SA8000: Separate preparation, assessment and transition costs

Separate preparation, assessment and transition costs

A group adding a second location needs a revised scope, workforce and assessment plan before a comparable quotation. Separate consultancy, necessary implementation, programme training and CAB assessment charges. Existing certification also needs its real edition and transition route checked. Neither a self-assessment fee nor an old audit price establishes the full cost or date of a new-edition decision.

Quote work packages and decision boundaries

Budget gap review, record corrections, worker-access arrangements, official programme training and CAB assessment separately. Sites, workforce arrangements, missing evidence and substantive corrections affect timing. State the quotation’s follow-up and repeat-review scope. The applicant implements the system and prepares procedures specific to its own operations and operating records. A certification enquiry to Kayra concerns actual activities, sites, application information, authority and impartiality risks; this role does not include designing or implementing the client’s system. A management-system certification body, other parts of the same legal entity and controlled entities cannot offer or provide management-system consultancy; separate contracts do not remove this restriction.

Link transition to the correct audit

An existing certified organisation transitions at recertification, not at a surveillance audit. Check SAI’s cohort timetable against the last certification year and the CAB’s approval. Completing training and self-assessment by 31 December 2026 does not mean every organisation must recertify that day. Record the learning deadline and the applicable transition audit as separate obligations instead of one generic reminder.

Official sources

Checked: 3 October 2026. Worked examples are hypothetical evidence-planning cases, not customer transactions.

• sa-intl.org
• sa-intl.org
• sa-intl.org