Certified clients may use the International Assessment Bureau certification mark, subject to the conditions below. These conditions exist to protect the integrity and credibility of the mark for every certified organisation.
What the Mark Represents
The certification mark indicates that your management system has been assessed and certified against a specific standard, for a specific scope. It is a mark of management system certification — it does not certify, and must never be used to imply certification of, a specific product, process or service.
Permitted Use
- The mark may be used on stationery, marketing material, your website and vehicles, provided it is reproduced accurately and without alteration to its design, colours or proportions.
- Where used, the mark should be accompanied, on request, by a reference to the standard and certificate number it relates to.
- The mark must only be used for the scope actually covered by your current, valid certificate.
Prohibited Use
- The mark must not be placed on a product, its packaging, or on a test, calibration or inspection report in a way that could be interpreted as product certification.
- The mark must not be used in any way that could mislead interested parties about the nature, scope or validity of certification.
- The mark must not be used on a document relating to a nonconforming or uncertified activity.
Suspension, Withdrawal or Expiry
If certification is suspended, withdrawn, or allowed to expire, all use of the certificate and mark must stop immediately, and any related claims of certification must be removed from marketing material, signage, stationery and websites.
Misuse of the certificate or mark may result in corrective action being required, suspension or withdrawal of certification, and, where appropriate, legal action.