Providing services to a wide range of organisations
NQA provides services to a wide range of organisations, including commercial businesses, charities, NGO's and government departments. This page helps you to find the most appropriate services for you based on the sector in which you operate. For full details, please click on the links below.
Aerospace
The aerospace industry, more than any other, is acutely aware that a single mishap attributed to poor or uncontrolled quality can result in danger to lives in addition to significant financial loss.
Automotive
The automotive industry is dominated by a few principal manufacturing corporations. These organisations work collectively and individually to achieve process and supply chain efficiency and to ensure compliance with legislation.
Communications
The consistent demand placed on manufacturers to supply product in the ICT & Telecoms sectors, which are at the cutting edge of new technology, also places requirements for ever improving reliability and service delivery.
Construction
The broad range of trades and vocations within the construction sector brings many challenges including rapid change, increasing competition and legislative compliance.
Engineering
The electronic and engineering sectors have experienced many changes over the past 20-30 years. This rate of change continues with innovative processes and materials developing side by side with proven older technology.
Food Sector
A robust and well managed food chain is essential to the health and well-being of all consumers and is fundamental to social and economic stability. This makes food safety a critical issue that must be managed effectively throughout the food chain from farm to fork.
Highways Management
The Highways Agency and local authorities, as the organisations with statutory duty to maintain the road systems in the UK, have developed schemes to ensure that only competent organisations carry out work on their behalf.
Manufacturing and Process
Technical innovation has revolutionised the wide sector of manufacturing and processing over the past 20-30 years. This is exemplified by the printing industry which has embraced significant change and competition.
Medical Devices
There is probably no other industry where the importance of product conformity is as crucial as that in the design and manufacture of medical devices. Standards in any industry are an important way both to safeguard product conformity while simultaneously harmonizing requirements, not only nationally, but internationally as well.
Public Sector
The broad range of activities and the huge sums of money spent make the public service sector both unique and subject to ever closer control. The requirement for delivering customer value at reasonable cost is of critical importance.
What are Security Industry Codes of Practice
The Codes of Practice provide a framework for best practice to raise performance standards and to assist the private security industry in developing new opportunities.
Transport Distribution
The continuing expansion of the transport industry in rail, road, sea and air and increased competitiveness across the sector, means reliability of service is fundamental to success.
Utilities
Scale and complexity combined with legislative and technical regulation create a unique industry sector. Water, gas and electricity are fundamental to society and rigorous control of processes and delivery to ensure continuity and quality of supply is critical.
Other Sectors
In an increasingly competitive global economy it is essential for any business to gain an edge if it is to remain successful. In addition to competition, there are increasing legislative requirements, covering health and safety and environmental issues, which must be taken into account.