NCE partners with Bureau Veritas to provide special ‘Cove-Safe’ certification for exporters

Officials of NCE and Bureau Veritas Lanka at the MOU signing 

The NCE has partnered with Bureau Veritas Lanka (Pvt) Ltd to provide ‘Cov-Safe’ certification which has international recognition. 

The NCE being a strong advocate for sustainable and ethical trading practices, which also includes ensuring employee safety of exporting industries, safety of the clients and continuous hygienic practices, is in the view that Sri Lankan companies should be geared with the right tools to protect both their employees and clients, to fight COVID-19. 

The local arm of the internationally recognized Bureau Veritas Group has developed a special certification named ‘Cov-Safe hygiene assessment’ certification to ensure the Sri Lankan companies will beaudited to ensure best practices to fight COVID-19. 

Bureau Veritas Lanka Pvt Ltd certification offers a comprehensive range of global or sector-specific standards, certifications, customized assessments and training services in the quality, health & safety, environment, supply chain and corporate responsibility fields to small, medium and large companies in 140 countries with more than 1400 offices plus 320 laboratories. 

The assessment process is on a four-phase process, where it consists of self assessments, onsite assessments, certification and surveillance assessments.

Bureau Veritas group totally comprises of 78,000 employees and 60 plus Accreditations, which is more than adequately equipped to provide service to any organization.

Some of the benefits include Internationally recognized certification on health and safety measures compliance related to COVID-19, fast certification process, to ensure the reliability of products to be manufactured in COVID-19 safe environments and receiving special guidelines to follow, to ensure work environments are safe and clean, with workforce and clients following proper hygienic practices. 

Cov-Safe hygiene assessment supports the clients to mitigate risk, ensuring compliance, procurement and infrastructure planning and following sanitization measures providing an assurance to all stakeholders. 

Furthermore, this certification will be carrying a message to the foreign buyers that the products have been manufactured in COVID-19 safe environments