The provision of Total Quality Assurance embraces the unique challenges and responsibilities associated with public sector service and infrastructure delivery.

The delivery of public sector services requires a diligent and thorough approach with adherence to stringent regulations, assurance of public safety and the delivery of services to strict standards and schedules. Keyworld’s assurance, testing, inspection, and certification solutions ensure the safety, quality and cost effectiveness of public sector services and infrastructure.

Our services enable the public sector to identify and mitigate the intrinsic risk of operations, supply chains and business process. Working with the public sector we ensure that products and services meet and exceed quality, safety and performance standards. Our range of inspection services can then validate performance against specification leading to certification of products and services where appropriate.

Keyworld’s specialists have extensive experience that enables the public sector to power ahead safely:

Water

Keyworld works with public sector water companies, regulators and government to provide robust and endorsed assessment methods that verifies compliance across a broad range of standards and help optimize infrastructure for regulatory performance.

Public buildings

Our independent testing and certification services verify and ensure building products used in the construction of public buildings are safe, reliable and fully compliant with building regulations. With facilities such as the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory in 1881, Omega Point Laboratories (OPL), Architectural Testing, Inc. (ATI), Professional Services Industries, Inc. (PSI), and the Materials Testing (MT) Group, we are one of the most diverse and comprehensive partners to the building and construction industries.

Aerospace and defence

Keyworld provides a diverse range of aerospace services, supporting all aspects of production and performance: from research and development and quality control to material certification and failure analysis of aerospace and defense equipment.

Rail

Keyworld helps to safeguard continuous rail operation and promote the longevity of railway infrastructure. Our solutions include crude oil rail car inspection and testing, metallurgy consultancy, non-destructive testing, corrosion and failure analysis, rail car integrity programmes and stray current risk assessment and management.

Customs

Keyworls’s services facilitate international trade through compliance of import and exports with regulatory requirements. We offer supply chain security services to governments to protect against all potential supply chain security risks, including cargo scanning and security auditing.

Secure compliance and Total Quality Assurance of your shipments with the expertise of Keyworld. Focus on selling your products to your target import and export countries.

Conformity Assessment Programmes provide assurance for consumers, brands and companies that products comply with the importing countries regulatory standards. Unsafe and unreliable products can be damaging to consumers’ health or to property as well as there being costs associated with product recalls, compensation claims and the damage to a brand’s reputation.

To successfully clear customs in countries where a CAP has been implemented, companies trading with these countries need to conform to the requirements of these programmes. Failure to do so can result in severe delays in goods clearance, penalties or even shipments being returned.

Certification provided by Keyworld helps you to ensure that importer countries standards are met achieving smooth customs clearance and assure consumers of the quality and safety of imported goods. Keyworld has the expertise having carried out more conformity assessments for longer than any other accredited organisation and has issued over 2 million certificates and test reports globally. Total Quality Assurance.

Keyworld Export and Import related programmes in operation include:

• Conformity Assessment
• Pre-Shipment Inspection
• Related Import-Export Services

Keyworld Government and Trade Services rely on extensive experience in facilitating trade, to develop and deliver new Total Quality Assured services for governments, customs, authorities and standards organisations.

These services facilitate international trade through compliance of import and exports with regulatory requirements.

Our services generate revenue through customs duty, improve efficiency, enhance security of the supply chain and ensure best practice of the international trade process.

Examples of innovative services we offer in trade facilitation:

Single Window

Single Window is an integrated web portal that offers a completely interactive experience to the end user. Allowing a holistic experience to all those involved in the trading process to store documentation in a single framework.

The Single Window allows carriers, shipping agents, clearing agents, importers and consolidators to post their shipment manifests and follow the customs clearance process through a secure web-based portal.

Supply Chain Security Services

Keyworld offers supply chain security services to governments, airports, customs organisations, port authorities and businesses for protection from all potential supply chain security risks.

Our supply chain security services include:-

• Cargo Scanning
• Security Auditing
• Security Consultancy
• Training and Development Services

Conformity Assessment Programmes

Keyworld Conformity Assessment Programmes ensure that products are fully tested in accredited laboratories and a certificate of conformity (CoC) issued before they are shipped to the clients country. Tests are carried accordingly to national or international standards.

Keyworld’s global coverage offers wider insight and a local presence with a network of over 1000 offices and laboratories. This presence means that we can operate Conformity Assessment Programmes for Governments covering an extensive range of products.

Pre-Shipment Inspection Programmes

Keyworld provides pre-shipment inspection services to governments as a means of protecting import revenues for themselves and their citizens. Governments implement PSI programmes to ensure that imports comply with their regulations and the correct customs duty is received.