Supervisory Audits have been held at «KARPATNAFTOCHIM»

Supervisory Audits have been held at «KARPATNAFTOCHIM»

This week «KARPATNAFTOCHIM» LTD was visited by a leading auditor of «Bureau VERITAS Certification, Ukraine» LTD Valery Grynevych and auditor of this famous international company Alexander Govorun. Specialists of Bureau VERITAS were conducting at the enterprise the first supervisory audit for complying of management quality system to the requirements of the management systems standards ISO 9001:2015, and the second supervisory audit for complying of occupational safety and labor to the international standard ISO 45001:2018.

Auditors worked in the departments, service divisions, at production facilities of ethylene and polyethylene as well as at PVC-S and caustic soda production facilities, checking the fulfillment and maintaining of requirements of standards ISO 9001:2015 і ISO 45001:2018 at the enterprise.

Last year system of quality management of the enterprise has successfully passed the re-certification audit, and a new certificate ISO 9001:2015 with validity term for the next three years was received from company «Bureau VERITAS Certification, Ukraine». And now during the first supervisory audit the inspectors should be persuaded that this certified system of quality management is also thereinafter reliable, effective, acting and is constantly being improved.

–  It’s already the second supervisory audit of our labor protection management system since the enterprise has obtained the certificate of international standard ISO 45001:2018, – informed Vasyl Kucher, a chief of  department for industrial safety, labor and ecology protection. – Apropos, ISO 45001:2018 is a new international standard, which had substituted the standard OHSAS 18001:2007. And our enterprise «KARPATNAFTOCHIM» was among first industrial enterprises in Ukraine, where the systems of occupational safety and labor protection were switched to a new version of international standard.

Within four days auditors of Bureau VERITAS were meticulously checking at the enterprise the availability of necessary documentation, compliance with current legislation and with standards ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018; they had enough time in order to be persuaded that these international management standards, implemented at «KARPATNAFTOCHIM» LTD, are duly acting, are being maintained and constantly improved.

Vasyl TKACHUK