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 BS EN ISO-9001 Quality Management

This is the world’s most recognised quality management standard and is used in over one million company’s worldwide.

The ISO-9001standard is based on several Quality Management Principles and prescribes systematic control of your processes that your business uses. It is designed and intended to apply to virtually any process or service and can help your company to become more efficient and perform much better through Improved customer satisfaction, staff motivation and continual improvement.

• ​Improved employee engagement, as a result of defining their key roles and responsibilities, and encouraging effective internal communications
• Cost savings are achieved through streamlining business processes, reducing waste, and improving the quality of your management systems.
• Increased Customer Satisfaction by meeting customer requirements consistently. The continual improvement focus of ISO 9001 helps ensure that you are continually responding to and meeting the ever-changing needs of your customers.
• Increased competitiveness when applying to become part of Approved Suppliers Lists and when tendering for work.

Why seek certification to ISO 9001?

​Many organisations seek certification by a UKAS Accredited Certification Body in order to qualify for a tender or to achieve Approved Supplier Status thus attracting new customers. Larger customers rely on you to provide assurance that you can demonstrate compliance with proven international business practices and appropriate standards. Many businesses choose to trade with company’s who comply with recognised standards ahead of those who don’t so why is this?

• ​Shows commitment and the right attitude to providing a high level of customer satisfaction and a willingness to improve efficiency.
• Demonstrates the existence of an effective Quality Management System that satisfies the rigors of an independent, external audit.
• Boosts your company’s brand reputation and can be a powerful marketing tool especially when going up against competitors who are not certified.
  

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BS EN ISO-14001 Environmental

​Implementing a management system based on the requirements of BS EN ISO 14001 will help your organisation demonstrate your commitment to the Environment. The standard is a recognised specification for implementation of an effective Environmental Management System to enable organisations to manage risk and help aid compliance with all applicable legislation, as well as helping you to maintain a safe and healthy working environment for your employees and visitors alike.

 It sets out the requirements for an environmental management system, enabling organisations to put into place an environmental policy and objectives that consider relevant legal and other requirements. The standard encompasses the environmental issues that the organisation can control or influence.

• ​Cost savings through improving efficiency and productivity and reducing waste. The standard can assist with legislative compliance, thereby reducing risks, which can bring down insurance costs.
• Control reputational risk by demonstrating to employees, customers, shareholders and the general public, that you are committed to protecting the environment and have the appropriate control measures in place.

Why seek certification to ISO 14001?

​Certification to ISO 14001 demonstrates that your company is committed to environmental issues and is proactively working to minimise its impact on the environment. (i.e. by producing less waste and energy and its use of natural resources). It will also bring you commercial advantages by enhancing the company’s image. Many public and private sectors are now making ISO 9001 and 14001 a requirement for those that it works with. Certification to the standard will sharpen a company’s competitive edge when tendering for work in these sectors or for applying for inclusion on Approved Suppliers Lists.

Continual Improvement is built into all management system standards therefore ISO 14001 drives environmental improvements on an on-going basis, leading to further cost savings and operational efficiency.

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BS EN ISO-18001/45001 Health & Safety Management System

Implementing a Management System based on the requirements of BS EN ISO 45001 will help your organisation demonstrate your commitment to Occupational Health & safety. The standard is a recognised specification for implementation of an effective H&S system to enable your organisation to manage risk and help aid compliance with all applicable legislation, as well as helping you to maintain a safe and healthy working environment for your employees and visitors alike.

Why seek Certification to ISO 18001/45001?

• Cost Savings – Through reducing or eliminating costs associated with work-related injuries or illness
• Improved Corporate Image​ – By demonstrating the organisations commitment to addressing H&S issues to employees, customers and other interested parties
• Enables Measurement of H&S Performance​ – By establishing a framework for controlling and measuring H&S Performance data
• Legal Obligations​ – Helps you to identify and meet legislation obligations
• Other Award Schemes​ – Beneficial when seeking registration to CHAS and Safe Contractor by means of lees paperwork to submit and smaller fees.

Certification to BS EN ISO 45001 demonstrates, internally & externally, a commitment to maintain or improve the way in which you manage H&S within your organisation. Setting targets through an organisational policy statement, together with on-going measurement against it, supports a process of continual improvement, enabled by the standards ‘Plan-Do-Check-Act’ framework.

In addition, lost time due to incidents and ill health can be reduced along with reputational damage resulting from a poor H&S track record. Holding certification also provides new opportunities to win business where certification is a condition of supply.

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Workplace risk assessments – Fire – Health & Safety – Environmental

Why produce workplace risk assessments?

Did you know that you must complete risk assessments, by law? The management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 states that employers must identify any hazards and levels of risk to the health and safety of their employees while they are at work.

 If you didn’t know that don’t worry. You are in the right place.

The law states that a risk assessment must be ‘suitable and sufficient’, i.e. it should show that:

• a proper check was made
• you asked who might be affected
• you dealt with all the obvious significant risks, taking into account the number of people who could be involved
• the precautions are reasonable, and the remaining risk is low
• you involved your workers or their representatives in the process

A risk assessment is the process of identifying hazards, evaluating risks and controlling or eliminating those hazards during daily tasks and activities.

This also involves applying control measures to make sure your people and any visitors to your site are safe. Ultimately, you must decide what might cause harm to people and take reasonable steps to prevent that harm.

If you employ over five people, you must keep a written record of all your assessments. If you don’t? You could face a fine or even prosecution.

The level of detail in a risk assessment should be proportionate to the risk and appropriate to the nature of the work. Insignificant risks can usually be ignored, as can risks arising from routine activities associated with life in general, unless the work activity compounds or significantly alters those risks.

Your risk assessment should only include what you could reasonably be expected to know – you are not expected to anticipate unforeseeable risks.

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HEA portfolio development and maintenance (including evidence gathering)

A Highways Electrical Registration Scheme (HERS) card is the “must have” qualification for all workers involved in highways electrical work. In order to obtain the card, and to maintain it, the worker must have a folder of evidence to prove experience, knowledge, understanding, and competence in their line of work. The development and maintenance of these folders, which are assessed by the Highways Electrical Association, is very time consuming and often complicated to effectively produce, prepare, and submit for assessment.

ASD have the required experience and qualifications needed to develop and maintain these portfolios on your behalf. We can even help to gather the necessary evidence and remove most of the work from you. If you have ever been involved in the development of these portfolios, you will already understand just how much time this will free up for you.