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Young company creates environment for success

A North East health & safety consultancy company has become one of less than forty in the country to hold a top accreditation for their services.

Cirrus Environmental Solutions Ltd, based in Sunderland, have been awarded the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and Environment Agency’s MCerts accreditation. This allows them to provide services which are recognised as meeting top-level performance requirements. The company now aims to compete with the major providers of emission monitoring services throughout the UK and Europe. Stuart Hovvels, a director at Cirrus, said: “This is an important development for us, as it means that we can now carry out work for large and multi-national companies who require UKAS accreditation when choosing suppliers.”

“More and more clients are stipulating the use of accredited companies, whether as a legal requirement enforced by the Environment Agency or a preferred solution for assuring the quality of a supplier. Being one of less than forty companies in the UK to be UKAS accredited for emission monitoring will better our position in the market to win new business.”

In addition to this achievement, Stack Emission Monitoring Team Leader John Philp is one of around only twenty personnel in the UK to hold a Level 2 MCert qualification with all four Technical Endorsements (advanced qualifications in specific monitoring techniques).

John Philp said: “Gaining the advanced qualifications is obviously delightful to me on a personal and professional level, but I think they stand as testament to the hard work that everyone at Cirrus has delivered, and the outstanding developments that we have made in just two years since the company launched. Gaining UKAS and MCerts accreditation for an organisation after less than three years of trading is a major achievement.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .