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Why Choose LRQA
At LRQA, we are passionate about what we do, and we understand what’s at stake for your business. We work hard to apply our expertise to make your management systems more efficient and effective. This is why we are one of the world’s most trusted management system assessment companies providing assurance for your business – and in turn, your clients.
- Reputation and Experience – We have issued thousands of approvals at more than 48,420 sites. We are recognized and respected worldwide for our own high standards of technical competence, impartiality and independence. We think outside of the confines of the management system to identify and measure its effects on your business. It’s part of our standard of performance.
- Assessor Expertise – Our assessors are highly qualified in their fields of management system expertise – they know our clients’ business and understand their needs. We use a unique qualification coding system that makes certain your LRQA assessors have the right industry background and expertise so they are able to conduct an effective and robust audit of your systems. We aim to provide qualified local assessor(s) to ensure that costs are kept to a minimum.
- Assessment Methodology – Our assessments focus on the area and issues that are important to your business. We view the process as more than just certification; we view it as a Business Assurance process that helps you assure key stakeholders that you can deliver on the promises and goals you make. Through regular surveillance visits we provide ongoing verification of continual improvement in areas that support your declared business goals.
- Assessment Reports – We will provide helpful and insightful overviews in the Executive Summary, tracking of improvements in key areas in the Continual Improvement logs, and advanced views of your long term assessment plan. We look to create benchmarking practices for like-minded progressive companies; therefore, our analysis, reports, observations and advice will be focused on driving business performance and adding value to your organization.
- Valuable support and guidance – We provide quick response to questions through phone, email and our client-only extranet which provides valuable support and guidance materials and a question and answer KnowledgeBase.
- Extensive range of services – We can provide your organization with an extensive range of training, certification and verification services in a variety of fields to support your organization’s future growth and development.
- Integrated Assessments – We will work with you to reduce costs through the effective integration of management system assessments.
- Global Capabilities – We have over 2,000 employees offering assessments in over 30 languages. We operate a single system worldwide, which ensures that our certification process is consistent from any of our offices around the world.
LRQA Business Assurance Approach
Our Business Assurance approach to management systems assessment and reporting is unique; it's an approach that enables you to demonstrate how your system is helping to drive your business forward in a measurable and verifiable way. We believe that building trust stretches far beyond the issuing of certificates. It’s about us enabling you to deliver on your promises, to be confident in your capabilities and to stand out from the crowd.
Through Business Assurance, we can help you determine whether your management system:
- helps your business to be more competitive;
- supports your business objectives;
- supports continual improvement; and
- improves stakeholder satisfaction.
Read more about Business Assurance.
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