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.
NQA is able to assist companies working in the sector to comply with these schemes and also to address environmental and safety issues through certification to international standards.
NQA has a sound basis of expertise in the sector and provides a range of services to assist manufacturers to improve their performance. These include:
For further information please download the file below.
Useful file
- Highways Agency Sector Schemes
National Highways Sector Schemes (NHSS) are bespoke integrated management schemes which supplement the ISO 9001:2008 the international quality management systems standard. - Bespoke Solutions
NQA provides specialist expertise to help organisations improve performance and manage competitiveness by tailoring its assessment, certification and reporting services. - BS / ISO / IEC 27001:2005
ISO 27001 is the international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) based largely upon the previously adopted BS 7799 used commonly since 1995 for managing information security. - ISO 14001:2004
ISO 14001 is the international standard for environmental management systems now the most widely used EMS in the world, with over 6,000 organisations certified in the UK and an estimated 111,000 organisations certified in 138 countries world-wide. - ISO 9001:2008
ISO 9001 is the internationally recognised standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS). - OHSAS 18001
OHSAS 18001:2007 is an internationally recognised occupational health and safety management system standard. - PAS 43:2006
PAS 43 is the publicly available management system specification for the safe working of vehicle breakdown and recovery operations.
