Cost effective technical support available to businesses of all sizes
How we can help
General consultancy advice
IQS can help with:
Product compliance advice. Information responses to specific issues. Dealing with Trading Standards queries. Advice on EU/UK regulations and standards that affect individual product types.
Providing training workshops and talks.
A phone call or a zoom meeting can easily deal with immediate questions and help.
Understanding regulations and standards
There are laws, directives and UK regulations that apply to the majority of products and there are legal requirements that are product specific; suppliers need to be conversant with both. IQS provides support for companies to understand those requirements and practical steps that can be taken to demonstrate compliance.
Technical protocols and policies
IQS can help with:
Quality management policies that are tailored to individual clients. Supplier approval protocols. Product appraisals, detailing risk assessment, testing requirements, packaging warnings, claims substantiation and assembly checks.
In addition, the development of quality and technical procedures including quality testing and inspection standards, sealing processes, supplier manuals and auditing standards. We are not a testing laboratory but can often establish the most cost effective compliance and testing options by understanding the materials used in the products and optimising the data available in the supply chain. IQS help to ensure that any testing undertaken is the most appropriate and cost effective.
Product approval support
IQS can work on product ranges and our Technical Managers have all worked for blue chip retailers and industry and are therefore very well placed to ensure that the standards your products meet will comply with your most demanding customers.
IQS can collate details needed for technical files and due diligence support.
Factory and supply chain support
Our technical managers all have skills in supplier and factory auditing, having been Lead auditor trained. They understand the needs and requirements of technical and ethical audit programs.
We understand the need for carefully managing your supply factories and have some simple first steps approaches.
IQS have experience of most retailers’ audit styles and requirements and can help suppliers understand the practical approach required to meeting them.
Sustainability
It is important that any claims made for sustainability or special ethical features are underpinned by suitable details of verification. We can help you understand the outlines and requirements of certain certification schemes.
Our quality and technical management advice and support is tailored to the needs of our clients and we enjoy working with our interesting and varied client base, as well as taking on new clients projects and needs.
We pride ourselves on reducing the impact of product legislation on companies by being able to translate technical information and requirements into simplified practical steps that can be easily understood and hence easily implemented.
IQS work with many companies that need cost effective technical support and effective compliance advice, so that they can provide additional resources to their internal teams or particular projects.
Our client base includes large global companies, blue chip retailers, web-based retailers, charities, trade associations as well as the smaller entrepreneurial businesses.
For the smaller companies that are rapidly expanding their businesses, using IQS provides a fast track approach to understanding and meeting their legal requirements when extending their product ranges. This will enable them to meet both client and Trading Standards expectations. Working as an outsourced technical department we can bring a multitude of expertise and skills to the job in hand.
For new companies trying to supply the larger retailers; we understand the complexity of their requirements and are able to help make that transition easier.
IQS can also help train internal staff or cover recruitment gaps as well as provide technical consultancy, for short and long term projects.