Verification and Regulatory
Assisting in Licencing and Compliance
Regulatory Compliance services in multiple countries
ISQ offers a wide range of regulatory services to help clients to meet their legal obligations as regards quality, environment and people safety, installations and equipment in compliance with the country (Portugal, Brazil, Spain) or EU legislation and applicable directives.
We provide inspection and testing services of materials, components and products, installations and equipment in buildings, installations and industrial equipment for approval/adoption or to assist in industrial and environmental licensing.
We certify people and we carry out chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, occupational exposure and food safety.
These services are performed by qualified/certified technicians with wide experience and supported by a modern and well equipped network of accredited laboratories and further acknowledged skills through accreditation, notification and/or appointment by government bodies.
We provide inspection services in facilities and equipment in buildings, industrial installations and equipment, support for industrial and environmental licensing, metrological verification of equipment, certification of persons in various fields and chemical analysis.
Main areas of operation
NB – Notified Body
The Notified Body is empowered to conduct the assessment of products to be placed on the EU market and also to provide the manufacturer or his authorized representative established within the EU, with an official Assessment Certificate, thus enabling him to apply a certification mark (CE Mark) to the product and issue a declaration of conformity, as legally required
CAB – Conformoty Assessment Body
As a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB), ISQ skills have been formally acknowledged through its accreditation by IPAC – the national entity member and signatory of the Mutual Recognition Agreements of EA (European Cooperation for Accreditation), of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and IAF (International Accreditation Forum).
The results of the compliance assessment provided by ISQ are also recognised or accepted in the remaining countries that have signed these agreements.
Metrological Verification Body
ISQ is qualified and formally designated as metrological verification body by IPQ – Instituto Português da Qualidade – the Portuguese authority for Legal Metrology, member and signatory of the OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) and WELMEC (European Cooperation in Legal Metrology) agreements.
Professional Certification
ISQ is accredited as Personnel Certification Body according to EN ISO/IEC 17024 for certification of welders and welding operators, brazing operators and operators of welding brazing.
Is also Notified Body for approval of permanent joining personnel in the scope of EU PED Directive (97/23/EC Pressure Equipment).
Regulatory
Conformity assessment body designated under Portuguese legislation
Inspection Body for Fuel Facilities at Azores – by Secretaria Regional da Economia dos Açores
Inspection Body for Fuel Facilities – by DGEG (Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia)
Inspection Body for Gas Facilities Networks and Distribution Systems – by DGEG (Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia)
Inspection Body for Lifts and Escalators – by DGEG (Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia)
Recognized Body to certify specialized equipment for the carriage of perishable foodstuffs, whitin the ATP agreement – by IMT (Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes)
Qualified and/or Authorized under Portuguese legislation
Authorized to provide external services of occupational hygiene and safety – by ISHST (Instituto para a Segurança, Higiene e Saúde no Trabalho)
Qualified as general manager of the quality of construction projects – by LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)
Qualified as energetic auditing body and author of rationalization plans and of implementation and progress reports under intensive energy consumption management systems – by ADENE (Agência para a Energia)
Qualified as Auditing Body for energy audits in co-generation facilities – by DGEG (Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia)
Qualified as Examination Body of the energy use conditions and authoress of rationalization plans of the energy consumption for the transport sector – by DGEG (Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia).
50 YEARS SUPPORTING COMPANIES
We act comprehensively throughout the value chain, providing over 250 specialized services, hundreds of technical specialists and the know-how of over 50 years plus operating worldwide, leading significant international projects.
We have a sustained presence in several countries and run our business with multinational partners and consortia and through our affiliated companies on several continents.
What sets us apart
Support licensing and start-up Help in complex processes When cooking, want to make sure that the gas installation is safe. That’s why she’s certified. And when you’re in the office, you want to have confidence that air conditioning is filtered and of good quality. That’s why the air conditioner has to comply with specific rules. And when you go to the restaurant, you want to make sure you consume quality products. That’s why the restaurant has specific certification. The examples are many, from small to large activities, but the truth is that we live in a world with many norms, with regulation. And if this legislation and regulation exists to help us all, it is a fact that sometimes meeting your requirements can be complex, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises. Tests, forms, processes, procedures, bureaucracy, a lot of time spent and sometimes with errors that cost even more, especially when the company’s focus is on advancing its business. That is why we provide the Regulatory Services area, in which we support, in a simplified and transparent way, companies to comply with the standards applicable to them. Let us introduce ourselves
ISQ provides a comprehensive and diverse set of regulatory services that enable its customers to comply with legal obligations on the quality, environment and safety of persons, facilities and equipment, provided for in national, Community and applicable directives.
