What is ISO 9000 certification?

ISO 9000 certification is the system that qualifies a company. This means supplying the customer with certainty that the certified company will supply that requested. The ISO system recognised worldwide. The standards of the ISO 9000 family indicate how a company must operate in order to supply a quality product or service, i.e. that requested by the customer. This family of standards supplies organisational indications, for this reason it can be adapted to different sectors of activities .Certification according tot his family of standards is a system certification i.e. the goods nor the service are certified, but the company management system. The certificate that is issued is the declaration that the company adopts a system of rules, responsibilities, and controls in compliance with the family of ISO standards.

Why is ISO certification important?

To verify the correct implementation of the Management System.

The company implements a quality system (or environmental management) it uses many resources so that the system it adopts is in compliance with the reference standards.

To inform that the improvements obtained depend on a Management System and not isolated initiatives.

A good service or the good quality of a product can depend on an accidental combination of positive factors or the good will of the staff. However, with certification the company informs that the quality that the customer perceives is not accidental, that a precise will exists and a group of rules has allowed the arrival at that result.

Have continuous stimulation for improvement

The fact that the company knows that it has scheduled external controls of its system, means knowing that improvements are always possible and their maintenance is not a trivial operation. A constant stimulation to consider every objective attained as a threshold that can always be exceeded and improved.

ISO 14001 Environmental Policy

The E.T.S. Engineering SpA is a leader Company in the activity of design, production management, sales, installation and servicing of overhead cranes, gantry, jib and electromechanical systems of transport and lifting. The crane manufacturing involves the production management coming from design phase especially related to welding, mechanical aspects and surface treatments. The E.T.S. Engineering SpA, aware of the importance that environmental protection plays with its staff. Therefore ETS has decided to implement an Environmental Management System according to UNI EN ISO 14001 in December 2004, in order to preserve the environment in the context of the production site where it operates. The Environmental Management System is designed to prevent and reduce the environmental impacts associated with activities that are practiced in the production site with the help of the staff, with a view to continuous environmental improvement, in compliance with environmental legislation and the needs of citizens and customer feedback. The management ensures that:

• Promote environmental commitment through information, training and awareness of staff, workers and citizens.
• Disclose the environmental policy, objectives, the environmental program, developed through constant comparison of stakeholders and environmental performance.
• Encourage and stimulate participation in the project of each department manager and operator
• Implement an Environmental Management System to monitor and measure the performance of the environmental performance of the activities that take place within the company also involving those suppliers who are entrusted outsourcing, with actions aimed at protecting the environment.
• Coordinate the activities of all stakeholders, increase the collection of waste, protect and enhance the green areas of the company.
• Provide all necessary resources to achieve the environmental objectives planned by promoting the use of best available technology economically achievable.

The addresses above are translated into specific objectives and detailed in an environmental program that the company has adapted to the respective requirements resulting from both legal requirements and internal needs, taking care to update the state of progress in order to measure the improvement of the various actions.

What is ISO 45001?

ISO 45001 is the world international standard for occupational health and safety, enacted to protect employees and visitors from work-related accidents and illnesses. ISO 45001 certification have been developed to mitigate all factors that can cause irreparable damage to employees and companies. Its standards are the result of a great deal of effort by a committee of health and safety management experts who have closely examined a number of other approaches to system management, including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Additionally, ISO 45001 was designed to take into account other safety methods and standards, such as OHSAS 18001, and ILO safety standards, conventions and guidelines.

ISO 45001 certification: why is it important?

The ISO 45001 certification standard defines the requirements of an organizational system capable of effectively managing the health and safety requirements of the workplace to prevent occupational diseases, accidents and white deaths.
It aims to improve workplace conditions precisely with regard to health and safety, also improving the production efficiency of organizations.
The UNI ISO 45001 certification standard compared to the OHSAS 18001 standard focuses more on the role that takes place within the organizational system of a company than all the interested parties. Top Management (leadership) and the people who can influence decisions and the achievement of objectives are also called into question. Such as, for example, interested parties, i.e. external parties, such as customers, suppliers and the company.

The ETS Engineering Spa shall be notified through Bureau Veritas according to Directive 94/9/EC – ATEX – Attachment VIII..

This means, first of all, that ETS realized a Technical File, consigned to a Recognized Third Part, on the risk connected to machines that operate in environments with explosion hazards as required and imposed by the ATEX Directive. Secondly, that ETS designs and manufactures overhead cranes, jib cranes, hoists and lifting systems in respect and according to Directive 94/9/EC ATEX Directive in force throughout Europe and implemented all over the world.

ETS has achieved the registration and certification of its EAC branded products according to the following technical regulations:

• TR CU 012/2011 “On safety of equipment intended for use in explosive atmospheres”
• TR CU 010/2011 “On safety of machinery and equipment”
• TR CU 020/2011 “On electromagnetic compatibility of technical devices”

Mandatory serial certification

As of February 15, 2013, new technical regulations (TR) came into force to replace the previous requirements.

GOST certificates expired on March 15, 2013.

The customs union sanctioned in 2010 between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan decreed the establishment of the single EAC certification mark (Eurasia Certification) which replaces the national GOST marks (R for Russia, B for Belarus and K for Kazakhstan).

The ETS products covered by the EAC mark are:

• Bridge cranes and explosion proof jib cranes
• Explosion-proof electric hoists
• Non-sparking manual hoists