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Compliance and Standards
Demonstrating competence and capability to all interested parties through ISO and other standards.
Compliance and Standards services
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CE Marking
Helping you understand and achieve certification to CE mark your products.
Understanding whether you need to CE mark your products can be unclear. We are able to clarify whether or not this is a requirement for your business, as well as provide guidance and support with achieving certification.
It is also based on the same model as other well-known ISO standards, meaning it is commonly combined with standards such as ISO 14001.
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Cyber Security
Helping you understand and achieve certification to both Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001.
Cyber Essentials is a government-backed scheme to help protect businesses online.
ISO 27001 is the internationally recognised standard for information security management.
Staying secure online is becoming increasingly important in todays digital age. We understand the possibilities and benefits of digital and are keen to ensure SMEs stay as risk-free as possible when exploring these.
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Energy
Helping you understand and achieve certification to ISO 50001:2018.
ISO 50001 certification shows that your business is following best practice for your industry and are dedicated to using energy more efficiently.
It is also based on the same model as other well-known ISO standards, meaning it is commonly combined with standards such as ISO 14001.
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Environmental
Helping you understand, implement and achieve certification to the latest ISO 14001 standard.
ISO 14001 is the internationally recognised standard for environmental management.
Some of the benefits of certification are that it can help you to obtain new business, ensures you’re following good practice for your industry and allows you to make continuous, gradual improvements.
WLP also have considerable experience in helping clients with environmental permitting.
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Food
Helping you understand and achieve certification to both ISO 22000:2018 and British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Both BRC and ISO 22000 are globally recognised standards, which demonstrate a company’s food quality and food safety management. Therefore, achieving certification is important, and provides benefits to, businesses at any stage in the food supply chain.
Click the button below for more information on both sets of requirements. We are able to provide guidance and support with both,
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Health & Safety
Helping you understand and achieve certification to ISO 45001:2018 – the updated standard for health and safety.
OHSAS 18001 is being withdrawn and replaced with ISO 45001. There is currently a transition period for all businesses to meet the new and updated requirements of the latest standard.
Certification to this standard comes with significant benefits to health and safety procedures, policies and practices, as well as other additional benefits.
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Quality
Helping you understand, implement and achieve certification to the latest ISO 9001 standard.
ISO 9001 is the internationally recognised standard for quality management systems.
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Registered Laboratories
Helping you understand and achieve certification to ISO 17025:2017.
Certification to ISO 17025 shows you are following best practice for your industry and making gradual improvements among other benefits.
This standard is currently still in a transition period. Businesses with outdated certification should be making the transition to the latest standard, released in 2017.
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Resilience Continuity
Helping you understand and achieve certification to ISO 22301:2012.
ISO 22301 certification shows that your business is protected against, prepared for, responsive to and able to recover from unexpected major incidents, thus ensuring survival of your business.
It is also based on the same model as other well-known ISO standards, meaning it is commonly combined with standards such as ISO 9001, as part of a company system.
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Compliance and Standards - Success Stories (18)
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Successful certification to ISO 13485:2016
Introduction: A Hertfordshire business, specialising in plastic injection moulding and associated tooling production had ambitions to win work in the medical device market. To achieve this, the management recognised that compliance and certification of their quality management system to ISO 13485 was required. WLP were asked to help carry out the necessary changes and position Read More... -
Achieving a Successful Transition to ISO9001:2015
Introduction An impressive and well-run turnkey business, specialising in the plastic injection industry and based in Buntingford, needed support with transitioning to ISO9001:2015. The project would be a challenge for both client and consultant, with the client undergoing significant Infrastructure changes in order to double the size of their facilities. What We Did Provided an Read More... -
Manufacturing Improvement Plan for Noise Control Systems Manufacturer
Introduction: A company specialising in the manufacture and installation of noise control systems across the world, recognised a need to improve manufacturing productivity and become more agile in its ability to meet changing market requirements. What We Did: worked with the client to establish and implement a manufacturing improvement plan covering 3 factory units introduced new Read More... -
Lean Six Sigma used to improve maintenance scheduling & ensure HGV vehicle compliance
