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SQAS (Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability)

Safety and quality for transport and logistics companies as well as tank clean station through the SQAS system

Huge quantities of hazardous goods are transported each day. In this context, it is necessary to ensure that their storage, transport and transshipment are carried out safely and in a way that maintains quality.

To continuously reduce the risks for humans and the environment, SQAS has been created as an holistic monitoring tool for the uniform performance assessment and control of transport companies. After our assessment of your company, you can demonstrate the quality of your service to your customers with the SQAS seal.

Our audit according to SQAS

In the early 1990s, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) developed a variety of systems under the Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability, or SQAS in short. These standardized assessment procedures for logistics service providers in the area of hazardous goods are designed to improve safety during the transport, storage and handling of chemicals. Each of the different systems is tied to a particular mode of transport or logistics service.
The Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability offers five specific modules:
  • Transport services
  • Rail operators
  • Tank cleaning stations
  • Warehouses
  • Chemical distributors
Each module has a standardized SQAS questionnaire for the assessment of the respective safety, health, environmental and quality processes.
The audit goes far beyond the requirements of quality management according to ISO 9001 and includes compliance with the legal regulations and components of the environmental management system according to ISO 14001.
Procedure of your audit according to SQAS
  1. Project Meeting
    Clarification of open questions and definition of next steps, initial assessment and creation of a schedule for the system assessment
  2. On-site audit
    Assessment according to the SQAS guidelines and questionnaire
  3. Audit report and assessment
    Evaluation of the results, possibly with a presentation of potential optimizations, report for the CEFIC-SQAS database
  4. Assessment and SQAS seal
    No certificate is issued after the SQAS assessment; you will, however, receive the certification logo from the SQAS database; the assessment results are available online
  5. Recertification
    Repeat assessment after three years at the latest
Change in assessment from 01/01/2022 onwards
The Chemical Industry Council is committed to CO2 neutrality. As of 01/01/2022, therefore, the CO2 footprint is also included in the SQAS assessments. If you fail to fulfill the requirements, you won’t be awarded any points in the assessment.
Productsheet SQAS
Productsheet for SQAS

The reliable and neutral partner for your SQAS assessment

We have the necessary accreditation and experience to competently audit your company according to SQAS. We accompany you through the entire process: from the acceptance of the order, to the audit and the forwarding of the report to the SQAS database, to the repeat assessment.
With more than 200 accreditations in our portfolio worldwide, we can support you with additional certifications without major effort. Take advantage of existing synergies, for example: as SQAS already includes parts of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, a combination of the management systems is expedient and useful here.