Management Systems
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Company Background Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is an independent environmental consulting firm providing specialist services in Property and Land, Environmental Management and Industrial Operations Support. CRA Europe, headquartered in Nottingham, delivers services to clients in the UK and Europe. Part of the CRA Family of Companies, the European operations can draw upon the expertise of 3,000 staff in all relevant environmental science, engineering, construction, and IT disciplines.
Management Systems CRA recognises that well-designed and effectivelyimplemented management systems deliver a wide range of benefits to organisations, including legal compliance, business efficiency and reputational and brand enhancement. Our specialists work closely with clients to develop, implement and improve environmental, health and safety (H&S) and integrated management systems to achieve these goals. CRA aims to support our clients in making step changes in business performance, through aligning new systems with business processes and applying them to deliver behavioural, cultural and operational changes leading to sustained improvement. Our approach is to streamline system processes, to deliver maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Our management systems specialists have extensive experience of a wide range of international standards, including ISO 14001 for environmental management systems and OHSAS18001 for health and safety. CRA is also contributing to the revision of ISO 19011 for auditing management systems. CRA’s management systems services include: • Gap analysis against systems standards • Development of management systems conforming to ISO 14001, OHSAS18001 and others • Development of integrated management systems • Training in management systems development, implementation and maintenance • Review and improvement of existing management systems • Strategic guidance in systems development and implementation to meet business objectives • Working as part of corporate management system auditing teams • Alignment of ISO 14001 and OHSAS18001 systems with business processes • External verification of management systems • Seconding staff to provide internal EHS support, as environmental or H&S advisers and members of corporate management teams
CRA is dedicated to working closely with our clients to develop and implement responsive and cost-effective solutions.
Management Systems Support
Developing Systems to Deliver
Single Discipline and Integrated Management Systems
Organisational Goals
CRA has extensive expertise in developing anything from single-discipline stand-alone systems to fully integrated multidiscipline systems across a wide range of sectors.
Global Support CRA provides corporate support globally to multinationals, in system development, roll-out, training and audit.
Systems Software We work with companies using off-the-shelf and tailored software solutions to host management systems, providing development support and training.
We work with our clients to help them understand the potential benefits of management systems and how they can fulfill organisational goals and meet stakeholder expectations.
Business Risk Mitigation Effective management systems should ensure that personnel understand the need to manage risk and have the tools to identify, assess and mitigate risk. This applies to all risk areas, for environment, health and safety, security, business continuity and product quality. Effective risk management results in legal compliance, successful project completion, uninterrupted operations and smooth management of change.
Performance Optimisation CRA’s discipline specialists provide support in performance optimisation, to improve behavioural safety, deliver resource efficiency and minimise emissions, resulting in improved compliance and cost reduction.
Maintaining Momentum We deliver a broad range of management systems training, from generic EMS and HSMS awareness to tailored training in an organisation’s management system procedures. CRA offers specialist management system auditor training. Our packages include webhosted training and traditional face-to-face delivery.
Demonstrating Achievement CRA supports organisations in applying their management systems to generate performance metrics/ KPIs, to meet the requirements of regulatory and voluntary reporting initiatives, including the Global Reporting Initiative, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the Carbon Disclosure Project, and for internal benchmarking and performance management purposes.
Verification and Certification CRA’s IEMA-registered auditors help clients prepare for certification and also undertake verification of systems to the requirements of international standards and regulatory regimes, such as the Environmental Permitting guidance for Best Available Technique for environmental management.
CRA believes that management systems should underpin organisational strategy for corporate responsibility and corporate governance. Effective management systems should help to drive down cost, reduce operating risks, enhance reputation, strengthen brand and deliver positive behavioural and cultural changes, all leading to business success.
How can cra help? CRA Europe, based in Nottingham, delivers services to clients in the UK and Europe. Part of the CRA Family of Companies, the European operations can draw upon the expertise of 3,000 staff in all relevant environmental science, engineering, construction, and IT disciplines. CRA Europe has been delivering high quality environmental consultancy services since 1995.
company Background Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is an independent environmental consulting firm providing specialist services in Property and Land, Environmental Management and Industrial Operations Support. Since our inception in 1976, we have worked for some of the world’s largest multinationals on projects including global environmental management systems implementation, facility permitting, contaminated land remediation, corporate sustainability report verification and carbon accounting. > environmental management services EMS, integrated management systems, corporate responsibility, carbon/GHG accounting, compliance auditing, environmental metrics, strategy development, training and EHS auditing
> industrial > Property and operations support land services Environmental Permit Property transaction management, BAT, EIA, air advice, site investigations, emissions, water emissions, risk assessment, waste and resource remediation, geotechnical efficiency, noise, odour investigations, and and energy assessments, due diligence services health and safety services including ASTM standard including COMAH and Phase 1 assessments risk assessment
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