Why outsource QSE (Quality-Safety-Environment) management?

Guarantee the safety and improvement of the environmental footprint of your activities

Whether we are talking about a construction site or the operational management of an industrial activity, companies must take ever more new measures to guarantee the safety of people and protect themselves from any environmental risk. All of these requirements fall under the QSE management (Quality-Safety-Environment). “It is difficult for companies to gather expertise and devote the time necessary to these challenges, explains Jean-Marc Lambert, a partner at the specialized design office ABV Development. The monitoring of these aspects, in fact, involves constant monitoring and, ideally, being part of a quality approach, aimed at continuously improving procedures to guarantee safety and the improvement of the environmental footprint of its activity.”

Shared expertise for environmental management and safety

By supporting numerous actors in their projects, with the ambition to better align environmental issues with the company's objectives, ABV Development became aware of these needs. “However, we have real in-house expertise related to environmental management and safety, which we put at the service of more sustainable approaches, the partner continues. In order to meet the needs of local actors, we have therefore implemented an outsourced management service for these challenges. We can support actors in the short, medium or long term, but also in the obligations relating to the improvement of their processes.”

Reduce the risks associated with the development of your activities

In this way, ABV Development's expertise can be shared and placed at the service of several actors. “The approach, most often, involves support for the internal prevention service or the prevention advisor, which many organizations must have,” continues Jean-Marc Lambert. Any collaboration in this context will result in an analysis of the situation, of the company's activity, of its regulatory obligations, of the risks inherent in its development, of the incidents observed, in order to guarantee its compliance, to make recommendations or to bring it up to standards. “Our knowledge of these issues and the regulatory framework allows our clients to effectively reduce the risks associated with the development of their activities, continues the partner. Analysis, at the level of prevention, can be done both on the safety side and in terms of the environment.”

Outsource environmental and safety regulatory monitoring

Once regulatory compliance has been checked, ABV Development teams can support structures over time, by monitoring regulations for them. “From the list of all the regulations applicable to a given site, it is easy to identify any modification that has an impact on the activity or that involves adapting the procedures in force”, completes Jean-Marc Lambert.

Management of QSE legal requirements in Wallonia and Brussels

La outsourced management of QSE aspects can also result in the presence of an advisor at the heart of the company or on construction sites, on a regular periodic basis. In this way, it benefits from solid assistance in the management of its environmental obligations or in the implementation of quality approaches, possibly supported by ISO-OHSAS certification procedures.

“The advantage lies in the possibility offered by the company to more easily meet its obligations without having to hire a full-time safety or environment manager and to rely on in-depth expertise, assures Jean-Marc Lambert. In addition, this support, which makes it possible to develop a detailed knowledge of the company, should make it possible to better advise it at a strategic level, in order to fully understand a new project or even in order to optimize its procedures and costs.”

By relying on shared expertise in the field of quality, safety and the environment, each company can better look to the future.

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