The British Institute of Cleaning Services

Our Accreditations

1996 - 2017 21 Years of Service Excellence, GSA is proud of our Awards and Accreditations.

GSA have attained the 9001:2015 quality management standard through a certified UKAS body.

Registration No: 209768
GSA have attained ISO 14001 certification for its Environmental Management by a UKAS certified body.

Registration Number: 209808
GSA have attained OHSAS 45001 certification for its Environmental Management by a UKAS certified body.

Registration Number: 209809
More than ever there is a need to take health and safety seriously and ensure that we have made suitable arrangements when on our clients’ sites.

The Safecontractor scheme is designed to review and audit the health and safety policies, procedures and documentation of contractors. Safecontractor’s qualified auditors take into consideration our industry sector and business size, providing tailored safety audits that assess whether there is suitable and sufficient health and safety compliance within our business.
The Federation was established in 1947 as an independent, non-profit making organisation to support the needs of window cleaners in the UK. Their purpose is to maintain and improve the window cleaning industry and to represent the membership. Membership of the federation offers GSA numerous benefits from advice through to high calibre training courses.

The FWC Safety Accredited Scheme, (SAM) supports GSA with advice on managing our health and safety requirements on window cleaning operations.
GSA has clients who wish us to subscribe to the Altius Assure service. Altius include an assessment of our capabilities and have helped us to build a profile that clearly demonstrates to our clients that we meet their requirements.

This accreditation provides clients with demonstrable assurance that GSA are capable and competent to work safely and comply with legislation such as the Construction, Design and Management regulations.
PICS is a safety company created by leading safety professionals. Some of our clients use PICS to search for potential vendors, looking for qualified bidders who are PICS members.

PICS has helped us to build a strong and effective safety program, As a member of PICS we can work with clients to help them to prevent accidents and legal challenges. PICS safety professionals help both the clients and us to manage risk and contractual performance.
The British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) is the largest independent, professional and educational body within the cleaning industry with over 10,000 individual and corporate members in the UK and Internationally. Their mission is to ‘raise the status and standards of the cleaning industry, through education and accredited training.’ BICSc Standards combine intelligence from a number of highly regarded cleaning industry experts.

GSA invest in membership of BICSc so that our clients know that we do not just train and educate our staff to BICSc accredited standards but also follow overall ‘Best Practice’ for the cleaning industry.