ISO certificates and EC declarations of conformity
Ruukki's quality and environmental issues are managed according to the quality management standard ISO 9001 and the environmental management standard ISO 14001. In 2010, certified systems covered 99 per cent (2009: 98) of production and in 2009, 87 per cent (2008: 80) of employees.
In accordance to management systems, processes and environmental aspects of operations are identified at Ruukki and the targets and the programmes to achieve them are drawn up. As a part of the environmental management system is to identify statutory requirements relating to operations and to ensure compliance with these and voluntary commitments. Identifying and developing the needs of stakeholders is also an important part of managing quality and environmental issues.
To ensure the continuous improvement, the systems and operations are regularly assessed using both internal and external audits. In audits it will be established whether or not the systems meet the re-quirements. In addition, management will regularly establish in its reviews, whether or not the quality and environmental management systems meet the targets set.
Environmental product declarations
There are environmental product declarations for Ruukki's most commonly used steel products.
These declarations are based on the basic principles stated in the ISO standard series 14040 and 14020.
Environmental product declarations include information about the use of raw materials, energy consumption and emissions arising from production, as well as product recyclability. In addition, they include information about the safe use of products.
The stakeholders of steel producers have also access to the results of the World Steel Association's (worldsteel) life cycle assessments. For more detailed product-specific life cycle assessments, please fill in the
LCI data request form.