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Chris Shaw
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New standards set solid foundation
06 August 2018
Lanes Utilities is using new international standards to integrate its management systems in a process that is already delivering significant benefits for its teams and clients.

The business, part of Lanes Group plc, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, is the wastewater network services maintenance partner for Thames Water.
Lanes Utilities has transitioned to new 2015 versions of both ISO 9001 for Quality Management Systems and ISO 14001 for Environmental Management Systems. It hopes to transition from OHAS 18001 to ISO 45001, the new health and safety standard, by the end of 2018.
Hannah Clark, business systems and compliance manager for Lanes Utilities, said: “Moving to the new ISO standards is already having some significant benefits for us. They are designed specifically to support the sensible integration of management systems documentation required for compliance with individual standards.
“This is reducing our paperwork, streamlining process management, and giving greater clarity and credibility to the way we manage our work both inside and outside the organisation.”
Transitioning to the new standards has allowed Lanes to align its standards more closely with those set by Thames Water. Systems have already been tested operationally and have worked well.
New elements in each standard have been embraced by the management team at Lanes Utilities, which has 1,400 people, including contractors, and operates 390 specialist wastewater vehicles to maintain the UK’s largest and most complex sewer and drain network.
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