ISO 9001:2008 specifies quality system requirements to be used where an organization requires the ability to consistently provide conforming products, either material or services to meet a customers expectations. The requirements are aimed at achieving customer satisfaction by preventing non-conformances.

The ISO 9001:2008 standard provides a model on which an organization may build an effective quality management system, including:

• Increased efficiency of your operations
• Cost savings from reduced rejected product and fewer warranty claims
• Continual improvement of the quality of your products and services
• Increased traceability and accountability throughout your organization
• Enhanced ability to examine how employees work and interact between functions
• Enhanced communication among employees
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Fewer customer audits and surveys
• Improved competitive positioning within your industry
• Increased marketability of your company and its products
• Perceived higher quality
• Recognition by your customers and suppliers that you have a first–class quality management system
• Improved return on assets

Underwriters Laboratories® (UL) is an independent safety certification organization that has been testing products and writing standards for safety for more than a century. A household name in the United States, UL is one of the most recognized conformity assessment providers in the world. UL evaluates more than 19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems annually with 20 billion UL Marks appearing on 72,000 manufacturers’ products each year.

UL’s worldwide family of companies and network of service providers includes 64 laboratory, testing and certification
facilities serving customers in 98 countries.

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The RoHS Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment".  This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.

Manufacturers need to understand the requirements of the RoHS Directive to ensure that their products, and their components, comply.

If you would like to download a copy of the RoHS Enforcement leaflet that covers information on the service we provide then please either:
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WHEN DID RoHS COME INTO force?

The RoHS Directive and the UK RoHS regulations came into force on 1 July 2006.
The RoHS Directive is an Article 95 single market directive.

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Enforcing RoHS

The National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has been awarded the contract to set up the UK’s national RoHS enforcement body.