PCSG is expanding its provision of quality and environmental management system services with the acquisition of Clark Quality.
Founded in 1998, Clark has helped companies in a wide range of sectors to establish, implement and maintain quality and environmental systems and acquire certification to the ‘ISO’ internationally recognised standards. PCSG will now build on CQ’s strong reputation.
The CQ acquisition comes as we welcome a new member to our fast-growing quality and environmental team. Andrew Cuthbertson, a health, safety, environmental and quality (HSEQ) specialist with more than 15 years’ experience, will support our clients in achieving their goals of improving and maintaining sustainability through a systematic and proactive approach to managing HSEQ elements and risks.
Companies in the infrastructure sector and beyond are placing growing emphasis on the introduction and maintenance of environmental and quality systems and their certification to the ISO9001 (quality) and ISO14001 (environmental) standards.
Many are seeking to transition to the newly updated, 2015 ISO standards before the September 2018 deadline.
The experience of our clients is that the quality standard – which helps organisations to meet the expectations and needs of customers by implementing consistent process and procedures and benchmarking performance and service - provides many benefits including enabling companies to continually improve and streamline their operations, become more resilient and reduce costs. Being certified to these standards can also give companies a competitive edge when tendering for work – particularly in the public sector.
A detailed report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research found that “effective application of QM procedures provides an important foundation for future business success and can contribute to an increase in share price, profit, revenue and customer retention as well as employee, customer and user satisfaction.”
PCSG’s own quality management system recently received certification to ISO 9001:2015, making us one of the early adopters of the new standard.
William Yonge, MIEMA, ACQI, who heads-up PCSG’s QEMS team, said: “With the acquisition of Clark Quality and the arrival of Andrew, we are further increasing the range of skills and the experience we can offer to our clients at PCSG and ensuring we can offer the most complete and integrated service possible.”
William had been working closely with existing Clark Quality clients. With the retirement of Lawrence Clark, it was a logical step for PCSG to continue to work with the Clark Quality client base.
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