P.C.O. Licence
It is now illegal in London to trade as a private hire operator without being in possession of a licence or temporary permit issued by the Public Carriage Office.
Any person, partnership or company may apply for a licence and providing they meet the required standards will be granted a licence for a period of five years. Operators must display their licence at operating centre(s) and must adhere to certain licensing requirements for the duration of this licence. Any operator found failing to meet the conditions on which a licence was granted may have that licence suspended or revoked.
ISO 9001:2000
Introduction:
The demand of today's commercial environment on company organizations has
escalated. This has caused customers to become increasingly dependent on the
services of ISO accredited companies as a measure of reliability, consistency &
commitment to quality supply. As Directors and Managers have become increasingly
event driven by internal priorities & the ever-changing marketplace, it has become
more difficult to devote the time & resources required to develop & maintain an
Accredited Management System. An external review of your current Management
System or the introduction of a unique system tailored to suit your company needs,
can therefore prove invaluable. Operating throughout the U.K, QM.UK offer services
designed to improve both the efficiency & profitability of your company, compliant
with the essence of the ISO 9001:2000 standard.
Definition:
ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally recognized Standard. It is a document, which defines
the elements of organization required by a company to operate & maintain a Quality Management
System, i.e. Management Responsibility, Resource Management, Product Realization, Measurement, Analysis & Improvement.
For the purpose of Accreditation a company must document its practices in a Quality Manual,
defining its Operating Procedures/Processes, Objectives and Policy for achieving them, these
documents are assessed to ensure they fulfil the criteria of the standard & satisfactorily envelop
all elements of the companies operations. When the documentation is found satisfactory, the company
is then audited to ensure they are complying with all elements of their documentation, and that their
System is successfully managing all aspects of their business. On satisfactory conclusion of this process
a company is Certificated, Accredited with operating to a system which is compliant to the essence of the
ISO 9001:2000 Standard.Companies are reassessed annually to ensure they are maintaining their system in compliance with the Standard.
ISO 14001
ISO 14001 was first published in 1996 and specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system. It applies to those environmental aspects which the organization has control and over which it can be expected to have an influence.
ISO 14001 is often seen as the corner stone standard of the ISO 14000 series. However, it is not only the most well known, but is the only ISO 14000 standard against which it is currently possible to be certified by an external certification authority. Having stated this, it does not itself state specific environmental performance criteria.
This standard is applicable to any organization that wishes to:
- implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system
- assure itself of its conformance with its own stated environmental policy (those policy commitments of course must be made)
- demonstrate conformance
- ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations
- seek certification of its environmental management system by an external third party organization
- make a self-determination of conformance
