Ryan Ba­choo

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has an­nounced it is now ISO 9001:2015 cer­ti­fied. ISO 9001:2015 is the world’s most recog­nised in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dard that spec­i­fies re­quire­ments for a qual­i­ty man­age­ment sys­tem (QMS).

It is a Qual­i­ty Man­age­ment Sys­tem geared to­wards de­vel­op­ing and stan­dar­d­is­ing poli­cies and pro­ce­dures to en­sure that qual­i­ty ser­vice is ad­e­quate­ly de­fined, con­sis­tent­ly de­liv­ered and meets ap­plic­a­ble statu­to­ry and reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ments.

Ac­cord­ing to the EMA, "Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (or “reg­is­tra­tion”) to ISO 9001:2015 is ac­com­plished through re­cur­ring “au­dits” by an in­de­pen­dent ISO reg­is­trar, who reg­u­lar­ly re­views to en­sure that the EMA con­sis­tent­ly per­forms the best man­age­ment prac­tices, meets the needs of our stake­hold­ers and con­tin­u­ous­ly im­proves in com­pli­ance with this stan­dard.

Achiev­ing this re­spect­ed cer­ti­fi­ca­tion speaks to our core val­ues of in­tegri­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and ac­count­abil­i­ty and our con­tin­ued ef­forts to im­prove."