The occupational health and safety systems in place at four of the Davies Turner Group’s regional distribution centres in the UK has been certified to the ISO45001:2018 standard by the market-leading provider of ISO compliance certification and risk management training solutions, ISOQAR.
Three of the hubs are operated by the company’s surface freight subsidiaries, Davies Turner & Co, and Davies Turner Logistics, whilst the fourth is the Heathrow-based headquarters of airfreight subsidiary, Davies Turner Air Cargo. All are large, busy and fast-paced warehousing and logistics operations.
Carl Inman (Group Health, Safety, Insurance and Environment Manager of the Davies Turner Group, said: ”For many years, occupational health and safety responsibility has been of great importance to Davies Turner, and we have been actively involved in initiatives at site level to develop good practice.
“The decision to work towards formal recognition of our occupational health and safety initiatives made sound business sense, but was also fully supported by the company’s board of directors as it demonstrates the company’s ethos.”
“Over the last few years, we have also seen our clients seeking greater evidence that Davies Turner is fully engaged with governance issues or objectives. Some are making standards like ISO45001 and ISO14001 a requirement for suppliers with which they work, providing reassurance that they are dealing with a responsible company, which understands its responsibilities for safeguarding employees, other stakeholders and the environment.
“The certification demonstrates that Davies Turner is committed to occupational health and safety issues and is proactively working to minimise incident reporting.
“In addition, it helps further differentiate our company from our competition since the number of other UK freight forwarding businesses that have IS045001 accreditation is still small.”
Measures are in place to cascade the ethos of the occupational health and safety standard to the other branches and freight hubs within the Davies Turner Group’s network in the UK and Ireland, with the aim of progressively implementing the ISO standard at other locations within the Group as part of a long term business plan for enhancing all the company’s work on business governance issues.
The latest certification is in addition to Davies Turner’s ISO14001 and ISO9001 accreditation (achieved in 2013) and recognition by HMRC as one of the UK’s first Authorised Economic Operators (AEO). The company also has Investors in People (IIP) status, meeting the highest standards of people management.
“These certificates, which confirm Davies Turner’s achievement of internationally recognised standards of quality, safety, health and environmental responsibility, clearly demonstrate our commitment to all of the company’s stakeholders,” Inman concluded.
