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Integrated Management Systems

Business solutions to improve your operational efficiency

A management system of any type – health and safety, environment, security, or quality, can require a huge amount of work to compile and complete, with vast amounts of information stored in both hard copy and on a company's document management system. Extracting who does what, keeping track of processes and procedures, and tracking progress is a substantial challenge to all organizations, in particular those needing to comply with a certification to company, national, or international standards.

And it can get more complicated if a second, or third, management system is implemented in the organization. Given that management systems usually work to minimize exposure to risk, it is not an ideal situation for anyone if existing management systems conflict or create unclear roles and responsibilities for personnel.

If your organization has a mature management system in place and is about to implement a new management system, it may be time to consider integrating the two systems.

An integrated management system (IMS) is one framework for several previously separate management systems, grouped together to form a single system. An IMS can include two or more management systems: quality (AS/NZS ISO 9001), environment (AS/NZS ISO 14001), security (ISO 28000), and occupational health and safety (AS 4801), which can be assessed in a single audit while still achieving certification to the various individual standards.

As well as proving that your company is committed to enhancing efficiency, the development of an integrated management system has many other benefits:

  • aligns company objectives
  • minimizes disruption caused by external audits
  • reduces costs
  • avoids duplications
  • streamlines the flow of information through the organization and potentially improves internal collaboration
  • assigns clear roles which results in improved understanding and recognition of responsibilities and interrelationships
  • identifies gaps
  • clarify procedures

How can Sustainability help you?

  • Our competent audit team is able to perform integrated management system audits, or initial assessments to check your organisation's suitability to integration
  • Our business process and information management consultants have considerable experience in the drafting, design, and documentation of business processes and the implementation of integrated management systems. We utilize a range of tools, techniques, and methodologies to assist clients take advantage of the many benefits of clearly defining their business processes so that personnel know who does what when, how they should do it, who is responsible, and how and when decisions made and controls implemented.
  • Our flagship process mapping software, VimProcess, can assist clients turn business processes into manageable work flows and tasks. Visit our VimSuite Business Solutions Software website to trial or buy our tools - http://www.vimsuite.com/. A sample process chart is provided below.
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