We provide inspection services in installations and equipment in buildings, in industrial facilities and equipment, support to industrial and environmental licensing, we do metrological verification of equipment, we certify people in various fields and perform chemical analysis.
Inspection services are carried out by inspectors or multidisciplinary teams of certified inspectors, with extensive field experience in Portugal and abroad, supported by a modern and well-equipped network of accredited laboratories.
Let us introduce ourselves
We support our clients in complying with environmental legal obligations laid down in European directives and national and international legislation and regulations.
We have a network of accredited laboratories and a vast team of specialists with specific training in the area of environment, and with proven experience in a multitude of business and industrial realities.
We carry out environmental impact studies, make strategic environmental assessment of plans and programs, and environmental monitoring.
We support our customers in the environmental licensing process.
We carry out analyses on the quality of process waters, natural and human consumption, and gaseous effluents.
We carry out analyses on all types of equipment covered by the RoHS Directive.
We contribute decisively to the efficiency and sustainable development of companies, to the implementation of good environmental practices and to the minimization of problems with impact on the environment.
Services
We support our clients in complying with the legal obligations provided for in national and international legislation and regulations. As a Notified Body for the PED Directive and accredited for the Certification of Persons, we have certified welders and welding operators. We also certify thermoplastic welders. We are a certifying entity recognized by DGEG in the area of gas, issuing professional licenses of gas technician, installer and welder of gas networks, gas appliance mechanic and steel pipe welder.
Services
We support our clients in complying with the legal obligations provided for in national and international legislation and regulations.
As a Sector Inspection Body we carry out technical inspections of elevators, mechanical stairs and conveyor belts.
We inspect electrical installations in buildings as a regional electrical system inspector.
As an inspection body for networks and extensions of distribution and gas installations, recognized by DGGE and accredited by IPAC, we carry out inspections of domestic gas installations and carry out periodic inspections, mandatory by law.
We carry out indoor air quality audits.
In the Noise and Vibration Laboratory, accredited by IPAC, we make sound insulation measurements in buildings.
Services
We support our customers in complying with the legal obligations (certification, inspection and testing) provided for in the European Directives, for which we are notified bodies, such as the Machinery, Elevators, Transport of Cable, Pressure Reservoirs, Transportable Pressure Reservoirs, Transportable Products (ATP).
We qualify welding procedures.
As sector inspection body we carry out technical inspections of elevators, mechanical stairs and conveyor belts; pressure equipment (containers, boilers, pipes); transportable pressure equipment; fuel storage facilities; industrial electrical installations; equipment for the transport of dangerous goods; gas distribution and transport networks; equipment and steel cables.
We contribute decisively to the safety of people, facilities and equipment.
Services
For more than 20 years we have been in the area of security and we are considered a reference entity in the sector. We have participated in all major national works carried out in recent decades and also in some major international projects.
We are recognised by the ACT (Labour Conditions Authority) for the provision of services for the organisation of safety and health services at work.
In the field of shipyard safety, we coordinate safety in project and/or on site, in temporary or mobile shipyards.
We support our clients in complying with legal obligations such as occupational risk assessment, compliance with European directives such as ATEX, Seveso and Machinery, the development of self-protection measures in fire safety and the performance of simulations.
We offer services that help you improve your company’s occupational hygiene and safety conditions by assessing workers’ exposure to physical, chemical, biological and radiant risks.
We carry out inspections of gas installations, electrical installations, water networks, work equipment and recreational and entertainment equipment (beacons and playgrounds).
Services
We support our clients in complying with the legal obligations provided for in national and international legislation and regulations.
We are recognized by IPQ as the Metrological Verification Agency and Metrology Design Service to perform metrological verification operations of storage reservoirs, cisterns, level indicators and appliances in the areas of acoustics, dimensional, automobile, gas, mass, strength, temperature and time.
We have the ability to perform these checks in our laboratories and at the customer’s facilities.
We offer our customers the LABMETRO ONLINE service that allows us to consult at any time the status of calibration, testing, measurement or verification of your equipment and access their certificates and reports in total safety.
Services
WE CREATE THE SYSTEMS TAILORED TO THE SUCCESS OF YOUR COMPANY
Buildings distribution networks inspection
Cathodic protection
Coatings inspection
Condition assessment of equipment and installations in-service
Construction inspection of industrial equipment and installations
Evaluation and monitoring of the quality of electrical energy
In-service inspection in industrial plants
Inspection and reception of materials and equipment
Inspection and repair approval
Inspection and testing of steel cables
Inspection of bridges and viaducts
Inspection of electric equipment
Inspection of HVAC networks and ventilation systems
Inspection of infrastructure and telecommunication towers
Inspection of lifts & equipment and components
Inspection of thermal insulations
Quality assurance and control (QA/QC)
