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About Orion Assessment Services

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The Orion team has you covered.

Are you tired of delays in receiving certificates, chasing unresponsive audit firms, or dealing with auditors that don’t understand your business? Maybe you’ve received unsupported audit findings, or had expensive multi-standard audits? The Orion team has you covered.

Orion Assessment Services (Orion) is an independent standards auditing firm specializing in certifying or accrediting organizations to corporate, national, international, or internal standards.

Our aim is to make the auditing process a positive experience for our clients by understanding their needs, setting mutual goals, and providing audits with minimal intrusion and exceptional service. This ensures expectations are clear and helps to maintain our exemplary customer satisfaction rate.

Privately owned and operated, we implement audit programs for corporate, industry, international, and internal standards. Our audit team includes multilingual auditors based across North America with expertise in virtually all industry sectors.

Whether your business needs to implement international standards or establish a plan for an entirely new set of standards for your industry or association, Orion is a fully qualified partner that can help you achieve your goals.

We can also combine the audit activities so that you can obtain certification to multiple standards in one visit, saving you both time and money.

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Our Strengths

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Consolidating audits for specific industry or association standards with international programs, such as ISO, to minimize disruptions to your business.

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Delivering international audit programs with local, professional, and personal service.

The Orion Difference

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Experienced – With our 15+ years of industry experience, we are a partner you can rely on. Our team has worked with thousands of organizations throughout their careers to successfully bring them through the certification process.

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Customer Focused – As a smaller business, we provide a more “personal touch” than many larger multinational alternatives. We believe in the importance of getting to know you, understanding your needs, and helping you meet your goals.

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Reputable – Our customer satisfaction rate is over 99% and we can proudly say that we have never lost a client due to service issues. Over the years, we have helped clients switch to Orion from almost every large North American certification body due to quality issues with many of our competitors.

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Triple Endorsed – We are the only firm endorsed by three industry associations to audit their membership.

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Knowledgeable – We know your industry, typical processes, software, and terminology. This ensures efficient and effective audits.

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Giving – Orion believes in giving back to the industries that support us and contributes to various sectors, such as the language industry, by sponsoring industry events and providing free webinars on standards.

Associations We Work With

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ALC (Association of Language Companies) – to certify their members to ASTM F3130
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Canadian Language Industry Association – to certify their members to standards such as CGSB 131.10 Translation Services Standard, ISO 17100, ISO 18587, and NSGCIS throughout North America

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Languages Canada – to accredit their memberships to the Languages Canada Quality Assurance Scheme
Austrian Standards Institute – to provide ISO 17100, CGSB 131.10 and NSGCIS certification in Canada

Associations We Work With

ALC (Association of Language Companies) – to certify their members to ASTM F3130

Canadian Language Industry Association – to certify their members to standards such as CGSB 131.10 Translation Services Standard, ISO 17100, ISO 18587, and NSGCIS throughout North America

Languages Canada – to accredit their memberships to the Languages Canada Quality Assurance Scheme
Austrian Standards Institute – to provide ISO 17100, CGSB 131.10 and NSGCIS certification in Canada

How Orion Started

Orion’s managing partners had over twenty-five years of industry experience before founding our company. Working at various levels for larger certification bodies, they realized that many people perceive standards audits as confrontational, unpleasant, or non-value experiences that they would rather avoid.

They founded Orion to turn the audit experience into a positive one by understanding clients’ needs, setting mutual goals, and providing superior audit services with minimal intrusion of business operations.

As a smaller company, Orion can offer certain things that bloated multinationals simply can’t. Our customers love our personalized services, our transparency, and the fact that we are not weighed down by heavy layers of bureaucracy. Having an owner who is also an engineer and former auditor means the company is run from the perspective of someone with first-hand experience working in industry.

Who We Help

Orion has experience in offering standards accreditations and audits in virtually all industry sectors. 

Although our focus is on the Manufacturing, IT, Language, Recycling, Medical, Transportation, and Education sectors, we are always open to implementing new standards and accreditations for our customers. If there is a need and a market, Orion will implement an effective auditing solution.

Contact us today to tell us about your new standards and let us help you implement them effectively.

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