DQS Inc. is part of the international DQS Group with more than 80 offices in over 60 countries. DQS GmbH and UL Management Systems Solutions (MSS) merged in 2008. With their alliance, Germany’s first certification body for management systems and the MSS business unit of America’s most renowned product certifier Underwriters Laboratories (UL) achieved a place among the leading certification bodies for management systems in the world.

DQS Inc. is pleased to be able to offer ANAB accredited certification to the new ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management System standard. On March 12, 2018, the new ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System standard was released.   As the first Internationally recognized health and safety standard, ISO 45001 is designed to […]

This webinar goes over the major changes of the new ISO 13485:2016 standard, including the upgrade process. Program Manager Rick Burgess presented and responded to questions live on the webinar.

Chuck Blair, Regional Automotive Program Manager, and Mike Brannock, Automotive SBU Director, go through the highlights of the changes from TS 16949 to IATF 16949.

This webinar focuses on the significant changes between the previous and 2015 revisions of both ISO9001 and ISO14001 and review/clarify the transition process. Presenters include:

• Joe Mansour, ISO 9001 Program Manager, DQS Inc.
• Candace Orbaugh, Sustainability Business and Programs Manager, DQS Inc.

Learn about SQF Code, Edition 8 with this webinar. The speaker is LeAnn Chuboff, Vice President Technical Affairs at Safe Quality Food Institute, with an introduction from Lisa Brandon, Vice President of Business Development at DQS.

As one of the top certification bodies in the world, DQS Inc. is happy to share our expertise. We host a variety of live webinars throughout the year that allow for a question and answer session after the presentation. To further assist our audience, we record these webinars and make them available here on our website. Please see below for our past recorded webinars.

In order to support customers’ growing global needs, Underwriter’s Laboratories Inc. (UL), an independent certification and testing company working for a safer world since 1894, merged its Management Systems Solutions business with DQS in 2008. DQS GmbHwas founded on February 1, 1985 by the German Society for Quality (DGQ) and (German Institute for Standardization (DIN)) to be the first German registrar for the certification of management systems. The two companies merged in 2008 to form one of the top certification bodies in the world.

Spread the word!  With the high satisfaction levels DQS receives from our customers, we are pleased to introduce a customer referral program.

Independence and Objectivity The executive management of DQS Inc. and all its subsidiaries respects the importance of impartiality in carrying our assessment and certification activities. Potential conflict of interest is managed in order to assure the objectivity of all certification activities including referral and other such arrangements.