Staffordshire ISO Consultant Andy Adams
ISO Consultant Andy Adams from Quality Systems Consultancy Stafford
ISO Consultants in Staffordshire
Quality Systems Consultancy has been helping Staffordshire businesses achieve and keep ISO certification since 2006. We are based at Towers Business Park in Rugeley, with over 30 years of hands-on experience behind us — and we come to your site.
We work most often with warehousing and distribution operators, engineering firms, contractors, recycling and waste businesses, and transport and logistics companies across the county. Most come to us for the same reason: a customer, a tender or a framework has told them they need ISO 9001, ISO 14001 or ISO 45001, and they need it done properly rather than quickly.
Transitions are underway. ISO 14001:2026 was published on 15 April 2026 and ISO 9001:2026 is due in September 2026, each with a three-year transition window. Our guide to the ISO 14001:2026 and ISO 9001:2026 transitions explains what has changed and what your auditor will look for.
ISO Certification – our 3 step process to get you certified and compliant
Step 1: Analysis
We visit you and review what you already have. Most businesses are further along than they think — you are already doing much of what the standard asks, just without the evidence trail. We identify the genuine gaps and tell you honestly how big the job is before you commit.
Step 2: Implementation
We build the management system around how your business actually operates, not around a template. Where you have working procedures, we keep them. The aim is a system your team will still be using in three years, not a folder opened the week before an audit.
Step 3: ISO Certification
We prepare you for assessment by a UKAS-accredited certification body, and we are there through the audit. Afterwards we can stay on for surveillance audits and recertification — most of our clients do, which is the part of this business that tells you the most.
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Why Staffordshire businesses choose Quality Systems Consultancy
- A named consultant. You deal with the same person throughout. Most of our clients deal with Andy Adams directly.
- Twenty years in Staffordshire. Quality Systems Consultancy Limited has traded continuously since 2006 — company number 05929171, if you want to check.
- Plain English. The standards are written in a peculiar dialect. Translating it is our job, not yours.
- An honest answer on scope. If you do not need certification, or need less than you have been told, we will say so.
A free, no-obligation one-hour consultation, on your site. We will tell you where you stand, what is genuinely involved and what it will cost.
The Staffordshire sectors we know best
ISO certification looks different in a distribution centre than it does on a construction site. These are the sectors where most of our work sits, and what certification actually turns on in each.
Warehousing and distribution
The distribution parks along the M6 and A38 corridors have made this one of the county’s biggest employers — and one where certification is increasingly a condition of holding a contract rather than a nice-to-have. Retail and third-party logistics customers routinely require ISO 9001 before they will place volume. ISO 45001 matters here more than in most sectors: materials handling equipment, racking inspection, working at height and vehicle–pedestrian segregation are where the real risk sits, and where auditors look first.
Engineering
Staffordshire engineering firms are usually certifying to stay in a supply chain. If you supply into automotive, aerospace, rail or defence tiers, ISO 9001 is the entry ticket — and your customer’s audit will be more demanding than the certification body’s. We build systems that survive both: traceability, calibration, non-conformance handling and supplier control that stand up when a customer walks the floor.
Construction and contracting
For contractors, ISO 45001 is the one that wins work. Principal contractor pre-qualification questionnaires and framework applications ask for it directly, and increasingly ask for the evidence behind it rather than the certificate alone. ISO 14001 follows close behind, driven by site waste management and environmental conditions on planning consents. We work with the way sites actually run rather than imposing office procedures on them.
Recycling and waste
This sector carries the heaviest environmental scrutiny of any we work in. ISO 14001 sits alongside permit conditions, duty of care obligations and regulator expectations, and a well-built environmental management system makes all three easier to evidence. It is also where the new ISO 14001:2026 requirements on life cycle perspective and supply chain control will bite hardest.
Transport and logistics
Driver safety, fatigue management, vehicle maintenance and subcontractor control are where ISO 45001 earns its keep. ISO 14001 is increasingly requested by customers reporting on their own supply chain emissions, and ISO 9001 is frequently the difference between being on a tender list and not.
Staffordshire businesses we have certified
We would rather name clients than make claims. Businesses we have taken through certification in and around the county include:
- Corlyn Calibration Limited, Leek — test and measurement equipment calibration, certified to ISO 9001 in August 2026.
- Stafford Industrial Supplies, Stafford — industrial safety products, certified to ISO 9001:2015.
- Caem UK — retail shelving and display systems manufacturing, certified to ISO 9001:2015.
- Nationwide Lifts — 24-hour emergency lift services, certified with our support.
- Steel Processing (Midlands) Limited, Burntwood — certified to ISO 45001:2018.
We are happy to put you in touch with clients in your own sector before you commit to anything. Just ask.
Where we cover
We are in Rugeley, which puts most of the county within a comfortable drive. We regularly work in Stafford, Cannock, Lichfield, Burntwood, Tamworth, Burton upon Trent, Uttoxeter, Leek, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and across the wider West Midlands.
Being local is not a marketing line. ISO consultancy done remotely produces documentation that describes a business nobody has seen. We visit your site, walk your processes and talk to the people who actually do the work — which is also, incidentally, what makes an audit go smoothly.
We have guided Staffordshire businesses through every revision of these standards since 2006.
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