OHSAS 18001 / ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety)

The safety of our employees always comes first, and we aim at conducting our business in compliance with responsible social and safety policies.

In the UK, for example, national management requests voluntary audit of sites every three months in some laboratories to maintain high safety standards. Eurofins employs over 50 professionals who perform internal audits and also on behalf of national laboratory accreditation bodies.

Eurofins operates several laboratories that have opted for voluntary accreditation according to OSHAS 18001, a standard for occupational health and safety and/or ISO 45001, an ISO standard for management systems of occupational health and safety. For example, some laboratories in France and Ireland have been accredited according to OSHAS 18001 to reflect their commitment to workers’ health and safety.

By the end of 2019, more than 20 laboratories in the Eurofins network with ca. 1,000 FTEs (or ca. 2% of total FTEs) were operating under ISO 45001 / OHSAS 18001 accreditation.

In Eurofins’ environment testing laboratories in France, for example, 11 of Eurofins laboratories hold HSE (Health Safety & Environment) certification. These laboratories hold one or several of the following certifications: ISO 45001 (International Standard for occupational health and safety), OHSAS 18001 (British Standard for occupational health and safety), MASE (HSE management system) and ISO 14001 (environmental management international standard).

In addition to regular statutory audits by accreditation bodies as well as announced internal audits, Eurofins performed unannounced audits on over 5% of its food testing laboratories in Europe. With this additional layer of quality assurance Eurofins believes it is at the forefront of quality assurance practices in the laboratory testing industry serving similar end markets.