About Us

About Us

Certification Standards

You're In Good Hands - Our People Are Our Business

Platinum provides you with the best certification services available while maintaining a grounded focus on your needs.

Our expertise ensures that we carefully select, train and use the best auditors in the business.  Our assessment teams partner with you to help you achieve conformance in a non-threatening and professionally courteous manner.   Our thoughtfully designed business processes are consistent, precise and professional from our first conversation to years beyond the initial certification experience. With Platinum, you’ll experience:
Ease in scheduling audits 
Our scheduling department is efficient, fast and reliable. We strive to keep audit date changes to a minimum. On the rare occasion that a schedule audit has to be rescheduled, you will be notified as early as possible and offered alternative dates that are convenient for you and your team. You will never be left hanging.
    Quick response times and stellar customer service 
    We won’t ever make you wait. You will receive a response within one business day when you contact us, whether for a quote or just a question – we’re here for you.
      Fast audit report turnaround time 
      No waiting for weeks or months; your audit reports will be delivered in 4 business days. Our reports are complete, clear and concise, leaving you with no unanswered questions.
        Receive your certificate in a timely manner 
        Once your audit is complete and has been reviewed, you will receive your certificate within 7 business days. You worked hard for the certificate, you deserve to receive it in a timely manner.
          Develop a rapport with your auditor 
          There’s nothing worse than having to explain your system year after year to a new auditor. We make every effort to maintain auditor continuity for the three year cycle. Platinum’s low stress audits make it easy for your team and your auditor to develop a rapport for consistent and efficient audits. 

          Local Auditors Whenever Possible

          We know you don’t have an unlimited budget. Our scheduling department will always try to match a qualified auditor closest to your locations for your audits whenever possible. 
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          Competitive Pricing With No Hidden Fees

          Platinum’s daily rates are extremely competitive. We challenge you to find a lower daily rate –just ask us for quote. You won’t be disappointed. Your quote package will include information about any travel-related fees. Platinum does not mark up or charge a flat fee for any required travel. You only pay the exact invoiced amount.

          Helping You Understand The Standard

          The benefits of conformance are only realized when requirements are clearly understood, and applied precisely.  Our auditors will make sure you clearly understand the requirement for the standard involved, thereby arming you with the information you need to determine the appropriate corrective action for your specific case.

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          You Know What’s Best For Your Business

          We respect the fact that your management team is the only group that should make decisions about what is best for your organization. We partner with you to help you prove that your business system meets the standard while respecting your approach. Our findings are supported by factual evidence and referenced against the requirements of the applicable standard. When you need to make adjustments, you will know exactly what to do.
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          Skilled, Professional Auditors

          Our auditors are professionally certified and undergo constant review and training by Platinum’s management team. Following our principles and methods to assure that they meet accreditation requirements, they provide the service that you should expect - a thorough, careful and confidential review of your business processes, not from the conference room, but where the work is actually performed.

          We Are Held To The Same High Standards

          Platinum’s entire business is quality. We follow the same high standards to which we expect your company to adhere.

          Our formal documented management system conforms to the requirements of ISO 17021 and ISO 9001 as well as the requirements of the ANAB and International Accreditation Forum (IAF). We implement rigorous internal management processes for interacting with our clients with measurable objectives in place.   

          How We Help You

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          Helping You Focus On Improvement

          We spend extra time helping you focus on the improvement requirements of the standard.  We help your company set realistic objectives that will benefit your organization, challenging you to use your management system to add real value to your business. Your customers demand ever-improving performance. With Platinum as your certification body, you can relax.  And so can your customers.
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          Asking Educated Questions

          Our skilled and experienced auditors ask educated questions about your company’s business processes, inspiring your management team to really evaluate their established processes for effectiveness and efficiency. Our auditors are seasoned experts and can bring fresh ideas to your organization without confusing conformance with improvement.
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          Sharing Achievements & Lessons Learned

          Without disclosing confidential information or intellectual property, we share the objectives, achievements and lessons learned among our clients. By hearing stories of real experiences, your management team will get new ideas and be better able to see how well your company is performing. We facilitate collaboration among our clients, giving them a chance to benchmark and improve performance.

          Helping You Focus On Improvement

          We spend extra time helping you focus on the improvement requirements of the standard.  We help your company set realistic objectives that will benefit your organization, challenging you to use your management system to add real value to your business. Your customers demand ever-improving performance. With Platinum as your certification body, you can relax.  And so can your customers.

          Asking Educated Questions

          Our skilled and experienced auditors ask educated questions about your company’s business processes, inspiring your management team to really evaluate their established processes for effectiveness and efficiency. Our auditors are seasoned experts and can bring fresh ideas to your organization without confusing conformance with improvement.

