Other services

Our unique combination of experience, professional skills and flexibility enables us to offer consultancy within a wide range of the field of chemistry and environment. You are always welcome to contact us with specific tasks.

Below you can read about our services within workplace evaluations (in Danish abbreviated as APV), mapping, life cycle assessment, product screening, health related evaluation of products as well as the possibility for becoming a contract customer at Bureau Veritas HSE.

Workplace evaluations

Bureau Veritas HSE guides and supports companies in their elaboration of the statutory workplace evaluations. A workplace evaluation ‘takes the temperature' of the working environment for as well every single employee as for the company as a unity.

Your advantages by using Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will be able to meet the demands in the existing legislation
• You will avoid orders from the Danish Working Environment Service
• You will not get into the searchlight of the authorities
• You will experience a positive contribution to the working environment from your employees
• You will get a good starting point for improvements of the working environment
• Your company will be considered as a well run and serious supplier

Mapping of your company and your products

All companies use chemicals and chemical products either because they form parts of their products as raw materials or auxiliary constituents in connection with production, maintenance or repair.

A lot of companies can improve their knowledge on substances being used and in which quantities, in a useful and advantageous way. Bureau Veritas HSE offers a systematic going through of your company with focus on the chemicals and products being used.

The mapping can be the basis for substitution of unwanted substances or just a change in the purchase methods or choice of supplier.
 

Advantages by using Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will get a statement in detail, making it possible to give priority to the environmental effort as to substances level
• You will get a detailed knowledge of the application of chemicals in all of your company/in a certain department or for a certain process
• You will, consequently, achieve cost reductions
• You will get a better starting point for dialogues with the authorities
• You will act as a supplier bearing environment in his mind

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Manufacturing of a product demands a lot of choices.

You have the economic choice (which solution is cheapest?), the technical choice (what is the easiest solution?), the design related choice (which solution is the smartest one?), the quality related choice (which solution is the best one?) and, finally, the environmental related choiceone (which solution will be best for the environment? Minor environmental influence?).

A life cycle assessment of a product describes the most important environmental considerations in all of the life cycle of a product, from the extraction/winning of the raw materials through production to application and waste handling. Consequently, the environmental consequences by the choice of raw material or method can best be made on the basis of a life cycle assessment.

Bureau Veritas HSE offers to make a life cycle assessment for your product, for a part of your product, or for a part of the life cycle of the product. Afterwards, you can use the assessment for your choice of production process, kind of material or technology.

Advantages by using Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will acquire useful knowledge which can be applied in product development
• You will get knowledge about the environmental impact of your products in different phases
• You will be able to compare otherwise difficult comparable parameters for several products
• You will get documentation as well in-house as for your the customers, sources of funds and authorities
• You will get a lot of (environmentally conscious) customers preferring ecological purchases
• You will get a better environmental image

Product screening

We offer you and your company to make an evaluation of the products which you buy. A such evaluation can comprehend:

• Environment
• The possibility to use the raw material in ecolabelled products
• Storage conditions
• Transport
• Registration
• Classification
• Health

You will get the evaluations wanted for every single product. These evaluations will be useful in your dialogue on other products etc. with your suppliers as well as in your substitution work, in general.

Advantages by using Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will get an unambiguous evaluation of projected new substances or products before they are introduced in your company
• You will be able to ask the right demands to your supplier
• You will be able to minimise your environmental and working environment impact through the application of the raw materials and the auxiliary constituents with minor environmental impacts
• You will be able to improve your environmental effort through a more active and well considered choice of supplier
• You will get a lot of customers demanding suppliers making an active effort on what concerns environment and working environment

Health related evaluations of products

Do you know the impact of your products on environment and society?

- Every single kind of chemical substances/products has an impact, small or considerable, on human being.

Let Bureau Veritas HSE help you to get the good grasp needed hereof! Even in marketing, you will get the considerable advantage of knowing the exact properties of your product.

Furthermore, you will get demands from the authorities regarding statements of the above-mentioned effects in connection with environmental approvals, statements of environmental impact, interruption of work, spillage and accidents.

You might need a such evaluation in connection with a possible media focus on your substances/products, discussions of "problematic substances" or just a documentation wish for the health related effects of a product. Bureau Veritas HSE offers you an exploratory health related evaluation of your products.

In that connection, we offer to make tests of as follows for the product:

• The biological effect
• The toxic properties
• The possible analysis of the product

You advantages by using Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will get a professional evaluation of the effect of your substances/products on human being
• You will get an adviser who will take care of the contact with the authorities
• You will get an adviser evaluating when the information received will be sufficient
• You will confidently be able to hand over the contact with various laboratories to us if it should be necessary to make further tests or examinations
• You will be able to market a product meeting the demands of existing regulations and rules
• You will be able to obtain permission for discharge/application
• You will get a survey of the impacts of your products on environment

Contract customer

Use Bureau Veritas HSE as sparring partner within the field of chemistry and environment!

Bureau Veritas HSE offers you and your company the possibility to get a status as contract customer. As a contract customer, you will get an agreed, quarterly number of hours. The number of hours will be fixed on the basis of an individual evaluation of your need and this number of hours will currently get adjusted if your need changes.

Your advantages by being contract customer at Bureau Veritas HSE

• You will be ensured that we maintain elaborated material according to existing legislation
• You will be informed on future legislative changes within your field
• You will get a subscription of Briefing, free of charge
• You do not need to spend time for information retrieval
• You have fixed and predictable costs
• You will always have the same adviser as your contact person
• You will be able to provide your customers service with updated documents etc.
• You have a serious and well-skilled consultancy partnerv