A national fleet provider of a mixed vehicle fleet identified that their fleet maintenance scheduling system was not providing effective or consistent planning of the MOT, LOLER / PUWER or vehicle maintenance events. Hence potentially placing their customers O Licence certification at risk! Using Lean Six Sigma methods our consultant worked closely with the client’s Read More... -
Putting Systems Together for an Up-coming Assessment
The clients, who are energy brokers, approached us. They were a newly established company but with established contacts in the industry. They had been trying to put their systems together to provide a good score on Achilles. They had 3 weeks left before an assessment of their system to the Achilles and had made vey Read More... -
Helping Self-adhesive Label Company to grow, become more profitable and be passed on
Over a period of a few years we helped a business grow more profitable and eventually to be sold to the satisfaction of the owners. A self adhesive label printer had produced a variety of similar labels on a number of different machines and stocks inconsistently. Time did not permit comparisons. A large number of Read More... -
Providing a Structured Health & Safety Management System
A company specialising in ironmongery, hardware, homeware and china, had identified that the health and safety management system was no longer providing a benefit to the business or providing the directors with peace of mind that legal compliance was being met. Our consultant reviewed the hazards and risks within the business. Using this, we provided both Read More... -
Engineering Company Achieves CE Marking Certification
An engineering company that produce sheet metal work as well as bespoke solutions for architectural features, needed to undertake external assessment of it’s processes and achieve certification to CE Mark its structural steel products. This was due to the introduction of new legislation in July 2014. Our consultant reviewed applicable directives and standards, before devising Read More... -
Energy Management Company Achieves ISO 9001
One of the leading providers of energy procurement and management services for private and public sector organisations in the UK and across Europe, wished to extend its market reach by obtaining ISO 9001 for all its services. They had received a recommendation to contact WLP as we had helped others connected with this sector. Working closely Read More... -
Improving Quality Systems
We were asked to improve the quality system to meet the requirements of the system for roof truss manufacturer and ISO 9001. The company had used a standard wordy document that did not reflect what they did. We worked with them and produced within 6 weeks the flow diagrams that reflected their current practice and Read More... -
Printer Company – ISO 9002
A printer company was registered to ISO 9000. However the quality system was not embraced by the ‘people’. They had to refocus the quality system and integrate with the company systems, to help take the business forward and support it in its growth. We worked with the management team in order to improve the Read More... -
CE Marking for Road Sign Manufacturer
A manufacturer of vehicle-activated traffic signs needed CE marking for their products. Having previously helped them achieve ISO 9001 certification, WLP was asked to help meet this new requirement. First we identified which EC Directives applied to our client’s products. Next, we determined whether their products already complied, whether any tests were required to prove Read More... -
Installing a ISO 14001 Management System
We were approached by a company that recycles mobile telephones and IT equipment. In order to continue their rapid expansion and development of both UK and overseas markets, the Company needed to help to be certified in an independently accredited and internationally recognized environmental standard. Working closely with Inturn’s team, WLP helped design, install and Read More... -
Improving System Standards…
Office2Office provides a range of business services, including office supplies business, logistics and managed communications. The business has a strong corporate social responsibility ethic and wished to achieve certification to the BS OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard. Our consultant worked with the Group Safety Manager, identified gap between the existing management system Read More... -
Blinds company implements effective Health and Safety
A manufacturer of window blinds and sunblinds, recognising that it was not fulfilling its obligations under health & safety law, sought help to ensure legal compliance. Risk assessments were carried out to determine the health & safety legislation applicable to the business and the measures to be applied to ensure safety and legal compliance. From Read More... -
Achieving environmental standards
Inturn Trading Ltd recycles mobile telephones and IT equipment. To continue their rapid expansion and development in UK and overseas markets, the Company needed to be certified to an independently accredited and internationally recognized environmental standard. Working closely with Inturn’s team, WLP helped design, install and embed a practical, business-friendly environmental management system which complied Read More... -
Chase Plastics puts safety into action with proactive management system
Chase Plastics specialises in the recycling plastic waste to a high quality compound suitable for returning into the manufacturing chain. The business had grown and developed and found itself in need of an occupational health and safety review and the development of a health and safety management system. What we did: From an initial review Read More... -
Reeltime Ltd Opens Doors and Prospers
Reeltime Ltd fulfil a wide range of packaging requirements including tags, cartons, shrink sleeves, labels and sheets using their bespoke Digicon 333 press. They were working for food businesses and needed assessment of their systems to the BRC* packaging standard to continue or gain that work. What we did: We worked with the Directors over Read More...