Engineering firms face a set of highly specific challenges, including a complex regulatory landscape and increasing competition in a global marketplace.

It is crucial for engineering organizations to ensure they are complying with health and safety requirements, product specification and design requirements, machine and material requirements, as well as the multiple other UK engineering regulations that cover all aspects of the industry.

No matter the size of your organization, or the specific industries you serve, you can benefit from implementing one or several standards.

What are the business benefits of implementing standards?

Implementing management system standards gives your engineering business a competitive edge when entering new markets, as it represents a known and trusted standard of quality.

Implementing a management system can also help you to:

• Shorten cycle times and improve accountability.

• Achieve compliance with new regulations faster.

• Become recognized in your field as an environmental leader.

• Streamline your supply chain and reduce your reliance on fossil fuels.

• Enhance awareness and improve your overall security and safety posture.

• Engage staff at all levels and secure executive-level participation in quality management goals.

Together, these advantages make for stronger organizations that can effectively use sophisticated management tools to grow and succeed, even in an uncertain economy.

The key standards for your engineering organization

Adopting methods of best practice is critically important to ensure change is managed and risk minimized. This is vital for a variety of reasons, including the need to be conscious of the effects of these changes on the environment and health and safety.

Management systems standards ensure a consistency of approach that drives efficiency forward.

BS EN ISO 9001: Quality management system

BS EN ISO 9001 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) standard that can benefit any size organization. Designed to be a powerful business improvement tool, BS EN ISO 9001 Quality management systems can help you to:

• Continually improve, streamline operations and reduce costs

• Win more business and compete in tenders

• Satisfy more customers

• Be more resilient and build a sustainable business

• Show you have strong corporate governance

• Work effectively with stakeholders and your supply chain

To read more about how to implement a quality management system into your business practices, click here.

BS EN ISO 14001: Environmental management system

BS EN ISO 14001 provides guidance on how to consider multiple aspects of your business procurement, storage, distribution, product development, manufacturing, etc.- so that it reduces its impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage emergency response, customer expectations, stakeholders, and your relationships with your local community.

Depending on how your organization operates today, this may not require a lot of change beyond documenting what and how you do or it may mean a number of changes that can result in a more efficient business, cost, or waste reductions and give stakeholders peace of mind.

BS EN ISO 50001: Energy management system

Used by large and small organizations across the world to manage and reduce energy use and costs, BS EN ISO 50001 is an excellent framework to help implement an energy management system (EnMS). From large retailers to smaller manufacturers and small businesses, the standard offers organizations the opportunity to become more resilient against energy costs and availability.

Whether you’re interested in implementing BS EN ISO 50001 to reduce costs, comply with legislation or increase your sustainability, implementing the standard provides a systematic approach to achieving all three.

BS EN ISO 45001: Occupational health and safety management system

BS EN ISO 45001 is designed to prevent work-related injury and ill-health and to provide safe and healthy workplaces.

As an international standard, BS EN ISO 45001 crosses geographic, political, economic, commercial, and social boundaries. This sets a single benchmark for the management of occupational health and safety. So, if your organization operates or trades internationally, you can work to a single standard which can simplify your business.

BS EN ISO/IEC 27001: Information security management system

Internationally recognized BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 is an excellent framework that helps organizations manage and protect their information assets so that they remain safe and secure. It helps you to continually review and refine the way you do this, not only for today but also for the future.

Add these key standards to your collection today.

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