Since being founded in 1974 EGS has gained a global reputation of excellence, always delivering the highest standards of service to our customers. We are focused on meeting their requirements and exceeding their expectations, maintaining regular communication to always understand what it expected of us.
Our global offices and vessels are regularly audited by independent accredited certification bodies and world leading Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Utilities companies. This helps us ensure that we always meet or exceed our client’s high expectations in the areas of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ).
Bringing together the interdisciplinary skills of:
EGS recognise that people are vital to maintaining our hard-won reputation of the company. It is our belief that the key to a safe and healthy workplace stems from the hearts and minds of all individuals working for the organisation. Our expectations are that everybody working for us will adhere to our high standards of health and safety management in the workplace, this included whilst they are travelling, and in the services, they are delivering to our customers.
We believe that we also have a responsibility to the environment beyond legal and regulatory requirements. We are committed to reducing our environmental impact where reasonably practicable, by setting targets and objectives to ensure that we continuously improve on our performance making it an integral part of our business strategy and operating methodology. We actively encourage clients, suppliers and other interested parties to do the same.
The Leadership Team of EGS regards health and safety at work and protection of our environment as a matter of the highest priority but we understand it may not be possible to ensure a totally hazard-free environment. Therefore, our statement of general policy is to, so far as reasonably practicable will ensure that practical measures are taken to:
We demonstrate by our actions, at every level of the organisation, that EGS and all its employees are truly committed to pollution prevention and continual improvement while fulfilling compliance obligations.
We proactively produce plans and conduct our operations according to sound environmental principles. Our activities bring our staff into daily contact with the Earth’s resources and ecosystems, including areas of high environmental value and sensitivity. Our commitment is to strive to minimise our impact, with the target of zero long-term effects caused to the environment by our activities.
Some aspects of our activities are subject to specific laws or regulations, with which we shall comply fully. Moreover, we shall go beyond the requirements of compliance and endeavour to use the best practical environmental standards and procedures even in the absence of any legal requirements.
Accountability for the successful implementation of the HSEQ management system, including all policies, resides with Leadership Team. All employees, however, are responsible for performing their duties according to the HSEQ management system principles and policies.
EGS provides high quality measurement services based on efficient and cost effective geophysical, hydrographic, oceanographic and other maritime survey services. The company’s goal is to provide surveys, to the highest standards, while meeting the requirements and exceeding the expectations of our clients. To achieve this goal, we are committed to implementing, maintaining and continually improving and assessing operational systems and processes. We firmly believe in the concept of customers and suppliers working together in pursuit of a continuous improving working environment to ensure a high quality of service is maintained. The Quality Policy is based on 3 fundamental principles:
The Leadership Team regards the quality of our product and services as one of our core values and will ensure that practical measures are taken to:
Accountability for the successful implementation of quality management systems, resides with Leadership Team. All employees, however, are responsible for performing their duties according to the quality principles and policies established by EGS.
This policy is a key element of EGS Business Management Systems strategy and applies to all EGS Companies, management, employees, contractors and others associated with EGS operations.