Metalplus recently succeeded in meeting the stringent standards of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) with respect to the environmental and health & safety requirements applicable in factories and workshops.
In February this year the division won ISO accreditation in both fields – ISO 14001:2015 for environmental and ISO 45001:2018 for health & safety – to add to the ISO 9001:2015 quality accreditation it has had since November 2018.
“These three ISO accreditations together add up to an awesome array of credentials that put us in the strongest possible position in our field to meet the stipulated ground rules applicable to most large projects nowadays,” said Roman Mornau, Metalplus’ Divisional CEO.
“What this means in essence is that having these accreditations in our back pockets every time we tender for a project automatically puts us at an advantage over any competitors who don’t possess them, because the accreditations answer all the key questions that the project owners want answers to as a matter of course without any further questions having to be asked relating to the supplier’s basic quality of workmanship, the environmental procedures he consistently observes and the health and safety measures he applies every day with respect to his employees.”
Late last year Metalplus adopted a web-based safety, health, environmental & quality management (SHEQ) app to replace traditional methods of recording, monitoring and updating the documentation and prescribed procedures applicable to each in accordance with ISO requirements.
“The SHEQ App handles this work very efficiently as it is a highly structured system that makes retrieval of documents almost immediate and provides a platform where all SHEQ documents are up to date for all business processes as well as all legal requirements, including the legal register,” said Roman.
“Once all the relevant information has been entered it provides overall management of all the required procedures by prompting our dedicated SHEQ Controller and managers for updating of documents when the times for them to do so fall due.
“The SHEQ App has enabled us to do without a fulltime SHEQ Manager on site and we now share the SHEQ Manager of another ACTOM division that earlier put in place the same web-based SHEQ App to manage their operations in accordance with ISO requirements, as, like us, they too have accreditation for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
“A further significant benefit of the SHEQ App is that it runs at about half the cost of a traditional system. Auditors are able to review data remotely online prior to site visit verifications, so reducing the cost of audits,” Roman added.
Metalplus is one of only a very few divisions and business units in ACTOM that have all three of the above-mentioned accreditations.
