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REAL's Compost Certification Scheme template documents
 
The templates downloadable from this webpage have been developed by Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd. to assist compost producers in implementing the quality management system (QMS) required for achieving certification.
 
The templates are numbered for ease of setting up a complete filing system for Quality Management System documents. 

Document 00 'Content and instructions' shows which documents should be used if seeking certification to PAS 100 and the Compost Quality Protocol and which documents should be used if seek certification to 'PAS 100 only'.
 
You can download each template below or, alternatively, you can request a zipped version of the pack from REAL by email ( qualitycompost@r-e-a.net).
 
QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ~ TEMPLATES & EXTERNAL DOCUMENTS
 
00 Contents and instructions
 
01 REAL's Compost Certification Scheme Rules Issue 1 Revision 6
 
02 Application form (for initial certification and certification's renewal)
 
03 Inspection report template (for CB's use)
 
04 Control of documents and records
 
05 QMS and Quality Policy
 
06a HACCP template for compost products
 
07 Standard Operating Procedures
 
08 Competence, training, and supervision record sheet
 
09 Temperature monitoring system calibration record sheet
 
10a Input load inspection record sheet
 
10b Input supplier agreement template (optional, but recommended to control risks associated with herbicides clopyralid and picloram if compost is used in sensitive applications)
 
10c Rejected loads record sheet (this shall be used only if template 10a is not used)
 
10d Input materials specification template for composters/waste suppliers contracts ~ garden wastes only NEW!
 
10e Input materials specification template for composters/waste suppliers contracts ~ garden & food wastes NEW!
 
11a Batch formation and monitoring record sheet, 11b Batch screening, maturation and sampling record sheet and 12 Batch appraisal record sheet
 
13 Compost analysis request templates:
13a - Principal grade not used in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture
13b - Additional grade not used in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture
13c - Any grade – selected tests / retests
13d - Principal grade used in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture
 
14 Failed batch investigation record sheet
 
15a Compost quality history template for principal grade (template for collating results for principal grade)
 
15b Compost quality history (template for collating results for additional grade)
 
16 Process validation record sheet
 
17 QMS management review record sheet
 
18 QMS Internal audit record sheet - composters to create their own record
 
19 Test failure notification record sheet
 
20 Compost supply to agriculture and soil-grown horticulture
20a Model contract for use of certified compost in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture ~ one off contract to be signed by both, the composter and the land manager
 
20b Dispatch note for use of certified compost in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture ~ to be used for each compost consignment in conjunction with model contract 20a
 
Land managers (with FACTS qualification or equivalent) should continue to plan and record compost use in these markets using REAL's Excel spreadsheet 20e.
 
20e REAL's excel spreadsheet to record compost use in agriculture and soil-grown horticulture
 
21 Supply document for soft landscape market
22 Supply document for land restoration operations 
 
23 Supply document for amateur and professional horticulture
24 Product dispatch information Sheet for all markets ('PAS 100 only') - templates
25 Supply document for forestry

USEFUL INFORMATION SHEETS

26 Complaint record sheet

28 Approved laboratories
 
29 Approved product additives
 
30 Guidelines on needlesticks and syringes
 
31 Guidelines on composting noxious weeds
 
32 Compost sampling guidelines
 
33 Compost safety (handling and use) guidelines
 
34 Conformity declaration and use of the Association for Organics Recycling's certification mark
 
35 Guidelines for sampling and testing the soil according to the Compost Quality Protocol requirements
 
36 AfOR information sheet on managing the risks of herbicides in composting systems
 
38 Guidance on composting paper and cardboard
 
39 Guidance on Legionella
 
Last update on this webpage: 20/02/2013
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