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The main aim behind this project of Design & Implementation of Integrated Management System was an exertion to bring three management systems under one roof, based on ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 & BS 18001:2007 guidelines at Ecoil Company. This has been done by analyzing the three standards in detail and by bringing similar requirements among the system as single requirement with addition to other requirements. For example the standards EMS 14001 and OHSAS 18001 has requirements in addition to the basic requirements that are required by all three standards. This similarity helped in integration of the three frameworks. The framework of all the three systems works on the basis of PDCA cycle of continual improvement that is the key to all three standards. This is another reason which has enabled us to combine three systems into ONE Integrated Management System.

IMS provides the framework to the organization in which all the processes, activities are then carried out within the brackets of policies and guidelines towards the Health, Safety, environment & quality. It also helps in positioning the organization as HSE responsible and providing a framework to respond the HSEQ related inquiries of the customers, stockholders and other interested parties. Ecoil, the company is new and number of employees is very less so our team has suggested the suitable timeframe for IMS implementation is six month. The work has been carried out under the guidelines of international standards of ISO9001, ISO14001 and BS18001 systems. First we have conducted Gap analysis, but as the company is new so Gap Analysis did not help us so much. For the ECOIL we have to start the design phase of the systems from the scratch. In the designing phase we have visited the ECOIL plant and study thoroughly in connection with the basic and necessary things need to be improved, hazard identifications and objective setting. Later, series of required steps have been taken; first of all we have reviewed the existing preliminary documents and modified their policy by aligning it with the requirements of IMS. The second main task was to identify the IMS objectives and targets in order to align all the activities. Consequently, HSE Hazards were recognized, objectives related to IMS have been identified with the help of Ecoil Management. We have prepared manuals for Ecoil containing system & operational procedures, designed different forms for record keeping, which was the most time taking activity of this project, delivered HSEQ awareness sessions and competence trainings to the employee.

Now the next step was the pre-assessment audit of the implemented system. As the company needed draft system first due to the scarce resources to avoid any kind of risk which is appreciated approach. So the draft IMS system has been made ready for ECOIL, no doubt they can implement it in shorter possible time, as the foundation of system has been set, the Management understands and vision is clear so implementation on grounds will not take immense time in the presence of proper resource. Ecoil is committed and doing that.

The results of implementing IMS on ground could be seen after ONE year at least in the form of much improvements and systematic running of everything. However, several suggestions could be made to the Ecoil’s management to put their all efforts on the track of continual improvement w.r.t Quality, Health and Safety and Environment in order to achieve Win-Win ambiance.