Global Sustainability Services


Management System Design & Implementation

  • Global Advantage
  • Experience Speaks for Itself
  • Services
  • Results

MSS provides a full range of environmental, health, safety, security, and quality management system services globally. We specialize in bringing companies through management system implementation and certification, providing gap assessment and auditing services, managing internal audit and corrective action programs, and providing one-on-one mentoring to System Managers.

Our team has worked in all regions of the world and we have team members who speak English, German, Spanish, and Chinese.

We have over 20 years of experience in providing Environmental, Health, Safety, Quality, and Security management system services. Management systems designed and implemented by us are in use in countries on six continents. Our certification auditors have performed over 300 Third-Party Certification Audits since 1996.

  • Executive Overview Training
  • Gap assessment
  • Action plan development
  • Hazard & risk identification / prioritization
  • Identification of significant aspects / risks
  • Internal auditor training & internal auditing
  • Root cause analysis and corrective & preventive action program development
  • Coaching through the certification processes for ISO 14001, Responsible Care, Cyanide Code, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 9001

We can efficiently bring your company through full system implementation and third-party certification in as little as 8-10 months. Cost effective and streamlined, we support you on a global scale.


Global Multi-Site Certification Strategies

How you benefit:

Our approach to multi-site management is streamlined with reduced paperwork burden, reducing costs and maximizing your talent's potential. If your company operates multiple sites, your organization can literally save millions per year through standardization and multi-site certification strategies.

Results speak for themselves.

We have worked with companies that have multiple sites using standardized procedures and processes across the globe. Our global implementation strategies are proven and our success with third-party certification auditing firms throughout the world is repeatable and predictable.

Our process:

We take the time to deeply understand your unique needs and goals within your industry. We then provide a customized solution. We specialize in the implementation and auditing of complex global management systems. We clearly communicate and educate your entire organization at all levels. We bring clarity and awareness, while focusing on health and safety of people and the environment.

Sustainability

We are mission focused on core values of sustainability. We instill these values in your team, while bringing about full compliance to international environmental, health, safety, and quality voluntary standards.

Responsible Care® Services

Pass Rate70
Implementation done within 9 months54
Multi-site certificates...87
Satisfied Customers65
Executive Training, Mentoring & Coaching

Ongoing success for your organization comes from recognizing and growing talent from within. What happens, though, when no one at your company has the past experience or expertise necessary to succeed in something as technical as management system implementation and certification? That's where we come in.

Guidance to Excellence

We personally train and mentor your executives and Top Performers and bring them from "Zero to Expert" in your given management system focus area. Along the way we provide tailored advice on developing and instilling sustainable processes for your business.

We mentor and coach individuals with designated responsibilities for Responsible Care®, the ICMI Cyanide Management Code, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 9001 management systems.

Our clients have achieved unparalleled success in achieving their certification goals, their long-term sustainability goals, and industry recognition from industry trade groups.
Here are just three Examples of our Responsible Care® Award Winning Clients:
  • Honeywell Specialty Materials
  • Lacy's Express

Honeywell Specialty Materials received the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care Leader of the year Award in May 2007.

14 May 2007 00:00 [Source: ICB Americas]

HONEYWELL SPECIALITY MATERIALS GETS ACC GOLD AWARD

Employees from Honeywell Speciality Materials and Superior Carriers have been presented with The American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Responsible Care leader of the year award. Honeywell's Maria Krysa is the company's global leader of the Health, Safety and Environment management systems, while Ken Sevcik is vice president of quality assurance for Superior Carriers. Both were commended for their "outstanding work and dedication to Responsible Care." Commenting, Jack Gerard, ACC president and CEO, said, "Responsible Care continues to be the gold standard for industry performance initiatives and [this year's winners] are a fine example for others to follow.

(Retrieved from: http://www.icis.com/Articles/2007/05/11/4502568/in-brief-environment-watch.html)

Lacy's Express received the Responsible Care® Partner Award in 2010.

3 May 2010 [Source: Miami, Florida]

Chemical Industry Leaders Recognized for Responsible Care ® Performance

Responsible Care "Partner Award," being presented for the first time, recognizes the performance and excellent safety record of "partner companies"; for example, companies that are involved in the distribution, transportation, storage, use, treatment-disposal and/or sales and marketing of chemicals. This year's Responsible Care Partner award winners are GATX Rail, Miller Transporters, Inc and Lacy's Express, Inc.

(Retrieved from: American Chemistry Council)

Guidance through the Certification Process...from Start to Finish!

Just the thought of working towards third-party certification for your operations can be daunting. But with our over 20 years of auditing, management system implementation, and manufacturing experience, we can make the journey a smooth one.

From the initial review of your operations through the successful certification of your management system to the continual improvement initiatives to carry your organization through sustainable growth, we are there to advise you and provide resources and technology to succeed.

MSS Team Credentials:

  • BEAC Professional RC14001® / RCMS® Lead Auditor
  • ICMI Cyanide Code Lead Auditor
  • ICMI Cyanide Code Production Technical Auditor
  • ICMI Cyanide Code Transportation Technical Auditor
  • RABQSA Certified ISO 14001 Lead Auditor
  • RABQSA Certified ISO 9001 Lead Auditor
  • OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor
  • Product Stewardship Lead Auditor (according to RC requirements)
  • Dangerous Goods Transportation Auditor


Global Supply Chain Auditing

Our experienced team of auditors conduct thorough environmental, health, safety, and security auditing of supply chains around the world. We are experienced in auditing and performing due diligence reviews for all types of supply chain organizations including:

  • Warehouses
  • Package and Bulk trucking operations
  • Ports
  • Ocean carriers & barge operations
  • Rail carriers
  • Transportation brokerage
  • Freight forwarders

Whether on land or sea, we follow and audit the entire process from chemical production to the ultimate destination. We report credible and reliable performance evaluation results so that you can make sound product stewardship and business decisions.

Protecting people, the environment and sustainability.

Product Stewardship and Compliance

Product Stewardship is at the very core of what Management System Solutions does. It calls upon every individual involved a product’s life cycle of design, production, shipment, use, and disposal, to take it upon themselves to make sure that safe practices are followed and that people and the environment are protected.

We strive to contribute to global sustainability through guiding our customers in the development of robust management systems that will ensure effective product stewardship and product regulatory assurance processes for the design, manufacture, storage, and transportation of their products. This is all done with the focused goal of reducing impacts to health, safety and the environment.

Effective product stewardship processes require a in-depth understanding of design concepts, international product regulations, manufacturing processes, storage and transport regulations, and disposal practices. The complexity of the task at hand is significant. That's why it's so important to have someone with experience at your side.

Management System Solutions also offers compliance auditing services for a number of product-based regulations including ICMI Cyanide Code, EU REACh, Global GHS, just to name a few. Whether your goal is certification, verification, or internal auditing to assure compliance, we have the resources available globally to support you.