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Quality Assurance
As the leading supplier of industrial, food, medical and special gases in Ireland, as well as associated equipment and services, we aim to ensure the highest levels of quality in everything we do.
BOC aims to continuously improve the quality of its products, services and customer experience. At the same time we strive to maintain a high level of safety and environmental protection.
For these reasons we have introduced an Integrated Management System covering all elements of Quality, Safety, Health and Environmental processes and procedures in order to provide effective and efficient control of all our business activities. As part of a global group of companies, the same systems are in use throughout the Linde Gas Group worldwide, and their deployment helps us to achieve our SHEQ policy.
The Integrated Management System has been developed to ensure compliance with all legal, contracted and elected SHEQ management system elements including the Quality Management System standard ISO9001:2000.
BOC's Quality Management System is audited by the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) with two visits each year allowing us to confirm the robustness of our systems. ISO9001 certificates are here [insert link]. Multi-site certificates of approval cover our gas manufacturing, packaging and distribution activities as well as our front line Customer Service Centres.
Gases used in the food industry for consumption (e.g. beverage carbonation), packaging (e.g. bread/meat etc) and ripening (e.g. controlled atmospheres for fruit and vegetables) have to be approved under EU law and are given E numbers. The EU also sets minimum purity criteria. All of these requirements (and more from other organisations) are contained within the Integrated Management System.
To ensure that where medical gases are manufactured and supplied for patient use, the principles of Good manufacturing Practice (GMP) specified in the EC Directive 2003/94/EC laying down the Principles and Guidelines of Good Manufacturing Practice for Human Medicines have also been incorporated into the Integrated Management System.
Our Special Products range of gases includes those used for high purity, instrumentation and calibration applications which require certificates of analysis. These products are analysed by our own calibration laboratories which are accredited to ISO17025:2005 by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
