Achilles UVDB (Utility Vendor Database) is a pre-qualification scheme that is designed to ensure accountability and ethical considerations throughout the utility sector within the UK. It connects businesses with established organisations and mitigates risks by ensuring high standards of compliance throughout. Companies will need to undergo an Achilles UVDB audit to increase its reputation and industry opportunities.
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Benefits of Passing an Achilles UVDB Audit
Passing a UVDB audit comes with a vast range of benefits, and it’s something that any business should put all of its effort in to achieve.
These benefits will include:
- You can find areas of improvement for your business
- You can be more competitive within the industry
- You can increase your credibility and reputation
- You can add overall value to your business
- You can impress buyers by achieving the minimum audit score
Of course, the better your UVDB audit, the more likely you are to reap the benefits. If you have never undergone an Audit before, you must work with a consultancy firm to help guide you through the process and increase your chances of success.
Consequences of Failing
However, while there are many benefits to passing an Achilles UVDB audit, there are also consequences if you fail. Nobody wants to fail tests, exams, or assessments of any kind, and the same goes for a UVDB audit. If you do fail your audit, there are several consequences you may encounter.
Damage to Contracts
Companies that fail their audit could find that their existing contracts are altered or cancelled altogether. For smaller enterprises, this can be a death-knell that makes it difficult for them to recover from. It’s possible you will miss out on existing and future contracts.
Damaged Brand Reputation
As the Achilles accreditation scheme is so widely recognised and respected throughout a range of industries, failure to pass can cause severe damage to your brand reputation. Failure demonstrates a lack of preparation and understanding of what is expected of you, and this is not something that organisations want to see when considering collaboration and trying to avoid risk.
Reduced profits and growth
Through damaged contracts and a damaged reputation, there is a risk that you will not experience the growth and profits you expected. This can impact your business plan for the coming year and may require you to reevaluate your next steps.
The Importance of Passing With Full Marks
Passing with full marks in your UVDB audit may sound complicated, but as long as you follow the guidelines and ensure you meet all requirements in every category, you should not have any issues in passing your audit with full marks.
The importance of doing is not something that you can neglect to consider, either. While passing with decent marks is acceptable, passing with the highest possible score will give your business the opportunity to work with the established organisations that you want. The higher your marks, the more appealing your enterprise will be when reaching out to the vast network of utility firms.
What Pressures Can You Expect?
It is natural to feel pressure when expecting your audit. You are concerned about your chances of passing with an acceptable score. You are worried about the potential problems that could come from failing your assessment. While you may not think so, pressure, and even stress, are good things to experience when awaiting an Achilles UVDB Audit.
Such pressures show that you care about the results. It also means that you will pay extra-close attention to specific aspects of your business that you feel may need work. As the UVDB Audit involves assessments on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Quality Management, Health and Safety and Environment factors, it’s vital to check all of these in the days, or even weeks, leading up to your audit thoroughly.
How Can JVR Consultants Help?
As one of the most accomplished compliance advisory consultancies in the UK, JVR Consultancy can help your business pass its UVDB audit with flying colours. We have a reputation of developing, implementing, and supporting top quality and fully integrated Management Systems for our clients. We want to ensure that you achieve the accreditation that will lead to growth, trust, and collaboration opportunities that you require.
JVR Consultancy is one of the most accomplished compliance advisory consultancies in the UK with a reputation of developing, implementing, and supporting top quality, fully integrated Management Systems for our clients. Because of this, we can help your business to pass your audit. We are here to support you and achieve top marks in every category. To take the first steps on your UVDB audit, contact us to learn more about how our consultants can help your business excel.
Frequently Asked Questions from our Customers
Yes we can, we can assist you with any of the accreditation featured on our website. We have a 100% record of securing any of the accreditation in the first audit for all our customers for the last 13 years.
More to the point, I ask clients how quickly can you start. We can have a consultant working on your accreditation within the hour if you are ready. The only things that take time are the audit dates, these are issued to the client by the certification body so it is out of our control.
This depends on how much the client has in place already. The more they have, the easier it becomes to work on their accreditation. The gap analysis that we carry out is free of charge and afterwards will give you an exact fixed price.
The fixed price will include the following –
- Carry out all the work ( creating documents & processes tailored to your company )
- Attend the audit ( as your expert consultant ) or make the desktop submission.
- Make any corrections that the auditor may highlight to ensure that you obtain your accreditation the first audit.
Initially, we need to talk to you to carry out the free gap analysis. Afterwards, we would require you to forward all the relevant documents. After that, we can complete the work with the minimum of your input, leaving you to concentrate on doing what you do best for the company.
Yes! Let us Manage your Accreditations with Ongoing Support and Maintenance. With us managing your accreditations, your team can then focus on business growth and development. This gives you peace of mind knowing your compliance is being routinely managed by professionals. Ongoing support and maintenance avoids panic in your business when suddenly faced with an audit, knowing at all times you are well prepared.
Achieve Accreditation and Compliance with JVR
JVR Consultancy was formed in the year 2008 and their head office is based in Windsor and Maidenhead. We noticed that there was a gap in the market, for companies who work in the construction, rail, utilities, oil and gas sector who were not fully supported in the way that they could be when it came to industry compliance and certification. That is why our highly experienced team of compliance consultants can serve these sectors by providing over 135 years of combined experience with all compliance needs. In short, you won’t find anyone else who cares as much, or who tries as hard as we do.
Speak with one of our experienced consultants. At JVR, we know that time is precious, and you want the answers to your questions quickly, especially during an audit!. Once we speak with you for the first time over the phone, we need around 10 minutes to fully evaluate which accreditation you need support with and a brief introduction into you and your company.
Managing Director at JVR Consultancy, Steven Sandhu, is passionate and committed to supporting his clients within their chosen Compliance accreditation. With over 15 years of experience across multiple compliance industries, Steven prides himself on delivering 100% accreditation success for his clients, mixed with a passion for providing excellence by understanding the goals and the needs of his clients’ businesses. All this, combined with his strong breadth of skills and knowledge by routinely researching industry requirements changes and introducing new regulated requirements
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