How does SCC certification work?

management system certification has a three-year certification cycle. Depending on the certification year, an initial, periodic or recertification audit is relevant for you.
If you are not yet certified, we start with the initial audit in two phases. We examine whether your documented quality management meets the SCC standard.
Then we determine whether your management system is sufficiently implemented and effective.

At most one year after the initial audit, we conduct the first periodic audit and the second one about a year after that. We assess whether your management system is continuously functioning and improving.
At least three months before the validity of your certificate expires, we assess all components of the scheme in a recertification audit. Possibly in two stages if a lot has changed in the meantime. We then conduct another periodic audit two years in a row.

Read more about the process here.