Bowens Safety Accreditation Services: Your Certified Safety Partner
Standards and accreditation play an important role within UK businesses, they help to ensure businesses and consumers can have confidence that products and services they purchase meet regulatory requirements.
Standardisation
Creates the national and international standards that describe good practice in how things are made and done.
Accreditation
Ensures that those who carry out conformity assessment, testing, certification, and inspection are competent to do so.
Both standards and accreditation are primarily voluntary systems, but some aspects of accreditation are mandatory, especially regarding conformity assessment.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the UK’s National Standards Body (NSB). It is responsible for producing national and international standards under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
BSI maintains the infrastructure for standards development in the UK, managing 1,200 technical committees. It represents the UK interest in the international standardisation organisations ISO and IEC and the European standardisation organisations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI.
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is the UK’s National Accreditation Body. UKAS accreditation assures the competence, impartiality and integrity of testing, calibration, inspection, and certification bodies. UKAS operates within the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding with BEIS.
Achieve accreditation or obtaining a standard can be a lengthy process especially if the organisation implementing it has not completed this journey before. Bowen Safety Ltd are experienced in guiding and implementing different management systems for our clients with a no hassle approach. We can lead the way or stand in the background and support your business in obtaining your required accreditations. Our consultants are experienced auditors who can complete a GAP analysis of your business, then recommend the right standards or accreditation which will best support your business model and customers. We are here to help you implement a standalone system or integrated management systems depending on the types of standard or standards your business wishes to achieve.
Alcumus a UKAS accredited
Bowen Safety Ltd work in partnership with Alcumus a UKAS accredited organisation to achieve your standards, we will be able to highlight areas of improvement or gaps in your current management systems to achieve these accreditations. We can assist our clients with achieving some of the most recognised standards on the market some of which are listed below:
We are here to help guide your business through the planning, implementation, and certification of your chosen set of standards.
Bowen Safety Ltd are also able to guide your business through different types of accreditation such as:
Safe Contractor Scheme – This accreditation scheme checks that you meet the necessary requirements around health and safety, equal opportunities, diversity, and environmental management practices, so your client knows about you and reduces the risk within their supply chain.
CHAS – which is the UK’s leading provider of compliance and risk management solutions. This accreditation solution will help contractors (suppliers) and clients (buyers) ensure supply chain compliance, mitigate risks, and support efficient supply chain management.
For further help and guidance please contact our team at Bowen Safety LTD.