IMS comprising of ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System

April 30, 2010
Al Ain, abu dhabi, UAE
Lakshy Management Consultant Pvt Ltd. – one of the largest ISO certification consulting companies with clients in more than 30 countries announced successful completion of Integrated Management System – IMS comprising of ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System, ISO 14001 Environment Management System and OHSAS 18001 occupational health safety management system for the largest landscaping companies in the UAE – Akar Landscaping Services and Agriculture.
This important achievement is a result of 6 months of serious and dedicated implementation by the Team Akar wherein all the employees across all the level of the organization put in their efforts to enable result oriented implementation of the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standard.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Abdel Naser Rahhal – General Manager of Akar Landscaping Services and Agriculture, expressed his happiness and said that “ I am really happy for this important achievement made by my organization. I always believed in our capabilities and processes but ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 system implementation opened up a different perspective to evaluate our business performance and processes. We have better control over our business processes and methodology to continually improve our services. I am proud of my team that has put in remarkable efforts and took the whole implementation exercise very seriously. I am also impressed and satisfied with quality of service offered by our ISO certification consulting partner – Lakshy Management consultant Pvt Ltd. they have been extremely professional and partnering us with the best in class consulting solutions to ensure that our ISO implementation is easy and value adding process.”
Lakshy Management consultant pvt. Ltd that specializes into an entire range of ISO certification consulting services, completed the project under a core team headed by Akar Landscaping Services and Agriculture’s General Manager Mr. Abdel Naser Rahhal , Ms. Dona – Management Representative and Ms. Lubna – Health Safety Environment Manager.
The entire process was divided into several modules like awareness training, gap analysis, initial environment and health-safety review, process design and documentation that included objectives, targets, procedures, sops, work instructions, operation control procedures, emergency preparedness plan, mandatory system procedures etc. After this stage 2 days internal auditor training was conducted and was attended by 18 participants. The team conducted their first internal audit under the guidance of consultant from Lakshy. Lakshy guided the team to close the observed identified non conformities. Management review was conducted under the initial guidance of lakshy management consultant pvt ltd. lakshy management consultant pvt ltd conducted pre assessment audit to ensure that the complete system has been effectively implemented and all the requirements of the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 system are complied with.
After the system was assessed by experts of lakshy management consultant pvt ltd to the satisfaction of lakshy experts, the organization gave go ahead to Akar Landscaping and agriculture services and an audit was planned.
The audit was conducted by one of the largest certification body having UKAS accreditation and after a comprehensive and rigorous audit conducted by the lead auditor, the organization was recommended by the certification body for award of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification. Effectiveness of the system was proved by the outcome of the audit wherein the leadauditor recommended the organization for certification without a single non conformity.
Speaking on this event, Mr. Kaushal Sutaria – senior manager with lakshy management consultant pvt ltd and lead consultant for the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 implementation project for Akar Landscaping Services and Agriculture said that he was happy to be associated with a progressive and system oriented organization like this. He further added that he on the behalf of this organization reaffirms commitment of lakshy management consultant pvt ltd to partner efforts of companies in the emirates of dubai, abu dhabi, sharjah and rest of UAE – united arab emirates in their implementation and achievement of ISO certification. “ we will continue providing world class and superior consulting services to companies in the UAE covering all the emirates of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, sharjah, Fujairah, RAK etc in all the standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, HACCP ISO 22000, ISO 27001, ISO 17025, ISO 20000 etc.”
Akar Landscaping Services and Agriculture is going to celebrate this success by having a party for the employees to celebrate this success and is all geared up to maintain the momentum and continually improve the performance against iso 9001, iso 14001 and ohsas 18001 standard.