QUALITY · ENVIRONMENT · OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

A management system that supports the business

Requirements should become part of the business – not force the business into a binder.

A good management system creates structure, clarifies responsibilities and helps the organisation manage risks, meet requirements and improve the business.

CLS helps companies to implement, develop and simplify management systems for quality, environment and occupational health & safety.

ISO 9001IATF 16949ISO 14001ISO 45001

What do you need to get under control?

You may be preparing for your first certification. Perhaps you already have a certified system that has become unnecessarily complicated. Or customers, regulators and the business itself may be placing higher demands on you.

Implementing a management system – start with the business, not the documents

Implementing a management system is less about creating more documents and more about making requirements, responsibilities and ways of working function within the processes you already have. CLS helps analyse the current situation, build a practical structure and prepare the organisation for certification without unnecessary administration.

Build a new management systemSimplify an existing systemIntegrate quality, environment and occupational health & safetyGap analysis before certificationInternal auditsNonconformities and improvement actionsCustomer-specific requirementsLegal and regulatory requirements

The starting point is always how your business actually works.

Does this sound familiar?We can start by looking at where you are today and what actually needs to change.

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QUALITY MANAGEMENT

ISO 9001 – structure without unnecessary administration

ISO 9001 provides a solid basis for managing and developing business processes. Above all, the standard describes what the organisation needs to ensure – not that you must create complicated procedures to do it.

ProcessesResponsibilitiesRisksCustomer requirementsNonconformitiesAuditsObjectivesImprovements

The management system should support the business during the 364 days of the year when the certification auditor is not there.

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

IATF 16949 – management systems for tougher customer requirements

For automotive suppliers, simply meeting ISO 9001 is rarely enough. IATF 16949 requires customer-specific requirements, process control, risk management, suppliers, and product and process development to work as an integrated part of the management system.

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Automotive Core Tools need to be used where they create control and sound decision support – not merely exist as templates. CLS helps companies develop both the management system and the organisation's practical ability to work with the requirements and methods.

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

ISO 14001 – environmental management as part of the business

Environmental issues should not live in a separate system alongside the rest of the business. A functioning environmental management system helps the organisation understand which activities have significant environmental impacts, which requirements apply and where improvements will have the greatest effect.

Environmental aspectsApplicable environmental requirementsRisks and opportunitiesObjectives and action plansOperational controlFollow-up and improvement

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

ISO 45001 – the same business, with people at the centre

Quality, environment and occupational health & safety are often managed by the same organisation and concern the same processes. ISO 45001 provides structure for systematic work with OH&S risks, requirements, objectives, responsibilities and improvements.

Rather than creating yet another parallel system, occupational health & safety can often be integrated with the company's other management systems.

INTEGRATE WHERE IT SIMPLIFIES

Why have three systems when one can be enough?

ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 are structured so that much of the management framework can be handled jointly.

Document controlOne shared structure.

Internal auditsOne coordinated audit process.

NonconformitiesThe same basic way of working.

CompetenceOne shared process.

Objectives & follow-upOne coherent picture.

Management reviewOne management team. One business. One review.

One company. One way of working. One management system.

LEGAL & OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Certification is only one part of the requirements

Particularly in environmental management and occupational health & safety, the organisation needs to identify relevant legislation and other binding obligations and control how they are met. Statutory, regulatory and customer-specific requirements can also be critical in quality management.

Identify→Understand→Assign responsibility→Act→Follow up

Legal compliance should be built into the normal way of working.

NEXT STEP

Are you preparing for certification?
Or should your current system work better?

We can start by looking at where you are today, which requirements you need to meet and what actually needs to change. The assignment can range from a few days of analysis and advice to a complete implementation project.