The SABS Mark Scheme

The SABS Mark is a highly recognisable symbol of credibility and a powerful marketing tool, which reinforces your product’s intrinsic features. It strengthens your point-of-sale impact, and gives your product greater credibility and prestige in the market place.

The ongoing improvement of your quality system is an essential part of the SABS Mark Scheme and is therefore a clear demonstration of your company’s dedication to quality management.

SABS Auditing

An audit is an activity that companies conduct to evaluate, confirm and verify processes related to the quality, security and safety of products and services so that companies are able to ensure the management system has been effectively implemented

What is an Internal / 1st Party Audit

• An organisation auditing its own systems, a self-assessment
• Used to measure the strengths & weaknesses against requirements, and its own standards

What is an External / 2nd Party Audit

• Also known as Supplier Auditing - comprehensive evaluation performed by a customer to ensure that supplier is operating under a state of control
• One organisation auditing another with which it has, or is going to have, a contract or agreement for the supply of goods or services

What is an Internal / 3rd Party Audit

• Audit carried out by a certification body independent of the client and the user, for the purpose of certifying the client’s management system