Why the world needs ISO 45001 for workplace safety management system

Whether you are an employee, a manager or a business owner, you share a common goal you don’t want anyone to get hurt on the job. Here we will look at how the standard will reduce risks and create better working conditions around the world.

Benefits of Quality management system ISO 9001:2015

International standard that defines requirements for establishing a quality management system to control and manage your processes to better serve your customer:

THE NEED TO IMPROVE FOOD SAFETY AND TO IMPLEMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE

The liberalization of the global trade, and the fact that the consumers in the industrialized countries are more and more demanding food to be not only economical, but also healthy, tasty, safe and sound in respect to animal welfare and the environment, are changing the so far quantity-oriented food production, guaranteeing the nutrient supply for a nation, into an international quality-oriented food market, where commodities, production areas, production chains and brands compete each other.

The competitiveness of food production will soon be more dependent on the reliability of the safety and the quality of the food and acceptability of the production procedures than on quantity and price.

Investment and cost Associated with Conformity Assessment

When deciding on the appropriate conformity assessment approaches for a particular situation; it helps to be aware of the amount of investment and cost associated with each alternative approach. Most compliance options in regulation, resources must be committed to undertaking conformity assessment. Whether these commitments are considered to be ‘costs of compliance’ or ‘an investment’ in achieving company or public policy outcomes is a matter of perspective.

A-List of Active ISO 9001:2015 Certified Companies

Ser.no	Name	Scope of Certification	Certificate No.	Remarks
1	Biruh Tesfa Irrigation & Water Technology	Production & supply of Plastic Products & services	0002
2	Geosynthetics Industrial Works PLC	Production & Supply of Plastic Pipes, HDPE pipes, Rigid Conduits, Plastic Sheeting & Gabbion Netting	0011
3	Nefas Silk Paints Factory	Purchasing of Input items, Production, Packaging, Storage & Sales of Paints	0012
4	Adami Tulu Pesticide Processing S.C
5	MH Engineering Plc	Road Design and Building (Architectural, Structural, Electrical and Sanitary) Designs as well as Contract Administration	0015
6	Core Consulting Engineers PLC	Road & Bridge Design as well as Construction Supervision	0020
7	Tekle Birhan Ambaye Construction PLC
8	National Alcohol and Liquor Factory	production, Sales, Distribution and Marketing of Liquors, Pure alcohol and Denatured alcohol	0022
9	Amaga PLC Chora Gas and Chemical Products Factory	Production and sales of oxygen gas, nitrogen gas,acetylene gas, sodium hypochlorite and floor wax.	0023
10	Bekas Chemicals plc	Production, packaging, sales and delivery of putty (for glass), liquid and cream detergents as well as industrial purpose surfactants.	0027
11	Roha Pack PLC	Production, packing, storage and sales ofpreform and finished plastic packaging materials	0033
12	Horizon Addis Tyre Share Company	Production & Sales of Diagonal & Radial Tyres	0037
13	Tikur Abay Shoe Share Company	Leather Shoe Production	0041
14	Beha Construction	Building & Water Works Construction	0046
15	Bishan Gari Purification Industries	Production, packing, storage, sales and delivery of Bishan Gari Water Purifier	0048
16	Tekrariwa plastic Products Manufacturing PLC	Production,Printing, Storage & Sales of	0064
17	Maruti Plastic Industry PLC	Production ,Storage & Sales of UPVC pipes	0065
18	Steely RMI pvt.Ltd.Co	Production, Distribution & Marketing of Rebar & Wire Rod	0067
19	Walia Cork	cork products
20	Plastech pLC	HDP & UPVC plastic Products
21	Bahirdar Textile	Textile

Latest News

ECAE begins to test the amount of fiber found in packed foods

The service enables to identify the quality of food.

Researches currently depict that fiber found in food products help to normalize weight and prevent colleen cancer. By scaling up its capacity in well trained human resource and laboratory equipment’s, Ethiopian conformity assessment enterprise, chemical laboratory, launches to test the amount of fiber especially found in packed powder foods products.

In related news the enterprise in collaboration with water technology institute give a one month theoretical and practical training for professional staffs on how to identify the quality of drinking water through laboratory testing and also build up their understanding of food safety management system (ISO 22000) and laboratory management system (ISO 17025) which helps to play a key role in ensuring safe water for the mass.

The Ethiopian conformity assessment which is federal owned public enterprise making its services modernize deliver laboratory testing, inspection and certification services for the mass and also able to replace the systems to a newly revised once ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and ISO 9001:2015.

ECAE launches to test vitamin A, E and D found in food

The service enables to identify the quality of foods especially used for children which was before done abroad and can save hard foreign currency

Ethiopian conformity assessment, chemical laboratory, starts to test the amount of vitamin A, E and D and can widen the scope of its testing services. The service especially helps to identify the amount of vitamins (A, E and D) which are crucial for children mental maturity and physical wellbeing. The enterprise progressively builds the capacity of its staff both in and out of the country and furnished its laboratory in modern testing equipment which makes it to be competent enough to test different types of products in a wider range of parameters.

In this fiscal year based on an agreement reached between governmental and nongovernmental organizations in /out of the country various trainings were conducted on how to care and use testing equipment’s and on chemical analysis which adds up to identify the quality of products.

In related news the enterprise also starts to test and identify the opacity, brightness and whiteness of paper products in its textile and leather laboratory which was before done abroad.

Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF)

National Quality Infrastructure Development Project (NQIDP) is being designed to support the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) with the objective of addressing the major challenges concerning quality and standards in the country. The Project is anchored within the framework of the World Bank Group (WBG) current engagement on the industrialization agenda of the country to support the GoE to achieve its strategic objective of becoming “the light manufacturing hub of Africa by 2025”. NQIDP contributes to Ethiopia’s expected outcome of improved quality system, which in turn has positive impacts on the country’s ambition of achieving accelerated and sustained growth.

NQIDP is designed to strengthen NQI in Ethiopia in line with international standards and best practice so as to address the main development challenges related to NQI. The project has three interconnected components: (i) Component 1: Support to Institutional and Regulatory Development; (ii) Component 2: Support to Private Sector Engagement; and (iii) Component 3: Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation. Addressing different gaps in the supply and demand side of the NQI services, each component will leverage the inputs and outputs of other project components to ensure that the development objective of the project is realized in an integrated manner. The NQIDP proposed to cost US$50 million. The project is complementary to the ongoing WBG initiatives and within the framework of the industrialization program. Read More