Companies face risks every day; they are part of normal business life. In a climate where undesirable events as well as missed opportunities may impact on profits and shareholder value, it is crucial to strike the right balance between risk adversity and conscious risk-taking. To do this it is essential to understand the complex picture of not only financial but also technological, environmental and social risks relevant to your company.

Risk Based Certification aims to assist your company achieve its business goals by focusing the audit on the areas and issues most critical to your operations.

Risk Based Certification^TM, our new approach to management system certification, is specifically designed to help you build and maintain systems that assess and mitigate these risks, assisting you on your road towards growth and value creation. Based on the recognition that each company is different and has its own specific needs, DNV's Risk Based Certification^TM brings each audit even closer to your company focus.

We add value to the general approach offered through certification to international standards by inviting management to identify the issues of greatest concern. The identified focus areas receive specific attention during the next audit. In this way, we can tailor audits to focus on what is most important to your business while checking compliance with the elected standard.

Efficient audit
The capability of your management system to address your challenges is assessed in each audit and previous results are used to build a baseline for evaluating improvements. The audit report gives you immediate feedback on your focus areas, allowing you to increase your knowledge and understanding of how they impact on daily operations. You will gain more knowledge on how these challenges might be linked and on their overall potential effect on company goals.

In this way, the audit output moves beyond compliance evaluation to become an effective management tool, helping you to achieve continual performance improvement and compete effectively in a dynamic and changing business environment.

In DNV you will find a supportive and proactive partner who helps you maintain and develop your management system in a way that remains consistent with your business objectives. By providing better information to top management on the organisation’s ability to meet strategic objectives, we offer you greater value than any other certification body.

The path to sustainable growth
Understanding and finding solutions to your strategic challenges through a tailored approach and effective evaluation is the cornerstone of DNV's Risk Based Certification^TM.
By focusing on the relationship between your business goals and operational processes, Risk Based Certification^TM helps you identify and mitigate risk, increases your ability to meet objectives, and enhances stakeholders' trust in your company. Risk Based Certification^TM assesses your critical issues, allowing you to streamline your own resources and processes.

You can reduce time spent reacting to events, and define your own customised path towards business improvement and sustainable growth. This continuous journey that your company and DNV take together is a unique process tailored to your specific needs, focusing on what is important to you.