Partnerships

As well as working in partnership with many of its end-clients HPO also works with partners to develop and promote process and systems thinking.

• Underwriters Laboratories Inc (UL) Limited
  
  

  HPO Group Limited is Underwriters Laboratories Inc.’s strategic partner for the UL ClearView program.  UL ClearView is a highly flexible assessment approach that provides clients with richer information to support improvement activity and performance benchmarking.

  The approach draws on behavioural on-line assessment techniques, pioneered by the HPO Group, to deliver information on the effectiveness and compliance of management systems. This enables highly focused on-site follow-up, in areas of risk, to deliver previously unobtainable value. It represents the next generation of assessment services.

  UL is a world leader in product safety testing and certification.  Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit, product safety certification organization that has been testing products and writing Standards for Safety for over a century. UL evaluates more than 19,000 types of products, components, materials and systems annually with 21 billion UL Marks appearing on 71,000 manufacturers’ products each year.

  UL’s worldwide family of companies and network of service providers includes 66 laboratories, testing and certification facilities serving customers in 104 countries. For more information, visit: www.ul.com/ulclearview
  
  
  
• RPS Group
  
  RPS is an international consultancy providing advice upon the development of natural resources, land and property, the management of the environment and the health and safety of people. RPS has a reputation for meeting the challenges posed by large, complex projects and problems and for conducting business in an open and responsible manner.

  RPS provides global multidisciplinary consultancy services in three main activities: Environmental Management, Energy, Planning and Development (www.rpsgroup.com).
  

• University of Canterbury (UC), College of Business and Economics
  
  The HPO Group Ltd maintains close collaboration with Dr Pavel Castka on research projects dealing with Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance and ISO 9000 management systems. This provides the HPO with direct access to latest academic findings and adds the academic rigor necessary to expand and improve HPO activities.

  Dr Castka directs several research projects funded by industry and College of Business and Economics and maintains close collaborations with academics and professional organisations globally. Apart from his research at UC, Dr Castka acts as a nominated expert at ISO/TMB/WG SR – a working group developing new ISO 26000 guidance standard for social responsibility.
  

• Haechar Internet Limited
  
  Haechar Internet Limited, a web development company based in Northampton, England, have over the last 4 years provided the HPO with technical and development expertise for all our online technology requirements. They have been instrumental in developing our unique Online Assessment Tool which has required thousands of hours of consultation, technical programming and data handling.