PCSG has further strengthened its sustainability credentials and environmental performance with a successful transition to the new ISO 14001:2015 standard.
Confirmation that PCSG has now successfully transitioned to ISO 14001:2015 was delivered this week. The firm’s quality management system (QMS) and environmental management system (EMS) are now both certified in line with the latest standards.
The BSI transition audit examined the degree of integration of the EMS into PCSG’s leadership and business strategy. It enabled the team to showcase how environmental enhancements and continuous improvement is brought into the heart of the business. This includes consistently promoting sustainability within bids, improving information management so as to reduce all types of waste – resources, time and money – proactively reducing the impact of internal operations, measuring and offsetting PCSG’s own carbon footprint and supporting clients with their own environmental management systems.
Across the PCSG business, office recycling and policies around travel are actively promoted – encouraging the use of public transport for example and recording journey details, for calculation of the business’ carbon footprint.
Following this latest success, PCSG’s environmental consultants are now preparing for a new year rush to help the many UK businesses also transitioning to the new 2015 standards, which come into force in 2018.
To date the business has already supported companies in the manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications and further education sectors to make the necessary changes and to prepare for surveillance audits with external assessment companies such as BSI, SGS, LRQA, Bureau Veritas, Force and AJA Registrars.
William Yonge, who leads PCSG’s transition team, said: “The new requirements represent the most significant changes in ISO14001 since 2004 and in ISO 9001 since 2000.”
He added: “We have now been involved in the successful transition of 12 ISO certificates to the 2015 standards for clients, as well as our own QMS and EMS, and consider the new standards to be a very useful tool for improving and integrating environmental and quality performance throughout the organisation.”
The new standards were published in September 2015, with a three-year transition period. This means that after September 2018, previous versions of quality and environmental management systems will no longer be valid.
“We recommend that all organisations plan to make the transition this year, to be completed in good time,” said Yonge.
For more information about how PCSG can help your business transition to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 contact william.yonge@pcsg.co.uk