What characterizes Quality Austria?
The leading Austrian contact for
the Integrated Management System
We are the leading Austrian contact for the Integrated Management System, based on quality, environmental and OH&S (occupational health and safety) management, and the topic of business excellence.
Our main focuses are system and product certification, training and personal certification. We are accredited by Akkreditierung Austria for system, product as well as personal certification and have many international registrations and accreditations. Furthermore, we present the Austrian Excellence Award together with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy and award the Austria Quality Seal. Additionally, we organize several forums and conferences and have issued numerous publications. We participate actively in standardization bodies and international networks such as EOQ, IQNet and EFQM.
Since our company was founded in 2004, we have welcomed more than 100,000 people in around 12,000 courses, carried out around 185,000 audits, assessments and reviews, and accompanied companies on their individual path to success with around 300 tailor-made in-house training courses per year.
We continuously adapt our range of products and services to the needs of the market, social trends and our customers and support them in focusing on long-term goals!
System and Product certification, verification and validation.
As an independent certification body we conduct conformity assessments on the basis of international standards and regulations. Thus we assess and confirm that relevant requirements (such as those of ISO 9001, the quality management standard) are being adhered to. We predominantly certify systems, products and services as well as persons in line with the accreditation regulations of Akkreditierung Austria.
From the beginning, qualityaustria audit design has been focused on creating value for our customers.
- Customer expectations significantly influence audit objectives and benefits.
- Auditor competence is of extreme importance.
- Performance and effect of the audited Integrated Management System is crucial.
- People meet each other during an audit.
- Auditing with the right attitude and values leads to the desired audit quality.
Quality Austria – Trainings, Zertifizierungs und Begutachtungs GmbH is accredited by Akkreditierung Austria in the areas of management systems acc. to ISO/IEC 17021, certification of persons acc. to ISO/IEC 17024 and certification of products acc. to ISO/IEC 17065.
Fairness, impartiality and validity of our procedures and certification programmes are guaranteed and confirmed continuously. We have the broadest accreditation scope in Austria and as an accreditation body we are committed to ensure independence and objectivity.
We are the national representative of IQNet and are therefore
authorized to issue the worldwide esteemed IQNet certificates.
Training and certification of persons.
For a personal certification the competencies and qualifications of a person are being reviewed and the conformity with the respective certification programme is assessed. Our customer focus and the national accreditation as personal certification body according to ISO/IEC 17024 by Akkreditierung Austria guarantee a high and recognized standard on a national and European level.
The primary objective of our trainings is the increase of competence of all participants on a long term basis.
This objective goes far beyond the mere imparting of knowledge and is supported by didactic and organizational measures. As for the contents, we put our focus on practice and value creation. Therefore, we combine the newest findings from studies, trend analyses, developments of standards and reports from practice with our practical know-how. With our webinars, online courses and information events we constantly aim to maximize value for our customers by staying on top of latest developments.
qualityaustria certificates have an outstanding reputation and are objective proof of competence due to their internationally accepted processes of examination, assessment and re-certification based on the EN ISO/IEC 17024 standard. We offer more than 50 certification programmes, most of them are nationally accredited.
The harmonization and recognition of our training offer in the nearly 40 countries of the European Organization for Quality (EOQ) guarantee a very high and renowned standard on a national and European level.
Quality Austria is aware of the importance of impartiality when acting as a certification body. In order to guarantee objectivity when conducting certification activities, the handling of potential conflicts of interest has been included in the management system of Quality Austria.
Our product portfolio
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Food Safety
Global markets and complex products require safety with the help of standards.
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Health, Social Services and Health Tourism
The dynamic health sector needs working systems.
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