ISO consultancy from WQS

ISO consultancy Westcountry Quality Systems (WQS) Ltd was formed to meet the demands of growing businesses who wanted a more personalised business support service while achieving restructuring or obtaining ISO accreditation or CE certification approvals. WQS offers a complete package from step one to final ISO accreditation, holding the client’s hand throughout the whole process. This is then followed up with ongoing monitoring & support to ensure the systems grow with their company.

Quality Management

Benefits:

  • Better products or service provision
  • Reduced waste and lower costs
  • Better planning and delivery
  • Enables traceability of products
  • Continual business improvement

Enviromental Management

Benefits:

  • Reduce waste and costs of disposal
  • Reduced operating costs
  • Compliance to Legal/Regulatory req.
  • Demonstrate care for environment
  • Prevent pollution wherever possible

Occupational Health & Safety

Benefits:

  • Commitment to protect employees
  • Control of risk management
  • Minimise accidents and RSI issues
  • Decrease disruption from accidents
  • Improved corporate images

Information Security Management System

Benefits:

  • Protect sensitive data
  • Boost clients confidence
  • Reduce risk of un-authorised access
  • Meet req. of Data Protection act
  • Control access to systems

Timber sustainability and Chain of Custody

Benefits:

  • Reduce waste and costs of disposal
  • Reduced operating costs
  • Compliance to Legal/Regulatory req.
  • Demonstrate care for environment
  • Prevent pollution wherever possible

Product Certification
CE & AC Marking

Benefits:

  • Enables free sale in EU countries
  • Inspires confidence in the product
  • To meet any legal requirements
  • Demonstrates it has been inspected
  • Indicates it should be safe to use

Landscaping, Grass cutting, and Arboreal work

Benefits:

  • Identify & Protection of rare species
  • Provenance of plants and shrubs
  • Demonstrates care for the ecology
  • Safe working on & around trees
  • Safe use of pesticides

Road Marking

Benefits:

  • To identify marking requirements
  • Control of application processes
  • To become an approved contractor
  • Leading to more contracts
  • Can complement your NHSS 12 TM

Traffic Management

Benefits:

  • Highways approval to deploy TM
  • Increased work opportunities
  • Safer working practices
  • Reduce risk of fatalities on highways
  • Ongoing service contracts

What we do for you:

  • first meeting and advice, (after-all it cost nothing to talk)
  • Quote and project planner.

Installation of new systems:

  • First we establish which system would be most suitable to your business
  • Agree the interest free payment schedule and time table to achieve your registration
  • Assess what documents and processes you already have in place
  • Identify what documentation is needed to bring your existing system up to requirements
  • We provide all the documents, templates and procedures you require to achieve your project
  • provision of 24/7 advice and support for your new system
  • We provide the Management Review agenda and carryout the internal audit and provide management reports
  • We identify opportunities for business improvements
  • Liaison with 3rd party certification bodies to arrange certification audits
  • Attend and provide support on the days of the external audits to ensure registration goes smoothly
  • Deal with any issues or opportunities raised during your audits and bring project to a satisfactory end
  • Agree any future audit or system support

Maintaining your system:

  • back-up and retention of your system control documents
  • Planning of your internal audits and liaising with your external auditors
  • Ensure all relevant information will be available in time for the audits
  • Review and updating relevant documents to ensure system requirements are met
  • Carryout your internal audit and generation of your audit report
  • Identifying any areas of system and/or business improvements
  • We provide website facility to allow easy document exchange document access
  • Providing attendance support during your external audit
  • Updating the NCR and opportunities register with the latest findings
  • Ensure all the loose ends have been tied up and document records put to bed
  • Plan for the next audit