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Meet Our Partner - HSEQ-360

06 November 2020
This month's Meet Our Partner is Steve Cook and Chad Brown from HSEQ-360, a consultancy formed to provide customers with solutions across Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality and Operational solutions.

What standards can you help NQA clients with?

  • ISO 9001

  • ISO 14001

  • ISO 45001

  • Pressure Equipment Directive

  • EN 1090

About your company

HSEQ-360 was formed to provide customers with solutions across Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality and Operational solutions, across four service lines:

  • Compliance

  • Specialist Services

  • Health and Safety

  • Business Support

From our offices in Great Yarmouth and Kent, a UK-wide client base is served.

Why do you like working with NQA?

NQA is an established and credible certification body, with a reach across the UK and a reputation for delivering excellent standards of customer service.
 
HSEQ-360 are pleased to have developed management systems for our clients, that have been audited by NQA as conforming with several international standards. Proposals are clear, straightforward and reasonable.

Top tip for people looking at certification?

Keep systems simple, but not simplistic. If you can’t explain it easily, its likely over complicated. Be clear in the value that certification will add, and what you are looking to achieve. Make sure the standard works for you, and that you don’t work for the standard.

What do you find is the most common point of misunderstanding regarding certification or specific standards when visiting clients?

Not everything needs to be documented. Systems can become unwieldy and excessive. Keeping them proportionate and the application of risk-based thinking can often determine what should be written down. For us, we clarify risk-based thinking regularly, by asking:

  1. Could a failure be catastrophic?
  2. Is it done by lots of people?
  3. Is it seldom done?
  4. Is it a legal or other (e.g. customer, contractual) requirement?

If not, consider if documented information adds value.

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For more information please visit us at: www.hseq-360.co.uk 

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NQA does not provide consultancy in order to remain impartial from management systems implementation.

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NQA remains impartial from our partners on our Associate Consultant Register and does not endorse one partner over another.

‘Our consultants’ do not work for NQA, they work as independent bodies in partnership with us through our Associate Partner Programme. In accordance with the accreditation standard ISO 17021-1:2015 NQA does not provide consultancy in order to remain impartial from management systems implementation.