ISO & Health & Safety Consultants in Bolton

Bolton has one of the deepest engineering and manufacturing bases in Greater Manchester, and more of its firms are finding ISO certification written into tenders and supplier questionnaires every year. If that's what has landed on your desk, we can get you certified in 4-8 months without burying you in paperwork.

What Bolton businesses come to us for

Health & safety consultancy in Bolton

Engineering workshops are where H&S gets real: machinery guarding, PUWER and LOLER checks, isolation procedures, workshop inspections. We act as your competent person, keep risk assessments current, and put together the H&S evidence tenders and main contractors ask for - without wrapping your fitters in paperwork.

Chasing a tender that needs ISO?

A lot of Bolton firms first call us the week a PQQ or tender response asks for certification, and the question is always the same: can we get it in time?

Usually yes, but it depends on two things. First, whether the buyer will accept evidence that you're mid-implementation with a certification body booked - many will, and we can put that letter together. Second, how much of a system you already run informally. A firm with real procedures and no paperwork moves fast. A firm with neither takes longer, and we'll say so at the gap analysis rather than take the fee and hope.

If the deadline genuinely can't be met, we'll tell you on the first call. That's a cheaper answer for both of us than finding out in month four.

Where we work around Bolton

Wingates Industrial Estate and Westhoughton, Lostock, Horwich and Middlebrook, Farnworth, Great Lever and everywhere in between. We're just down the road, so regular on-site days are easy to arrange. See all the areas we cover.

Sectors we see most around Bolton

Precision engineering and machining, technical textiles, aerospace supply chain work, food manufacturing and packaging. The aerospace supply chain is the demanding one - customers there tend to want ISO 9001 as the floor, not the ceiling, and often ask about AS9100 next. We'll be straight with you about where our work ends and a specialist's begins.

Common questions from Bolton firms

Our customer wants 9001 and 45001. Do we do them one at a time? Almost never worth it. Built together as an integrated system, the shared clauses only get written once and you get one audit visit instead of two.

We failed a customer audit. Can you help before we go for certification? Yes, and that's often the better order. Fixing what the audit found usually builds most of the system you'd need anyway.

Who does the work - you or us? We write the system and run the internal audits. Your team keeps doing their jobs and gives us an hour here and there. If a consultant tells you it's zero effort from your side, the system won't survive them leaving.

How it starts

A free 30-minute call, then a fixed quote. Get in touch and tell us what the tender's asking for.