Why choose NSI as your certification body?
Why choose NSI as your certification body?
Why choose NSI as your certification body?
Why choose NSI as your certification body?
NSI certification is the most recognised and respected mark for security and fire safety services buyers across the UK.
With over 50 years of certification experience, NSI independently audits over 2000 organisations from local providers to those with a national reach, offering the highest reassurance to buyers and specifiers. Quite simply, it’s the mark of excellence for service providers within these sectors.
Take your business to the next level by gaining NSI’s coveted certification:
- Increase opportunities to secure new contracts through tenders and buyers who specify NSI certification.
- NSI audits offer invaluable insights into your business processes, helping you to optimise performance, achieve best practice and boost customer satisfaction. Our experienced and highly trained auditing team have an unrivalled understanding of the relevant British and European Standards and industry Codes of Practice.
- Build trust and confidence amongst your clients as they see your business is open to independent scrutiny by the UK’s leading specialist certification body. NSI is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, ensuring our certification services are delivered in line with ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 (management systems) and ISO/IEC 17065:2012 (product conformity certification).
- NSI certification helps mitigate your risk through increased and verifiable technical competence and continual improvement processes.
- Proudly showcase the prestigious NSI mark of excellence on your website, marketing materials and vehicles. Recognised nationally by buyers and specifiers alike, use of the NSI logo instantly conveys your professionalism.
- Increase your reach through NSI’s Company Finder, verifying your approval and connecting you directly with potential buyers seeking trusted security and fire safety providers.
- Once certified you will have a dedicated auditor and account manager for seamless certification support. Your account manager will be your main point of contact for efficient management of certification queries.
- Stay at the forefront of industry advancements with NSI’s regular Circular Letters and Technical Bulletins communicating Standards updates and other relevant industry news.
- Once certified you can take advantage of NSI’s online Standards subscription service, giving you access to all the Standards applicable to your approval for a nominal annual fee.
- NSI is an official ‘BSI Distributor’ offering electronic or hard copies of Standards at preferential rates throughout your certification journey.
- Findings, improvement needs and outcomes from audits are treated confidentially by NSI and never disclosed to third parties.
- Keep your team up to date with industry standards by attending NSI training courses encompassing technical and management areas. Our courses are delivered by in-house experts and are available at our offices in Maidenhead, onsite at your offices (minimum numbers apply) and via e-learning. Practical training courses delivered by Tavcom Training are also accessible at a discounted rate to NSI approved companies.
- As a not-for-profit certification body, NSI has no shareholders to satisfy and benefits from an independent Board which includes representation from the insurance sector and an observer from the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The Board is structured in such a way that no single interest dominates.
- NSI actively scrutinises impartiality across all areas of its business, reviewing and monitoring risks to impartiality.
- By choosing NSI your company will join the UK’s leading security and fire safety providers – become NSI approved and enjoy advantages that will help transform your business into an industry leader.
What NSI certified companies say
Sian Doherty MSyl, Managing Director at Arc Monitoring
“Arc Monitoring has proudly held NSI Gold certification for over 10 years. Each year our audits provide true value by ensuring we continue to meet the highest standards in remote monitoring services and continuously drive improvement. NSI is the scaffolding that supports and reinforces the services Arc Monitoring provides, we wouldn’t be without them.”
Erhan Yildiran, Head of security at Clipfine
"Obtaining NSI Gold certification has enhanced our credibility, reputation and increased customer confidence in our service. Also, having recently concluded a two-day ACS Passport audit with NSI, Clipfine received its highest score to date, clearly demonstrating our ongoing commitment to offering the highest standards of service to our customers."
Sarah Steer, Director at Astra Security
“Astra Security’s NSI Gold certification provides reassurance to our clients that our service is of the highest standard. We have elected to comply with relevant British and International Standards and NSI Codes of Practice, independently verified through our audits. We’re pleased to be able to continue to be certified by this organisation and have year on year demonstrated our commitment to NSI Gold certification."
Paul Gillings, CEO at Monatrix
"NSI Gold certification shows our clients and partners that we take security seriously. It is confirmation of our high standards and gives our clients confidence that they will receive a well-designed and installed system."
Adam Baxendale, Sales Director at Lansafe
"We have always as a business prided ourselves on high standards and NSI certification assists in recognising this. We are thorough in our processes from design, maintenance and monitoring to installation which is all recognised within our NSI Gold sta
Mark McGoldrick, Director of CCTV/Access Control & Security Divisions at Panthera Group
"The scaffold alarm industry is saturated with installers, but what really sets us apart is our NACOSS Gold certification."
Peter Harrison, Managing Director at FGH Security
“NSI Gold is a true quality mark. It goes a few steps beyond the ACS. You’re not going to attain and maintain NSI Gold standards without knowing the industry well and having some degree of passion about quality.”
NSI approval options
Gold
NSI’s premier schemes are designed for companies who meet the industry’s highest technical standards and maintain a commitment to continual improvement with an ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
Silver
NSI's Silver schemes are designed as a stepping stone towards Gold schemes.
It requires companies to meet the same high level of technical competence as the Gold schemes.