SEPA - ISO Standards
Standards make an enormous and positive contribution to most
aspects of our lives. They help ensure desirable characteristics of
products and services such as quality, environmental friendliness,
safety, reliability, and efficiency - and at an economical
cost.
ISO standards are voluntary but are developed with the agreement
of all participating member countries. They provide standards for
good management practice and for services. Details about ISO and
the standards it promotes can be found at http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm.
SEPA's aim is to provide an efficient and integrated environment
protection system for Scotland, which will both improve the
environment and contribute to Scottish Ministers' goal of
sustainable development.
To support this SEPA aspires to principles of several of the ISO
standards. We are externally audited against them every year by
external auditors from LRQA or UKAS.
SEPA is corporately certificated to the following ISO
standards:
- ISO 9001:2008: The requirements for
a Quality Management System which will
demonstrate our commitment to customer satisfaction and
meeting regulatory requirements, as well as encouraging continuous
improvement of our business systems.
- ISO 14001:2004: The requirements for an Environmental
Management System which will systematically manage our
environmental impacts, demonstrate our commitment to the
environment and ensure compliance with existing
regulations.
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The scope of our certification to both standards is :
"Provision of integrated, sustainable environmental improvement
for Scotland, including monitoring, understanding, advice,
regulation and information. Associated support and administration
services."
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We are jointly certificated to both standards by LRQA with
Approval Certificate no: LRQ 4006692. Validity and scope of the
certificate can be independently checked with LRQA. Email: enquiries@lrqa.co.uk
SEPA laboratories hold Accreditation from the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service (UKAS) for certain tests to the
following ISO standard :
- ISO/IEC 17025:2005 : The requirements for competence to
carry out laboratory tests including sampling. Details of
accredited tests are given in the Schedule of Accreditation for
SEPA.
- The scope can be found on the UKAS web site : http://www.ukas.org.uk/, selecting
Testing then testing labs website by using the SEPA accreditation
number 1327.
Certificates: