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| What is an integrated management system? |
- Traditionally, companies have treated ‘quality’ and ‘health & safety’ as separate disciplines; one does not impact on the other. Increasingly now, other issues such as care for the environment and social responsibility are becoming important.
- For many reasons, therefore, it makes good business sense to coordinate these tasks to become a single management system. This approach also requires a new way of management thinking.
- Furthermore, there are real benefits in introducing a single management system which brings together all facets of the business – not just quality, health & safety, environment, but also the core business activities such as personnel/HR, marketing, sales, product development, finance & accounting, customer support.
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| What are the benefits of this approach? |
- quality, health & safety, environment are no longer seen as something different, but as something for which all employees have a responsibility
- the common tasks in such systems – internal audit, document control, tools for continual improvement – can be coordinated and integrated
- an integrated management system can become a single, consistent way of explaining all the business’s activities
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| How can we help? |
- we can help you design an integrated management system, for your business
- if needed, we can help combine any existing formal management systems you may have into a single, consistent format
- we can help with the organisational implications of such an approach – eg. the change from a narrow view to an ‘open’ view, recognising all aspects of business responsibilities
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