environment. This European Standard applies to organisations which are responsible for pest management services, including the assessment, recommendation and subsequent implementation of specified eradication and prevention procedures. The requirements developed in this standard are designed to apply to all service providers operating within this scope, namely the targeted application of appropriate pest control methods in a given area.

The standard does not apply to services provided in the following areas:

• agricultural plant protection;
• routine cleaning and disinfection associated with regular contract cleaning services.

The certified system ensures that the organization meets the requirements of the standard, strengthens customer confidence, and can be an advantage in winning applications.