Transdev is celebrating after being awarded three globally-recognised benchmarks for quality, sustainability and safety. The Harrogate-based company’s engineering and operations teams across its nine depots in Yorkshire and Lancashire have won recognition from the ISO, the International Organisation for Standardisation, an independent body which works across 171 countries to ensure consistent delivery in technology, management and manufacturing.
Transdev now holds three ISO standards marks, including ISO9001 for quality, which recognises efficient working, including reducing waste, ISO14001 for environmental awareness, which sets out an effective environmental management system, and ISO45001 for health and safety, covering hazard assessment and risk control to reduce illness, accidents and injuries at work.
Transdev Blazefield Operations Director Vitto Pizzuti said: “ISO standards are agreed internationally by experts to act as a formula which sets out the best way for us to provide a safe and efficient service to our customers, from our engineering workshops to the end of a customer’s journey with us.
“ISO encourages the highest standards across our business, giving our customers the confidence that when they choose to travel with us, they can be assured that every aspect of what we do has been measured against a globally-recognised set of benchmarks that are all about making things better, easier and above all, safer.”
Transdev will implement the three ISO standards across its business over the next 12 months, with a company-wide standards team led by Head of Operations Alan Isherwood tasked with ensuring compliance at all of its depots.
Over 25,000 ISO standards cover almost all aspects of technology, management and manufacturing – with businesses invited to adopt ISO standards on a voluntary basis. ISO’s first standard, setting out a reference temperature for length measurements in industry, was published in 1951 from ISO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
