How ISO Standards Can Guide Your Sustainability Journey
There is no single activity that can help your organization reach its sustainability goals over night, however key ISO certifications can help guide you to success.Read More
International Standards for Sustainability
Leverage Compliance to Improve Sustainability
Achieving enduring sustainability depends upon having systems in place that help you meet your environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and at the same time provide the structure you need for profitability and success today without jeopardizing your viability tomorrow.
When you partner with ABS QE, you gain access to unparalleled knowledge, skills and experience that help you better understand your company so you can identify risks and put programs and practices in place to drive efficiencies and ensure environmental stewardship.
Sustainability not only helps you shape a better world; it helps you position your company for continued and successful commercial services.
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Sustainability Benefits
Cost Savings
Sustainable practices can lead to significant cost savings. From lowering operating costs to protecting the supply chain, companies can better plan for long-term success.
Brand Reputation
Sustainability efforts now guide decision-making for stakeholders. Companies that prioritize these efforts can readily differentiate themselves from competitors.
Regulatory Compliance
Governments worldwide are implementing regulations aimed at reducing emissions. Adopting sustainable practices can ensure compliance and avoid costly penalties.
ISO 9001 - Quality Management System
ISO 9001 provides criteria for setting up a quality management system that helps ensure consistent, good-quality products and services. The process approach outlined in this standard has a strong customer focus and emphasizes continual improvement.
Benefits of ISO 9001 Certification
- Helps to reduce internal costs by increasing productivity and efficiency
- Can simplify the process of assessing and addressing organizational risks
- Helps to identify new opportunities
- Prioritizes putting customers first, helping to improve customer satisfaction and making it easier to attract new customers
Benefits of ISO 9001 Certification
ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System
ISO 14001 sets out criteria and maps out a framework for setting up an effective environmental management system that helps you to reduce consumption and cut costs while increasing environmental stewardship.ABS QE certification to ISO 14001 can help your company be better prepared with a system in place to help you properly address an unplanned event and mitigate its consequences.
Benefits of ISO 14001 Certification
- Can save money through efficient resource use and waste reduction
- Helps to achieve strategic business aims by incorporating environmental issues in business management
- Assists in reinforcing and maintaining company reputation
- Can help to improve stakeholder confidence
Benefits of ISO 14001 Certification
ISO 45001 - Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) Management System
ISO 45001 provides a framework that helps reduce risk, prevent worker accidents, injuries and fatalities, enhances physical and mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and enables proactive OH&S performance improvement.
Benefits of ISO 45001 Certification
- Helps to create a Health & Safety culture that can reduce the number of workplace incidents
- Helps to cut down on absenteeism and staff turnover
- Can improve morale and increase productivity
- Helps to lower insurance premiums
- Helps meet legal and regulatory requirements
- Helps to enhance company reputation
Benefits of ISO 45001 Certification
ISO 50001 - Energy Management System
ISO 50001 specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an energy management system that allows you to follow a systematic approach to achieve continual energy performance improvement.
Benefits of ISO 50001 Certification
- Can capture efficiencies from energy-intensive assets
- Helps to maximize energy resource page
- Assist in reducing energy consumption and cost
- Helps to decrease emissions
Benefits of ISO 50001 Certification
ISO 55001 - Asset Management System
ISO 55001 specifies requirements for an asset management system that includes both physical assets and intangible assets. This standard helps you manage the lifecycle of assets more effectively for better control over daily activities to derive a higher return on investment (ROI).As the first certification body to receive ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accreditation to certify organizations to ISO 55001, ABS QE has unparalleled experience with asset management certificcation.
Benefits of ISO 55001 Certification
- Helps balance cost, risk, opportunity and business performance
- Can enhance organizational effectiveness with more efficient and time-saving processes
- Helps in reducing risk and cost associated with asset ownership
- Can help to improve cost reduction and return on investment
- Helps to increase the quality of products and services
Benefits of ISO 55001 Certification
Center for Offshore Safety - Safety and Environmental Management System
The Center for Offshore Safety (COS) supports companies active in offshore oil and gas industry operations on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) as they develop, implement, and improve their Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS). ABS QE has been part of COS from the beginning. We were one of the pioneers and today are 1 of the 5 organizations accredited by COS as an Audit Service Provider (ASP).
Benefits of ISO COS SEMS Certification
- Qualifies your company to work in the Gulf of Mexico
- Helps to ensure comprehensive incident mitigation for potential operational risks
- Helps provide processes and protocols for mitigating environmetal change
- Helps to safeguard workers and assets
Benefits of COS SEMS Certification
U.S. Green-Building Council LEED Certification
The mission of the U.S. Green Building Council is to transform how buildings are designed, built and operated to enable environmentally, socially responsible structures in a healthy and prosperous environment. The organization’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program provides a framework to help maintain healthier, more efficient, carbon and cost-saving green buildings and is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement. The ABS QE team was one of the first approved for certification and has been the frontrunner in providing LEED reviews for 15 years.
Benefits of LEED Certification
- Helps to capture efficiencies from energy-intensive assets
- Assists in maximizing energy resource page
- Helps reduce energy consumption and cost
- Helps to decrease emissions
Benefits of LEED Certification
Integrated Management Systems
Many companies pursue multiple certifications to achieve their sustainability goals. With so many ways to focus on specific sustainability challenges, it seems like a good plan to tackle issues one at a time. The problem is that when management systems are not integrated, even though the intent of the certifications is on target, results can fall short of the mark.
Benefits of Integrated Management Systems
- Can increase the value of individual certifications
- Assist in capturing efficiences
- Helps improve sustainability
- Can reduce the cost of certification
Benefits of Integrated Management Systems
Training
For decades, ABS QE experts have delivered customized public and onsite training courses, helping thousands of professionals around the world implement programs to improve safety, security, risk, reliability, quality and environmental performance.
Benefits of Expert Training
- Helps to ensure you are knowledgeable about current certification requirements
- Can expand your understanding of your company's management programs
- Helps to improve your insight into operational efficiencies
- Allows you to gain knowledge for improving the safety, security, risk, reliability and quality of your operations
- Helps the understanding of how you can use your management programs to reduce the impact of your operations on the environment
Benefits of Expert Training
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