Moving to a new location

Hi,

What happens and what to expect when moving to a new location? It is a completely different address, building, around 25km away.

Our reaudit for BRCGS is going to be less than 1 month before we move. Is this considered a new initial audit or is there some kind of transfer process? Will the records from our old site be audited as part of the new site?

We are audited annually with the 3rd audit to be unannounced. Next year would have been the unannounced audit, but will that count be reset?

I know we need to contact the certification body, and we have already told them we have this plan but I do not have much information beyond that they will come to the new location for an audit. I would be happy to peel away some records and start fresh on some things if possible (still retaining the records).

Is there any info/advice? Thanks

The certificate is attached to a physical location, not a corporation name

There is NO POINT in having you're recert audit, when the cert will expire as soon as you move locations

You will be starting  from scratch  see the link below

https://www.brcgs.co...ion-process.pdf

And from the lack of proper communication from your CB, perhaps now is a good time to find a new one

New physical location, new certificate.

You will be expected to fully reassess and revalidate all of your programs to make sure they are appropriate and applicable to the new facility too.

I know it's super tempting to start from scratch with every system when you build a new facility but my only words of caution are, make sure you resource that work. I absolutely would do the same but I've worked on too many new build and major change projects which haven't been fully resourced and it's pretty painful to both maintain what you have and build new while you've got everything else going on with a new site as well.

So questions of BRCGS aside, I'd see if you can get some extra resource so you can release a couple of key people from their day to day jobs to build up better.