Trade Verify (Compliance Scheme)
Your brand's reputation and success depends on the safety of your products, regardless of where you are in the supply chain.
Your supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link: Our safety and quality services can help you minimise your risk while helping to ensure that your suppliers have systems in place that are robust and in line with the values and principles of your organisation.
We can help you: protect your brand, image and reputation. Our safety and quality assessors help to identify, assess and control your risks and confirm that your management systems support your business. We verify and certify the compliance of your management systems against appropriate standards for your business.
Trade Verify is aimed at business and client legislation requirements, where your credibility and reputation are at stake.
We work to approved codes of practice and our aim is to ensure that the supply chain functions as intended for both consumers and legitimate trade personnel.
We achieve this by:
• Promoting and protecting both business and contractor interests.
• Providing consumers with reliable ways of finding businesses they can trust.
• Offering help and advice if things go wrong.
• Enabling local businesses to demonstrate that they have signed up to national standards.
• Enabling contractors to demonstrate competency, legislation compliance and excellence.
Trade Verify reviews documents held by contractors and are continually monitored by expert safety personnel.
We conduct inspections and auditing services as required.
It also empowers consumers to make informed choices when buying goods, drive-up business standards and boost customer confidence.
This service provides:
• A comprehensive initial compliance assessment
• Contractor vetting of all necessary documentation
• Determining proof of the company’s financial soundness and that it has adequate public liability insurance
• Compliance with the laws on health, safety and waste disposal issues
• Due diligence search of competency claimed and of operational procedures
• On-site assessments to check the technical competence in their particular business
• Development of strong links with legislative bodies
• Members-only use of a central database of approved vetted contractors
• Supplying members with we visit statistics
• Practical training and on-going mentoring
• A consultancy service that authorities can visit for compliance authentication
• Marketing and promotional material
• Distribution of a quarterly newsletter to all members and partners
• Sending an annual satisfaction form to all members
• Annual free training seminars
• Membership of a user group with a full say in future decisions concerning the scheme
• A standard complaints procedure and log offered to all members
• A bespoke civil/criminal training session offered to all members