          Sharing Achievements & Lessons Learned

          Without disclosing confidential information or intellectual property, we share the objectives, achievements and lessons learned among our clients. By hearing stories of real experiences, your management team will get new ideas and be better able to see how well your company is performing. We facilitate collaboration among our clients, giving them a chance to benchmark and improve performance.

          Accreditation & Standards

          Platinum’s International Accreditation Forum (IAF) recognized, ANAB-accreditation for ISO 9001 and AS9100 quality management systems certifications assures that our internal operations are defined to meet specific requirements making our certification processes trusted and transferable.

          Through accredited partnership arrangements, we are also able to help you with other accredited management system certifications including: AS9110, AS9120, ISO 14001, ISO 13485 and ISO/IEC 20000 and ISO IEC 27001.

          We are happy to discuss your individual needs and help you decide which certifications will most benefit your company.

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          National & Global Certifications; Worldwide Contacts

           

          We currently operate in the United States and Canada, but we live in a global society. Being able to do business across boundaries is vital for any business. Platinum is poised to take care of business - our business – in just about any corner of the world, regardless of the language spoken. 

           

          In the off-chance that we do not operate in a particular region, we are happy to help you connect with a certification body that does. Our global network ensures that you will be in good hands. 

          No matter where your company is located.

          Please note that unacceptable safety or security risks for Platinum or accreditation assessors may prevent Platinum from operating in a particular geographic location. We adhere to restrictions and travel guidance posted on the travel.state.gov web site to mitigate these risks.


          In addition, because of United States government restrictions and other risks, Platinum cannot operate in the following countries: Afghanistan, Cuba (directly or through any other party), Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Russian Federation entities, Ukraine and Syria.

          Integrity & Impartiality - Guaranteed

          Our operating processes are designed to ensure that your audit is conducted in the most professional and impartial manner possible. Impartiality is extremely important in our industry, assuring that nobody questions the integrity of your independent assessment. We take appropriate precautions to avoid conflicts of interest through formal risk assessment processes and auditor declarations to assure this level of integrity to you and the community that relies on the results of our assessments. We address integrity and impartiality on a number of fronts:
          • Policy on Impartiality Management assures that our operating procedures include specific steps to assure impartiality.
          • Conflicts of Interest Using a formal Conflict of interest Analysis, we identify, analyze and document the possibilities for conflicts of interest and activities as well as from our relationships.  If identified, we carefully assess and manage these potential conflicts of interest.
          • Restriction of Services We will not provide certification services to organizations where an unacceptable threat to impartiality is detected.
          • Care with Consulting – We are not a legal part of a consultancy, nor do we provide consulting services.
          • Care with Outsourcing – We do not outsource assessment activities to management system consultancy organizations.
          • Care in Marketing – We do not market our certification services with consultancy services.  We make no claims that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if a specified consultancy organization were to be used.
          • Careful Selection of Personnel – We carefully select personnel to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest with personnel who have provided management system consultancy services, including those acting in a management capacity, by not allowing these individuals to audit clients that they have consulted to for two years following the end of the consultancy.
          • We Act on Threats to Impartiality – We take actions to address any detected threat to impartiality arising from the actions of other persons, bodies or organizations.
          • We Educate on Impartiality and Set Appropriate Expectations – We require all Platinum representatives who could influence our certification activities to behave in an impartial manner and not allow pressures to compromise their impartiality.
          • We Demand Transparency – We require that all Platinum representatives reveal any situation known to them that may present them or Platinum with a conflict of interest.  We require this in our employment and subcontract agreement and we request this to be considered with each job assignment.
          • We Survey for Perceptions We issue annual surveys to investigate our clients’ perceptions about the impartiality of our operations and personnel, addressing any issues of concern in a process-based manner.
          • We Empower our Impartiality Committee We utilize an independent committee that is responsible for safeguarding impartiality through policy development and that provides advice on matters affecting confidence and public perception.  This committee performs annual reviews of our operational processes related to impartiality.

          Platinum- Making a Difference

          The Difference Maker Movement was started by a young boy named Kylan when he was just 9 years old, because, he wanted to change the world. He met some very special people who believed he could. Kylan’s desire is to show others that no matter your age or income, you can make a difference to someone. It could be someone in your neighborhood, in your school, or around the world.  Kylan has helped bring education, books, clean water, medicine, anti-bullying projects, career training for girls and women, toys, school supplies and food to communities in need.  His impact has been both local and global.  
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          Now Kylan is spreading the word and helping others to become Difference Makers. Colorado is so lucky to have this young philanthropist in our midst. His work has been recognized by local news and by our Governor in the creation of Difference Maker Day.
          For every new client that mentions this program, Platinum will donate $100.00 to Kylan’s Difference Maker Movement to help make positive change happen.

          Did you know that anyone can be a Difference Maker? For ideas on how you can impact your community, visit theDifference Maker website.
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