RIOS EHMS Consulting

Understanding the RIOS EHMS Standard

RIOS or Recycling Industry Operating Standard refers to the standard of recycling industry for environment, quality, and health and safety management systems. RIOS EHMS provides an excellent framework for the recyclers of scrap (irrespective of their size and scrap materials they recycle and this includes electronic scrap as well) to improve their quality, environment, health & safety management systems performance and bottom line.

RIOS covers key operational and continual improvement elements that also exist in ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO 14001 without technical language and redundancies. RIOS renders a powerful framework for an integrated and comprehensive management system to drive continual improvement in the overall system thereby ensuring superior efficiency throughout the operations.

Why Your Organization Needs an RIOS EHMS Standards Certification?

Scrap recyclers used only generic management system standards for environment, quality, and health and safety management before RIOS came into existence. It was, however, quite difficult to use several standards that weren’t designed for recycling industry in particular. Realizing the need for designing a standard for efficient management of environment, quality, and health and safety management systems, ISRI introduced RIOS standard. RIOS is designed particularly for the scrap recyclers of all sizes and scrap materials including electronics, metal, paper, and so forth. With RIOS EHMS in place, therefore, your organization can ensure continual improvement in environment, quality, and health and safety management systems.

RIOS EHMS Certification Requirements

Here are few of the requirements that must be met by a recycling firm to be able to obtain RIOS EHMS:

• Attain RIOS membership
• Design and implement a RIOS EHMS
• Operate RIOS EHMS through at least one “plan, do, check and act” cycle to gather adequate records of required activities to render the auditing team capable of checking and confirming your RIOS conformance
• Contact ANAB for initial certification audit

Benefits of getting RIOS EHMS certified

RIOS is beneficial for scrap operations at the bottom line, where it’s needed the most and does really count. Benefits of RIOS implementation may vary across firms, however, RIOS will generally help you in:

• Increasing productivity
• Boosting efficiency
• Boosting profitability
• Ensuring environmental compliance
• Improving health and safety practices
• Monitoring and improving quality of products
• Reducing environmental impact, risks and costs
• Ensuring continual improvement in your operations
• Reducing risks and costs associated with health and safety
• Enhancing customer satisfaction and confidence in your offerings
• Improving relations with your legislators, regulators, and neighbors
• Empowering and motivating your employees to work towards the common goals of the organization

To know more about RIOS EHMS, its requirements, benefits and training needs, feel free to call the experts at Glenview Group.