Why are we trying to do with an Integrated QEH & S Management System?

Managers of most mature companies understand the need for a quality management process. Industrial managers and developers by now know the risk associated with mismanagement of hazardous materials and waste. The difficulty has been how you do it, which process TQM, Deming, Juran, or Crosby. Etc.

In many ways environmental issues appear to be the most difficult because of the technical complexity associated with re-mediation projects or the design of new chemical processes. Then there is occupational health and safety that many managers think is out of their control. They believe many injury claims are fraudulent but difficult to prove, or that the employee was careless. If they only had more conscientious employees the safety problem would go away! In reality 80–85% of the process failures, including injuries, are caused by process common and multiple root cause, variations built into the process by the existing management system.

Integrated Process Quality and EH&S (QEH&S) Program Benefits

  » Reduced costs increase profit margins
  » Increased competitiveness
  » Facilitates injured employees to return to work
  » Reduces incident frequency and severity rates or lost time
  » Reduces damage to equipment, inventory or product loss, and generation of hazardous
     waste
  » Increases companies’ regulatory compliance
  » Integrates process quality and safety
  » Improves employee and public relations

Integrated Management systems Registration is for organizations that have a single management system that incorporates two or more management systems standards (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001).

The Integrated Management assessment and certification process is not just about auditing more than one management system at the same time (this is a combined audit service), neither is it demonstrating that an organization's has wrapped up several procedures into one manual. Instead, organizations successfully achieving certification will need to demonstrate that they have ONE management system that encompasses all existing management systems standards into one structure.

Which Management System Standards can be integrated?

Benefits of IMS

  » Avoid overlapping documentation
  » Avoid duplication of internal resources
  » Simpler to use single system
  » Cost effective to maintain
  » Reduce auditing / administration
  » Reduce need for learning different systems
  » Enhance corporate image
  » Avoid side tracking of single management system
  » Reduction in certification of cost
  » Certifying only one system in an implemented IMS

Need more information?

Call Mr. Bhavesh Bhavsar on +919824340207 or mail your queries on info@qmc.co.in