Leading Irish Businesses Awarded NSAI Certification
Tuesday, 27th November 2012: Dublin’s Simon Community was one of 48 private and public sector organisations receiving awards today from the Minister of State for Small Business, Mr John Perry T.D. The Simon Community joined the likes of the international telecommunications company Vodafone and the state’s Forensic Science Laboratory in achieving certified levels of excellence under a range of headings. These included Environmental Management, Quality Management, Excellence Through People, and standards for Customer Contact Centres. The Minister joined the CEO of the National Standards Authority of Ireland to present the awards and to recognise the importance of standards in today’s competitive climate.
“Standards are vital in the current economic climate, particularly for SMEs,” the Minister said. “Implementing standards in business can help to focus the resources spent on research and development, and to effectively allocate resources in the toughest of times and improve their ability to innovate.”
Among the companies present at the event were Electric Ireland who received certification for Environmental Management and for Health & Safety, the Dublin Simon Community who received ‘Excellence Through People’ certification, and global telecommunications giant Vodafone, which received the new Customer Contact Centre standard (I.S. EN 15838).
Speaking at the presentations, Maurice Buckley, CEO NSAI highlighted the real business value of achieving certified standards: “There is a return on investment from implementing standards. The companies present today confirm that; they are leading companies from various industries and sectors including public, private and the charities sector, and they would not be spending time and resources on achieving these standards unless they knew they had a real benefit. We are seeing a growing trend of European and international customers who expect such certified standards as entry level for doing business with them.”
NSAI invites members of the business community and the general public to get involved in the development of standards by visiting Your Standards, Your Say
For certification queries contact: certification@nsai.ie
For media queries please contact: Peter O’Reilly, NSAI PR Officer, Ph. 01-8073804
“Standards are vital in the current economic climate, particularly for SMEs,” the Minister said. “Implementing standards in business can help to focus the resources spent on research and development, and to effectively allocate resources in the toughest of times and improve their ability to innovate.”
Among the companies present at the event were Electric Ireland who received certification for Environmental Management and for Health & Safety, the Dublin Simon Community who received ‘Excellence Through People’ certification, and global telecommunications giant Vodafone, which received the new Customer Contact Centre standard (I.S. EN 15838).
Speaking at the presentations, Maurice Buckley, CEO NSAI highlighted the real business value of achieving certified standards: “There is a return on investment from implementing standards. The companies present today confirm that; they are leading companies from various industries and sectors including public, private and the charities sector, and they would not be spending time and resources on achieving these standards unless they knew they had a real benefit. We are seeing a growing trend of European and international customers who expect such certified standards as entry level for doing business with them.”
The standards awarded were:
- ISO 9001 - Quality Management Systems;,
- ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems;
- OHSAS 18001- Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems;
- ETP 1000 - Excellence Through People;
- I.S. EN 15838 - Customer Contact centre standard.
Full listing of the companies certified by NSAI as part of this event :
- Ability West
- Achilles Procurement Services Ltd
- Arup
- Bord Gais Networks
- Clark Executive Ltd
- Coffey Group
- Coldcut Logistics Ltd
- County Kildare Local Employment Service
- CWS Communications Ltd
- Derrycourt Company Ltd
- Dublin Simon Community
- Electric Ireland
- Elmore Group
- Endoval Limited
- ESB Networks
- Evolusion Innovation
- FCmTravel Solutions
- Fónua Ltd
- Forensic Science Laboratory
- Hickey Metering
- Homan O'Brien Associates
- J Vaughan Electrical Engineering Contractors
- Limerick County Fire & Rescue Service
- Mason Hayes & Curran
- McCreery Contract Cleaning
- McGraths Limestone Works Ltd
- MRSE Ltd
- North Tipperary Fire & Rescue Service
- Petro Systems Management
- PQE Technology Limited
- RILTA Environmental Ltd
- Rivval Limited
- Trim Engineering Ltd
- VIP Taxis
- Vodafone
- Webprint Concepts Limited
- Mirabo Systems
- Marine Institute
- Printrun Ltd
- Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland
- Reitech Limited
- Automsoft
- Colas Group
- Mooney Boats
- Optima
- Showglade Limited
- Stanley Macadam Road Surfacing Ltd
- Tighe Engineering
- Xtratherm - Mark Magennis [NSAI Agrément Thermal Modeller Scheme]
NSAI invites members of the business community and the general public to get involved in the development of standards by visiting Your Standards, Your Say
For certification queries contact: certification@nsai.ie
For media queries please contact: Peter O’Reilly, NSAI PR Officer, Ph. 01-8073804
