Certiva Consultancy UK was founded on a simple idea: the best person to get you ready for a certification audit — and every surveillance and recertification audit after it — is someone who's actually conducted them, inside a real, UKAS-accredited certification body.
Certiva Consultancy UK was founded and is run by Dario Palitta, a talented young professional. With a naturally sharp, analytical mind, Dario has an innate ability to read situations and produce practical, effective solutions. This quality of outcome comes from the combination of an agile mind — capable of spotting new possibilities and translating them into potential — with the rigour that comes from solid technical and professional foundations. A simple, practical way of organising work, easy to manage, means that every step becomes an opportunity to surface points of weakness before they become real problems, turning them instead into factors for innovation — an added value, without a doubt, for any kind of business and production process. All of this can be summed up in three words: quality, reliability and innovation. Last but certainly not least: while it's true that clothes don't make the man, it's equally true that a pleasant, polished presentation, combined with honest, clear and effective communication, is the first step toward solving problems.
Dario is an ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor with hands-on third-party auditing experience gained as a Subcontracting Auditor within a UKAS-accredited certification body, operating to ISO/IEC 17021-1. In that role he's conducted Stage 1 readiness reviews, Stage 2 certification audits, and surveillance and recertification audits across a wide range of industries — evaluating management systems for conformity, raising and grading nonconformities, and producing the technically robust audit reports that go into formal technical review.
That certification-body background is what sets Certiva Consultancy UK apart. Most consultants have only ever seen an ISO audit from the client's side. Dario sits on the assessment side of the table — he knows exactly what an auditor is checking for, how evidence gets sampled, and where businesses typically lose points, because he's the one grading them.
Alongside his Lead Auditor qualification, Dario holds a NEBOSH certification in ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management, giving Certiva Consultancy UK's roadmap from 9001 through to 14001 real technical grounding rather than a generic template approach.
Bilingual in English and Italian, Dario works with clients in person across the UK and in Italy — bringing the same accredited-body rigour to both markets under the Certiva Consultancy UK name.
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