Management Systems

Implementation of Management systems that work for your business

Absolute Quality will help design a management system that fits your needs and helps improve your business.

Please explore the different types of management systems available through Absolute Quality

Absolute Quality works with our clients and their teams to build management systems that underpin their business needs, legal obligations, customer/supply chain requirements and desired standards.

Our role is to listen to you and your team and create a management system structure and content that addresses your business challenges and opportunities.

We build on your good business foundations to help you to develop a manual and toolkit to run your business efficiently and effectively, ensuring there is a place for everything and everything in in its place.

Then support the development of your team at all levels to engage, enable and empower them to deliver on all aspects of the business’ operations, strategy and drive continual improvement.

Value of a Management System?

CLARITY
  • A manual on how to run your business (capture IP, visions & values, key knowledge, etc.)
  • Everyone understands the business needs & and their role
  • Common sense approach to managing technical requirements.
CULTURE
  • Engage, enable & empower your team
  • Supports and develops a strong culture and behaviours.
COMPLIANCE
  • Provides core foundations as a training tool, reference library and audit checklist
  • Achieve certification to recognised standards e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, etc.
CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT
  • It is a customer sales manual for new contract and tenders
  • Measurable business performance against your strategy and objectives
  • Create a business that is scalable, a saleable asset and/or support exit strategies.
CONFIDENCE
  • Confidence to address your business challenges and opportunities
  • Peace of mind that you are meeting your legal and other requirements
  • Manage ever-changing business environment
  • Reliable to customers and supply chains.

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So you have a successful business, you are doing the right things, but you lack the structure and processes that a management system can provide – you are a bit like a Rubik’s Cube, you have all the right pieces but not always in the right place!

We take a common sense approach to help our clients to build a management system tailored to their business. This principle has shaped our client journey to help them get the best results from our support.

1. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR BUSINESS

Our starting point is to understand your business and the influences upon it. We’ll ask you about your ambitions, challenges and frustrations, so we can work with you to create a management system that provides solutions to your problems and has a positive impact.

2. PUTTING IT INTO A PLAN

The hardest part is knowing where to start and finding the time to do it. We develop an action plan with you, of the challenges that need to be addressed. This is a critical stage that enables us to develop an effective strategy with you and identify key people that will be essential in the implementation of your management system.

3. BUILDING THE SYSTEM

We build and tailor your management system around your business. We help you to integrate monitoring tools, that allow you to develop a dashboard of information which can analyse key areas of the business and identify where improvements can be made. This Plan-Do-Check-Act approach is something Absolute Quality have used for year and have proven it is integral in promoting continual improvement and driving your business forward.

4. WORKING WITH YOU

We may be experts in building management systems, but we are not experts in your business! This is why we take a collaborative approach to make sure the ownership of your system lies with you. Your input is critical throughout the whole process, so by utilising your own resources such as in-house champions, we are able to coach your staff to run and manage the system and make sure that the knowledge is not held by one individual.

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Absolute Quality builds management systems with our clients to underpin their business. Developing a structure that supports their needs and can continue to provide business benefits. We work with clients to:

MANAGE RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES

Identifying your business risks and opportunities with your senior leadership team, looking at both internal and external influences to develop a strategy to address challenges.

UNDERSTAND YOUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS & STANDARDS

Support the leadership team in identifying and understanding your business’ legal obligations and standards requirements, as well as helping you to demonstrate how you are meeting them.

Some clients choose to achieve well-recognised product, quality, environmental and health & safety standards.

STRATEGY, OBJECTIVES & KPI DASHBOARD

Now that you understand your business risks, opportunities, and influences, we help you to facilitate it into a strategy and objectives that mean something to the business, outlining the key resources needed, and developing a KPI dashboard to monitor performance.

PEOPLE & PROCESSES

Develop effective operations by establishing efficient processes and communication methods within your business, integrating any key business software e.g. CRMs, ERPs, Finance, and other apps. As well as identifying clear roles and responsibilities to engage, enable and empower your team to drive the business forward, including a team of champions to drive the management system and key processes.

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

A management system can provide the structure to leadership and can support the running of the business in line with compliance requirement, as well as create the clarity and direction to make decisions based on fact. Enabling you to address key challenges with confidence, establish a strong culture and drive the business forward.

CHANGE, GROWTH & INNOVATION

Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle a management system provides you with the structure to monitor, review and analyse the performance of your business. To identify new opportunities, customer and sectors, as well as the ability to manage any changes to the business and its processes. Supporting growth and promoting innovation.

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Integrated Management Systems

An Integrated Management System combines two or more management system standards, rather than having separate management systems depending on whether you are focusing on quality, health & safety or environmental.

Absolute Quality have spent over 20 years refining their approach to Integrated Management Systems, to make sure it does the hard work for you.

We build Management Systems that firstly support and underpin the needs of your business, but also complies with the standards you require.

