The Quality Standard : BS EN ISO 9001 : 2000 Accredited
Celebrating 12 years of the Quality Standard

Stehlin Hostag Ink UK Ltd are celebrating over 10 years accreditation to the BS EN ISO 9001 standard. It was a credit to our team and our management policies that we successfully achieved the standard at our first attempt in 1995. Over the past 12 years we have successfully reviewed, developed, improved and refined our internal systems within all areas to ensure we maintain our position as offering the best quality of products with the best quality of service, Furthermore in February 2001 we successfully achieved the 2000 Standard.

The benefits to our customers:
• Rigorous internal Training Procedures ensuring competence and awareness
• Control & Monitoring of internal processes procedures within each function
• Review of suppliers
• Full Identification and Traceability of our products
• Corrective Action enabling us to eliminate/reduce non-conformity
• Full System Audits ensuring continual compliance to the Standard.

The Environmental Standard : EN ISO 14001 : 2000
“Today’s Environmental protection is our quality of life for tomorrow”

Stehlin Hostag Ink UK Ltd are at the forefront of Environmental Protection and have achieved full ISO14001certification within the UK. Our Process Models which are used within our Quality standard framework have enabled us to achieve much of the environmental standard. Our environmental policy is based on good management practices and is reflected in the ‘principles of environmental protection’ that we have adhered to since 1990.
As a hubergroup company bulk manufacturing of our range of inks occurs at Stehlin + Hostag Lachen in Switzerland and Michael Huber in Munich, both these sites are certified to ISO 14001, and their individual policies are available below.

Health & Safety & Welfare Policy : 18001
We are delighted to announce that at our first attempt, we have attained the OHSAS 18001:1999 specification relating to Health & Safety. This was awarded to us in April this year by Moody International who the only UK Certification body to hold RvA accreditation.
Angela Hayden, HSQ Manager for Stehlin Hostag said “This is not an easy specification to achieve and could not be done without the support from everyone at Stehlin and particular support from David Ward in allowing me the resources and free hand in order to achieve our goal. Special thanks go to the auditors, Paul Hayden, Andy Pike, Molly Bowes, Sue Fowkes and Ian Richardson. We are now all fully qualified auditors in all 3 standards and I have now completed all 3 IRCA (International Register for Certified Auditors) courses (9000, 18000 and 14001) and can qualify for my IRCA licence of which only 22,000 people in the world currently have.
Stehlin Hostag worked towards achieving the specification for many reasons. From an internal perspective, it was important to confirm our commitment to the continual improvement of our systems and the Health, Safety and Welfare of our employees. This is direct reassurance to all the Stehlin team that we are a company committed to our employees’ wellbeing. From a customer perspective, it raises awareness of these ‘internal commitments’ and also reassures them of our ongoing efforts as a business to reduce costs and meet our legislative obligations in connection with the products and services we promote.
As a highly quality minded company, we are still working on achieving the ISO 14001 environmental standard and hope to receive certification before the end of this year.
If you would like any further information regarding our success with the Quality Standard or our progression to the Environmental and Health and Safety standard then please review the policies below or contact our Nottingham Based Quality Manager, Angela Hayden on 0115 9860477 or Angelah@stehlin.co.uk

These will be available shortly in (PDF format).
• Stehlin Hostag’s Quality Policy
• Stehlin Hostag’s Health & Safety Policy
• Stehlin Hostag's Environmental Policy
• EN71 Toy Regulations
• Heavy Metal Contents
• Renewable Raw Materials