Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Certification is a real benchmark for well-governed companies to achieve. KHIPU Networks has been certified as meeting the following internationally-recognised system standards: ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
Certification includes regular six-monthly audits via impartial, third party auditors. We have been audited and certified by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, and our formal certificates are available for inspection at any time. Our certification scope covers every aspect of our business activities.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards. International Standards give state of the art specifications for products, services and good practice, helping to make industry more efficient and effective. Developed through global consensus, they help to break down barriers to international trade.
Our current ISO Certification includes:
ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Assurance Standard)
As one of the UK’s leading security-focused systems integrators, KHIPU Networks has a commercial interest to ensure that our systems and processes provide the best products, service and support to our customers.
This Quality Assurance Standard has a range of benefits:
Improved product, process and service quality
Increased customer satisfaction levels
Improved productivity, less wasteThese benefits are achieved by focusing on customer satisfaction, process management and measurement, continual improvement and greater senior management involvement.
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (Information Security Management System Standard)
The aim of the System Security Information Management Standard is to ensure that adequate controls addressing confidentiality, integrity and availability of information are in place to safeguard the information of ‘interested parties’. This includes customers, employees, trading partners and the needs of society in general.
Unprotected systems are vulnerable to computer-assisted fraud, sabotage and viruses. Breaches in information security can allow vital information to be accessed, stolen, corrupted or lost. System Security Information Management also ensures that we manage the integrity of our data systems, ensuring regular backups, resilience and business recovery plans.
We want our customers to know that we have the appropriate controls and procedures in place to avoid such incidents.
ISO 14001:2015(Environmental Management System Standard)
The Directors at KHIPU Networks are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of all operations across the company, while at the same time heightening awareness of environmental issues with all of our staff and supply chain.
Adopting ISO14001 has brought immediate improvements to our environmental performance as well as providing a continual process to reduce our carbon footprint on a daily basis.
Our customers can also be assured that Khipu both recognises and complies with all relevant environmental laws and regulations.
ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Standard)
Health and Safety is a mandatory requirement for any business, KHIPU is one of the first companies in the UK to receive ISO 45001 certification for all of our activities. We originally undertook OHSA 18001 certification and then transitioned to the new ISO 45001 standard to ensure that we operate to the best possible practices and procedures internally, externally at our customer sites as well as ensuring any sub-contractors we use are also operating safely.
ISO 45001 was developed with consideration of other related standards, such as OHSAS 18001, Occupational health and safety management, the International Labour Organisation’s ILO-OSH 2001 guidelines and various national standards, and is consistent with the ILO’s international labour standards and conventions.
ISO 45001 adopts a risk-based approach that ensures it is effective and undergoes continual improvement to meet the ever-changing context in which KHIPU operates.
Our customers can be assured that Khipu operates to the highest
internationally recognised practices.
About ISO
The ISO story began in 1946 when delegates from 25 countries met at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London and decided to create a new international organisation ‘to facilitate the international coordination and unification of industrial standards’.
In February 1947 the new organisation, ISO, officially began operations. Since then the ISO have published over 19 500 International Standards covering almost all aspects of technology and manufacturing. Today ISO have members from 164 countries and 3 368 technical bodies to take care of standard development. More than 150 people work full time for ISO’s Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. Because ‘International Organisation for Standardisation’ would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), The founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.