ISO 9001:2015 (QMS) QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACCREDITATION

At David Watson Transport, we commenced our journey working towards ISO 9001:2015 for our Head Office at Earls Colne in July 2019, working alongside Assent Risk Management and choosing BSI to be our certification partner throughout our ISO accreditation journey. We successfully gained our ISO 9001:2015 (QMS) Quality Management System Accreditation in February 2020. We’re committed to meeting, and exceeding, these requirements secure a prosperous future and sets a unique standard for others to follow. We are committed to continuing to meet all compliance obligations including contractual, statutory, legal, and others of relevance on our journey of ISO accreditation.

FORS GOLD STANDARD

We’ve been FORS members almost since the standard started, and Gold accredited for the last 5+ years. This is the standard required of hauliers that although originated in London is now rolled out across many cities across the UK and is becoming more and more of a requirement. In recent times, FORS have increased their audit regime to achieve Bronze, Silver or Gold – we have to pass three Bronze audits per year to be able to submit information online for both Silver and Gold. Just getting Bronze without any non-compliance is challenging in itself, so you can imagine how much tougher Silver and Gold are. Our last Bronze audit was passed without any Major or Minor non-compliances, in fact, without even an Observation!

CONSTRUCTIONLINE GOLD

Much of our work involves working on construction sites, and many of the bigger players in that sector insist on their suppliers being registered with Constructionline. Similar to FORS, there are Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditations. To achieve Gold we have to submit a high level of quality documentation, and we have to be able to back that up with evidence that ‘we do what it says on the tin’. It’s a complex process to achieve but we always set our goals high.

ACHILLES UVDB B2 (SILVER PLUS) ACCREDITATION

The Utility industry has its accreditation scheme, managed by Achilles and called the Utilities Vendor Data Base. This is an accreditation that we’ve held for many years, originally at the Verify level, which was satisfactory for a transport company.

But we don’t do satisfactory; we like to set our goals high. We are one of only 3 hauliers in the UK to hold UVDB B2 accreditation, and the ONLY specialist transport company to hold it; even then, Silver Plus level indicates a very high score – we actually achieved 100% in every section of the audit – and that’s without all of the ISO accreditations!

Having such a high level of accreditation gives us the scope to work on power stations, including nuclear, all waterworks sites, all gas sites and many more areas of the utility sector.

FIAS

The Fertiliser Industry Assurance Standard is a requirement if a company handles or transports fertilisers, which we do with our articulated fleet, collecting from manufacturing plants and delivering directly to farms.

ALLMI OPERATORS’ FORUM MEMBERSHIP

An extension of ALLMI that came about in 2005, commencing with a small number of lorry loader operating companies getting together to bring about a representation of the end-users of lorry loaders – the transport companies. David Watson Transport Ltd was a founding member of the Operators’ Forum and has been, and continues to be, an active participant since its inception. Our philosophy is to not be led but to lead, so we’ve had the top seat, elected annually, the role of Chair, since the very beginning over a decade ago!