Restart your business with BV

Bureau Veritas is on hand to support business resumption with appropriate health and safety conditions across all sectors. The company has developed a suite of solutions to support companies of all sizes as they restart business activity.

Bureau Veritas is a prominent provider in testing, inspection and certification. Created in 1828, the group has more than 78 000 employees located in more than 1 500 offices and laboratories around the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.

Didier Michaud-Daniel, CEO, comments that the company’s role as an expert, independent third party is critical to creating the conditions for trust during the global restart period following the pandemic.

He says, “Bureau Veritas is committed to deploying all efforts throughout the world to help its clients protect the health and safety of employees and customers. Our geographical presence in 140 countries and unrivalled experience in certification processes are considerable assets as they enable us to provide companies, public authorities and society as a whole with our services and our in-depth knowledge of local specificities and regulations.”

Restart Your Business with BV has been developed in collaboration with a range of experts and stakeholders to support companies and government recommence operations with the legislated health protocols and sanitary conditions in place.

- Ensure that health, safety, and hygiene procedures put in place for the resumption of activity meet local and international regulations, as well as recognised best practices

- Confirm that the procedures defined are relevant to the specific needs of the company’s area of business, and that they are effectively implemented

- Deliver a certification or conformity label representing its role as a trustworthy independent third party.

This digital platform offers a suite of solutions enhanced by a digital ecosystem, designed to address the risks specific to all places where people live and work, from construction sites and factories to offices, hospitality, restaurants, shops and public facilities.

The ecosystem includes operational assistance tools for companies who want to reassure stakeholders of their compliance with regulations to ensure their health and safety are safeguarded.

Leveraging on its expertise in certification processes and management of health, safety and hygiene risks, Bureau Veritas is committed to supporting economic recovery and robust business practices.

A Certificate of Compliance and a Site Label Sticker complete with QR code and validity date, both valid for a six-month period, will be issued acknowledging regulatory compliance.

Sal Govender, vice-president for Bureau Veritas Southern Africa, commented, “We are here to support our valued customers resume their business operations in a safe manner, with the health and safety protection of their employees and clients being our top priority.

“Using industry leading local and global expertise, we will conduct independent risk assessments and audits, putting the requisite health, safety, and hygiene steps in place to ensure their business is compliant with local and international regulations. We remain committed to the construction, mining and commodities, manufacturing, healthcare (pharmaceutical), buildings and infrastructure, agriculture, food, oil and gas, marine, power and utilities sectors. We can assure our stakeholders the successful resumption of their business is of crucial importance to us as a trusted partner, working together to create a safer and more sustainable environment.”

The head office for Bureau Veritas Southern Africa is based in Johannesburg; with branches in Cape Town, Centurion, Durban, and Pretoria; and laboratories in Cape Town, Centurion, Durban, Johannesburg and Richards Bay. •