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Standards Overview
These International Standards are known and used around the world so when your customers ask which standards you are working to you can tell them "probably the same ones that they are working to".

ISO 9001 Quality Standard
The latest Quality Standard is far more user friendly than its previous versions making it easier and less time consuming to maintain, designed to offer organisations of all sizes and styles the chance to conform to the same standards of quality and customer focus that all our customers want. Quality Management is not just about compliance with a set of standards. It's about developing a competitive edge. Opening up new markets, showing clients, customers, and employees your commitment to best practice. Stimulating a quality culture which will energise your entire organisation.

Benefits Include:

• Improved productivity and efficiency, often leading to cost reductions.
• Improved consistency of service/product performance and therefore higher customer satisfaction levels.
• Improved perception of the organisation's image, culture and performance.
• Improved communication, morale and job satisfaction - staff understand what is expected of them.
• Competitive advantage and the potential for increased marketing and sales opportunities.

ISO 14001 Environmental Standard
We are all becoming more "environmentally aware" of what we do and how we do it - so are our customers to the extent that, more and more users of our products and services question not only what we do but how we do it, and in some parts of the world suppliers cannot even get on to a tender list unless they can demonstrate their "environmentally friendly" approach. This does of course bring advantages of lower costs due to energy saving, recycling etc. Some of the documentation required for this standard is the same as is needed for ISO 9001 with no duplication necessary, thus there is a cost saving if both standards are introduced at the same time.

OHSAS 18001 Health & Safety
It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that the risks to health & safety in the work place are properly assessed and managed so as to minimise the possibility of accident or incident to employees or others that might have access to the site. Plus, in most cases, a company's staff are their most valuable asset and will work more efficiently in a safe environment. This standard or an equivalent is needed to control your codes of practice for health and safety in the work place by ensuring that your procedures, policies and work practices are safe for your staff and others. Any employer that neglects these responsibilities is risking the welfare of their staff, and their business, as well as the wrath of the Health & Safety authorities. Common sense and safe practice saves lives and money, this is the message behind the standard.

ISO 17799 Information Security Standard
With new technology and greater emphasis on storing personal and security sensitive data this new standard is fast becoming a must for some companies, in fact some of the major "blue chip" companies insist on it being in place before a supplier can be approved for use. They need to know that suppliers have in place the controls to protect their data from falling into the wrong hands. Some of the documentation required for this standard is the same as is needed for ISO 9001 with no duplication necessary, thus there is a cost saving if both standards are introduced at the same time.