Hydroscand UK is Proud to Announce ISO 14001 & 45001 Certification
07 Feb 2023
Hydroscand UK is Proud to Announce ISO 14001 & 45001 Certification
Certification marks the culmination of many months of preparation and hard work and demonstrates our commitment to Environmental and Health & Safety management to our team and our customers.
For several years, Hydroscand UK has held ISO 9001:2015 certification and the management team recognised the importance of working towards the standards ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018. These internationally agreed standards set out the requirements for an environmental and health & safety management system respectively.
There are several reasons why achieving these standards is important. Firstly, there is increasing demand from our customers. Secondly, we want to demonstrate to our teams that we take their health & safety seriously and that we are committed to conducting our business in a responsible and sustainable way. Furthermore, we believe it’s the right thing to do! Having these management systems in place will benefit us and our customers for years to come.
A lot of hard work has been done to get us ready for our certification audits by our teams internally and by our expert partners at JBES Engineering Services and JAMES Learning & Development. A lot of what needed to be done was already in place. So we formalised existing processes and where necessary developed and implemented new ways of working to meet the standards.
The whole company is now involved in making changes that benefit everyone. For example, Oliver Roberts, Senior Hose Technician said: “The van has been rearranged because when you cut a hose, you get the fumes of the rubber cutting and the metal. But obviously now, the van has been placed in a specific place where the extraction for it will go straight out the door instead of up into the van.”
Assistant Manager, Deb Wardle said: “There’s a lot more awareness amongst the team now. Everybody seems to be more aware and is actually reporting things back to us now. There’s an awareness of things that potentially could be an issue or perhaps we could do this in a different way.
We believe that achieving this certification will reinforce our core business value to be trustworthy and create a safe working environment and secure and sustainable future for the society, our customers, and our employees. It will also give our teams and our customers confidence in us.