Integrated Management System

Hundreds of thousands of companies around the World have implemented management systems for such standards as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and others. To satisfy customer, regulatory and other requirements, increasingly companies need to implement more than one management system. Often these systems are maintained as separate management systems, while there are numerous common elements that can be managed within one integrated management system. There are a few areas where an organization can realize noticeable financial benefits from using an integrated management system: documentation and audits.

Quite often in our consulting practice we see companies developing the same process procedures for individual management systems. These may include management review, documentation management, audit and other common processes. While costs of preparation and maintenance of such duplicate documents are difficult to estimate, they may be unexpectedly high. For example, a company can easily reduce the number of audit days by 30% - 40%, saving thousands of dollars per year by integrating their ISO 9001 ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 systems.

An integrated management system is a system that unites all of company's systems into one structure. Maintaining an integrated management system, each function in your company becomes aligned behind a single objective: improving the performance of the entire organization. Instead of quality, environmental and other "silos", the organization develops a harmonized system. An integrated management system allows businesses to efficiently and effectively improve business performance and reach organization's objectives.