Damen Shiprepair Brest Gets ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Damen Shiprepair Brest has received certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance for aligning its quality and safety management systems with internationally recognized standards.

A certificate of approval for the ISO 9001:2008, management standards was presented by LRQA France at the shipyard premises on 26 November 2013.

Damen Brest’s Managing Director Jos Goris comments: “We are proud to be awarded with the certificate, in particular since we started this process 11 months ago and only a couple of months after the ship repair activities started in second quarter of 2012. Damen Shiprepair Brest passed the 5 day audit without any non-conformity.”

Mr. Goris continues: “By adhering to these globally-recognized best practices, we are positioning Damen Shiprepair Brest as a professional and well organized ship repair facility with a high management focus on Safety, Quality, Reliability and Transparency. We are convinced that our valued customers will note the difference!”

“Our next step will be to become ISO 14001 certified, but we will first give our staff some ‘recovery’ time from the audit for ISO 9001:2008. We have already started implementing several environmental procedures and it is our aim to further improve our environmental footprint in the years to come”, adds Mr Goris.

Damen Shiprepair Brest shipyard offers a broad range of services for any vessel type, including LNG tankers, oil tankers, semi-submersibles, shuttle tankers, FPSO’s, offshore construction vessels, jack-up rigs, RoRo vessels and ferries. The highly skilled workforce is particularly well-known for its LNG tanker expertise.

[mappress]

LNG World News Staff, December 04, 2013; Image: Damen