Quality, Health & Safety and Environment

Howden BC Compressors has an integrated management system and is certified to ISO 9001:2000 for quality management, ISO 14001:2004 for environmental management, and OHSAS 18001:1999 for health & safety.  

Quality
Our ISO 9001 certification covers the design, manufacturing, commissioning of gas compressors and also expertise, spare parts supplies and on site activities. 
We are dedicated to maintaining a quality management system that ensures customer satisfaction, delivered safely and on time. The quality management system is open to review by all company personnel and authorized third parties, enabling observations to be made for incorporating into the system, which provides for continuous improvement.
 

Health, Safety & Welfare
We have a full time safety department to ensure compliance with the company safety policy, produce safety plans and safe systems of work, carry out risk assessments and draw up method statements for all work undertaken.
We operate a health and safety management system in compliance with and accredited to OHSAS 18001.  We are continually raising the awareness of all employees through training and setting of management objectives. We seek continual improvement in health & safety and there is an ongoing challenge for all our managers to achieve this improvement.

Environmental
We are accredited to ISO  14001. The management system manual describes the core elements of the system and it is the duty of every employee to carry out their respective tasks in accordance with the procedures.

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