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Absolute Quality are committed to developing and supporting management systems that work for your business. Our expertise includes the following management systems. Click on a system for further information:

ISO 9001 ISO 14001 ISO 45001 Achilles SSIP BRC NACB SALSA/Safe & Legal

ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems

ISO 9001:2015 is an internationally recognised standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS), with over one million companies in 170 countries certified to the standard. No matter your business size or sector, ISO 9001 is a proven business improvement tool, following best practice principles that contribute to ensuring consistent, good quality products and services that strengthen customer satisfaction, including; top management involvement, a risk based approach and continual improvement of the business.

ISO 14001 – Environmental Management Systems

ISO 14001:2015 sets out the criteria for an Environmental Management System that is used world-wide. ISO 14001 is designed to be cost effective and flexible in promoting best practice in environmental management. It provides a system to meet legal compliance, reduce waste and improve efficiency.

ISO 45001 – OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

ISO 45001: 2018 is the international standard for occupational health & safety management systems. ISO 45001 sets a global benchmark for the management of occupational health and safety and is designed to prevent work-related injury, ill-health and to provide safe and healthy workplaces.

The benefits of ISO 45001 include the increase of proactive risk prevention, innovation, and continual improvement to build resilience, strengthening legal and regulatory compliance and demonstrating responsibility by committing to safe, healthy and sustainable work.

Achilles

The scope of Achilles varies dependent on your business, including it’s size and sector. The business is assigned a category and the clauses that must be complied with are dependent on which category the Company falls into. However, all categories are audited and assessed on areas such as, Quality, Environment, Health, Sustainability & CSR, Safety and Carbon Management.

SSIP Accredited Certification

There are many SSIP accredited certifications, including SafeContractor, CHAS & Constructionline, to name but a few. SSIP assessments are all judged on core criteria approved by HSE. These core criteria help assist construction businesses to comply with basic health and safety law. Successful assessment by a member of the SSIP can show your clients and others that you have basic health and safety capabilities and can be a very effective “licence to do business” in your sector.

BRC

Food manufacturers and producers who achieve certification against a recognised, respected Food Standard, such as BRC, demonstrate a commitment to producing high quality safe food. Absolute Quality can help your organisation gain certification against the BRC Global standards for Food Safety, Storage & Distribution, Consumer Products and Agents & Brokers.

NACB

The National Association of Catering Butchers scheme allows catering butchers to prove that the standards of food safety, hygiene and quality meet nationally agreed levels of best practice, and gives an assurance to the consumer that products they sell are safe and legal.

SALSA and Safe & Legal

SALSA and Safe & Legal standards are designed for small food manufacturers to demonstrate they are meeting their legal requirements and consider good manufacturing processes that produce food that is consistently safe.

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  • “Videx Security had already achieved ISO 9001:2008 and were keen to improve our procedures in order to move to the new 9001:2015 standard. Helen was instrumental in helping us achieve this standard by implementing a Risk Management Register and updating the whole Management System Manual”

    Andrea Thomas, Videx Security

  • “Alongside the Systems that has been put in place tailored specifically to our Business, Helen has also become involved in our management meetings to ensure this is briefed out and trained to our team and we now consider her a valued member of our Team for the long term.
    If you would like to achieve your ISO’s with a system that means something to your business and have a great time doing so you cannot go wrong with Helen and the team at Absolute Quality.”

    Gary Breach, MD at NECS

  • Andrew Willson has built up a fantastic relationship with the factory at all levels. He supports us in a number of different training capacities and has worked with us to design and deliver a range of packages across both Quality and SHE. He is able to tailor his delivery to the relevant audience and so is able to engage and impact successfully. We will continue to use Andrew as a preferred supplier and continue to build a very productive relationship.”

    Duncan Brown, Nestle Continuous Excellence Coordinator, Nestle Confectionery

  • Absolute Quality has delivered many manual handling training courses to our staff over recent years. The professional service provided by Andrew and his team is second to none. From the initial discussions to understand our training needs and requirements followed by scheduling and delivery of courses and issuing of certificates has always been seamless. Staff feedback not only underlines this professionalism it also highlights the training as engaging and interesting. As a happy client I will continue to consult with and request these training services and have no reservations in recommending Absolute Quality as a company of choice.”

    John Clennell, Health, Safety and Business Risk Manager, Northumbria Community Rehabilitation

  • “We were a million miles away from accreditation when Absolute Quality first came on board and their work with our team to establish a Quality Management system that complements our business has been priceless. We now have a fully functional, manageable, compliant Quality Management system.I would definitely recommend!”

    Domonic Gardner, Managing Director, Velocity

  • “Generally as a small business owner I was sceptical about using consultants, but It was so refreshing to work with Helen at Absolute Quality. She helped us to ensure our quality, environmental and health and safety management system was to the highest standard. In fact in our recent external audit by our UKAS accredited certification body, the auditor commented that our systems were an example of ‘best practice’ and ‘how it should be done!”

    Victoria Browning. Managing Director, Probe Industries