FIS has updated its Integrated Management Standard (IMS) as part of a comprehensive new Organisational Capability Toolkit, to help businesses in the construction industry streamline their operations, enhance their organisational capability, and comply with the latest Building Regulations.
Recent updates to the Building Regulations now require businesses to demonstrate their organisational capability, ensuring that all team members are competent and supported by effective process controls. While managing foreseeable risks has always been a legal obligation, this heightened focus from clients and Building Control officers now demands clearer evidence that companies’ processes meet required standards.
The FIS Integrated Management Standard (IMS), which forms part of the FIS Organisational Capability Toolkit, will help companies implement tried and proven methods of streamlining their company for the benefit of their business and its stakeholders. It will help to link and contextualise the wealth of information that FIS members have available to support compliant business management and how they can use their membership to support claims of organisational capability.
The standard has had substantial chapters introduced to address:
- Competence management
- Contract management
- Information management
This IMS sits as a central resource to help align and control resources. It provides a framework for implementing risk management systems (supported by the FIS Product, Process, People Quality Framework) that will help organisations to meet statutory and legislative requirements.
Speaking about the updated IMS, Ashraf Ali, Compliance Director at FIS member Collins Construction said:
Contractors are operating in an environment where clients, regulators and dutyholders expect a far higher level of assurance around competence, management systems and organisational capability than ever before.
The revised FIS Integrated Management Standard is a timely and valuable update that helps contractors like Collins implement practical, and more importantly, proportionate systems that not only support compliance, but also demonstrate the professionalism and consistency required to secure and deliver work in today’s market.
The fact that this has been developed through collaboration across the sector is particularly positive. Shared standards such as this help raise the bar for the whole industry and support the finishes and interiors community in responding to the challenges of regulatory change, increased scrutiny, and higher client expectations
The FIS Integrated Management Standard can be downloaded at https://www.thefis.org/membership-hub/publications/business-management/integrated-management-system/
The Organisational Capability Toolkit is available at https://www.thefis.org/knowledge-hub/product-process-people/
For further information or for any questions please contact FIS at info@thefis.org or call 0121 707 0077.