Briggs has always taken the quality of the service provided to its customers very seriously and gained certification to ISO 9001 in May of 2002. In November 2006 it was decided to attain certification to the Environmental Compliance Standard ISO 14001 and the Safety Management Standard OHSAS 18001. New staff was recruited including Phil Richards our SEQ Manager, to design and implement the new systems to meet these Standards.

At an early stage in development it was decided to combine all three Standards into an Integrated Management System. Control of such a wide ranging system across all the Briggs sites and larger vessels was always going to be a challenge. To help achieve this, a software package called Q-Pulse was purchased and this is now an integral part of the system, helping to control documents, audits, non conformances, corrective actions and much more.

It is with a great deal of satisfaction, that after 10 man days of external auditing, we have been advised that Briggs Management Systems now meet the standards of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. The challenge now is to build on these three standards and encourage a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation, always seeking best practice to ensure the safety of our workforce, care of our environment and complete customer satisfaction.