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BSI Case Study: Rosti Automotive Limited
Certification: IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001
and OHSAS 18001

Strong today, stronger tomorrow
How BSI is helping Rosti Automotive build a stable platform for international growth“We needed reliable support inbuilding strong, constructive
systems, and I have 100% faith that
BSI can continue to help us achieve
our objectives.”
Mary Atkinson,
Business Systems Engineer,
Rosti Automotive GroupThe business in brief

BSI: the business benefits

Rosti Automotive Limited,
headquartered in the Midlands, isa Tier 1 supplier in the automotive
industry, specialising in plastic
moulded and painted assemblies.
With four manufacturing sites inthe UK, in addition to its Midlands
office, it employs 1,279 people. Its
turnover, currently around £150m,
is projected to increase more than
threefold over the next five years as
the company expands its customer
base overseas. An early adopter ofIATF 16949, Rosti will now makethe migration to ISO 45001, thenew occupational health and safety
standard.

Working with BSI:
• Helps ‘future-proof’ a company• Helps build employee
engagement• Supports strategic development• Provides an important externalresource• Adds value to a businessAutomotive
Quality
ManagementCompany background
Rosti Automotive Limited was initiated in 2016,
with a further rebranding in 2017. It is partof the Nordstjernan group, a family-owned
Swedish investment company. Its core businessof injection moulded and painted assemblies iscarried out at three UK manufacturing locations,
two in North Yorkshire and one at Larkhall in
Scotland. There is also a Design and Development
Centre situated in the Midlands, and a furtherfacility in Wales, which engineers metal pressingsand fasteners.
Its manufacturing sites in Yorkshire, at Stamford
Bridge and Pickering, were set up by a post-war
pioneer of injection moulding. This ‘tradition’ ofinnovation continues today. Rosti’s design anddevelopment team, based at its new headquarters
in Leamington Spa, works closely with engineersfrom original equipment manufacturers(OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers to meet the everchanging needs of the automotive industry. Itsfour manufacturing plants then use the latest
automation, moulding, metal pressing and painttechnologies to turn those designs into reality.
Rosti Automotive components span a diverse
range — from door claddings to interior mirror
systems, through engine covers. Whatever theproduct, though, one thing remains the same:the Rosti Automotive commitment to the highest
possible standards of design and manufacturing,
implementing the best business practice.

Working with BSIThis commitment is reflected in the company’srelationship with BSI, the world’s oldest businessstandards organization. The Rosti Automotive
Yorkshire plants and the bracketry plant in Wales
first started working with BSI some 20 years ago,and Rosti Automotive now uses BSI across all ofits UK sites.
“BSI are our preferred supplier for certification,”says Mary Atkinson, Business Systems Engineerfor Rosti Automotive Limited. “They offer very
good value for the service they provide.”
BSI won the group-wide account after acompetitive tendering process, and theorganization will, says Ms Atkinson, play animportant role in the strategic development ofthe company, which is currently setting up an

BSI Case Study: Rosti Automotive Limited
Certification: IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

office in China. “We are taking BSI with us aswe go global; they’re helping us put our plan
together,” Ms Atkinson continues.
The global reach of BSI, which has 30 overseas
offices and clients in 193 countries, makes
it an ideal partner for a company that is
expanding internationally. But it is, perhaps,
BSI’s role in helping to build an integrated
quality management system (QMS) that Rosti
Automotive currently values most. “We knew we
had to get our UK QMS platform right before
expanding our global customer base,” says Ms
Atkinson. “We needed reliable support in building
strong, constructive systems, and I have 100%
faith that BSI can continue to help us achieve ourobjectives.”

IATF 16949
In line with its commitment to product qualityand safety, Rosti Automotive was an early
adopter of IATF 16949, the international QMS
standard for the automotive industry, publishedin 2016. All of its plants are now certified to IATF
16949 by BSI. Like its predecessor, TS 16949, thestandard was developed by and for theautomotive industry. It includes and builds upon
the requirements of the international standardfor quality management, ISO 9001. As therequirements are much more stringent, it can bea challenging process to achieve certification.
“Whereas the old standard was based on the Plan,Do, Check, Act cycle, IATF 16949 requiresa more risk-based approach and puts much moreemphasis on employee participation,” Ms
Atkinson explains. “The days when a company
could simply designate a QMS manager and ‘tick
the box’ are gone. IATF 16949 is about ‘leadershipat all levels’, from the top down and the bottom
up. You have to write business systems to reflect
this change, and make sure everyone in theorganization understands them.”
BSI played an instrumental role in helping thecompany meet these challenges and ‘embed’
quality management throughout the organization.
“I cannot stress enough how helpful BSI havebeen in building a new system and proactively
working with us,” Ms Atkinson says.

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ISO 45001
In addition to IATF 16949, Rosti moved to thenew environmental management standard, ISO
14001:2015, in 2017 and it is now migrating
to the new occupational health and safety
standard, ISO 45001, successor to OHSAS 18001.
Having the ‘hat-trick’ is an obvious next step:
ISO 9001:2015 creates a high-level structure(HLS) or generic approach for management
systems; transition to IATF 16949 and you’re in agood position to transition to other new quality
management standards as well. It’s also, ofcourse, a business-critical move: as the emphasis
shifts to risk-based thinking and to all the internaland external factors that need to be taken into
account in the QMS, 14001 and 45001 are seen
as part of a company’s ‘licence to trade’. “IATF
16949 is essential — no standard, no business— and environmental management and healthand safety standards are also now increasingly
mandated by OEMs,” says Ms Atkinson.

Employee engagement and BSI
There are other, less obvious, reasons to adopt
the new standards — and to work with BSI. “Thenew focus on teamwork and empowerment
in the HLS helps build and maintain employee
engagement and morale,” Ms Atkinson says.
In this, BSI also plays its part. “When BSI comeon site, they’re visible to employees, they engagewith them. It underlines that we value our people
and their contributions.”
Employee engagement is key in the move to ISO
45001, which takes OHSAS 18001, International
Labour Organization guidelines and various
national standards of occupational health andsafety into account. “It can only enhance oursystems,” Ms Atkinson adds.

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