ISO 9001 Quality Management System
When you are selling or tendering to new customers, ISO 9001 certification confirms to them that you are a business that takes quality seriously. There are a number of messages that being an ISO 9001 business sends, for example that you are:
- Customer focused
- Continuously improving
- Have strong management processes
- Provide good leadership
- Have evidence based decision making systems
- Care about professional relationships.
ISO 9001 gives potential and existing customers confidence that they are working with a company that they can trust to deliver professionally.
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
We all have to take the environment seriously. Climate change, caused by human activity, is proven to be responsible for global warming. More and more companies want their suppliers to have ISO 14001 certification, as they want their own business to be able to demonstrate environmental responsibility. ISO 14001 requires :
- Effective environmental management
- Environmental measurement
- Employee education
- Compliance with environmental regulations
- Continual improvement of environmental performance
ISO 14001 will allow your clients and potential customers to feel comfortable that working with you will meet their environmental standards.
ISO 27001 Information Security Management System
ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System
ISO 27001 is fast becoming an essential for businesses that want to work in the public sector and with larger clients. It will soon be filtering into everyday life as more companies introduce working from home as part of their management.
Information management and protection is central to modern business. ISO 27001 has been developed so that companies can ensure that their data and other information is maintained securely both on and off the premises.
These include:
- Operational and financial information
- Intellectual property
- Research and development
- Employee details
- Third party information
To work in the NHS and other public sector organisations now invariably requires ISO 27001 certification since you may have to access to their internal systems and to information such as service user records which need to be protected a the highest level.
Occupational health and safety is more than a tick box exercise; it saves lives and ensures that you are healthy, physically and mentally. ISO 45001 is a standard that that requires processes to be put in place to ensure that your premises and work activities are safe and healthy for you, your employees, your supply chain and anyone visiting your premises. It also has implications for your supply chain, transport of goods and people.