ISO 9001 is an international standard for quality management systems. It provides a framework to ensure consistent quality and services by focusing on customer satisfaction, process improvement, and regulatory compliance. Implementing ISO 9001 helps us to streamline operations, reduce waste, and enhance efficiency.

Taking care of our environment and reducing the environmental footprint, are two of the most important challenges facing businesses today. ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for an effective environmental management system. By following ISO 14001, we can improve our environmental performance, ensure compliance with regulations, and invest in the future. 

ISO 22000 is a Food Safety Management System which outlines what needs to be in a Food Safety Management System This is to make sure that food is kept safe during the entire food supply chain, from farm to fork. The standard integrates principles of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), helping us to identify, prevent, and control food safety hazards.

Several of our warehousing branches in the Netherlands are IFS logistics certified on the highest level. IFS Logistics is a standard for assessing the quality and safety of logistics services, including transport, storage, and distribution. It ensures us to maintain high standards for handling food and non-food products, reducing the risk of contamination, spoilage, or damage. 

BRCGS Storage and Distribution is a global standard ensuring the safe storage and distribution of products. It covers handling, storage, and distribution of goods, focusing on maintaining product quality and safety throughout the supply chain. Our warehouse in Coalville is certified for BRCGS. 

Internationally recognized as a mark of quality, an AEO certificate is  granted by customs authorities to companies that meet certain compliance, safety, and security standards in their supply chain operations. Achieving AEO status helps us to streamline customs procedures, reducing checks, and granting faster access to goods at borders.

Good Distribution Practice is a set of standards, guidelines, and principles for the storage and transportation of pharmaceutical products.
 

The Stichting Keur Alternatief voortgebrachte  Landbouwprodukten certificate ensures that Mainfreight complies with the EU regulations regarding biological products.

Mainfreight’s success is built on its Three Pillars of Culture, Family and Philosophy. The principles that make up these foundations have underpinned the Company’s values and ethics from its earliest days.

Mainfreight’s Code of Ethics and Conduct draws on the Three Pillars, and sets out the ethical and behavioural standards by which its Directors, Employees and Owner Drivers (collectively known as Mainfreight Team Members) are expected to conduct themselves.

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Mainfreight has a culture which encourages free, open and frank discussion at all times, and ensures that all Mainfreight team members are enabled to do their utmost to defend the integrity of the Mainfreight business through their vigilance and integrity. Each team member has a clear duty to report any serious breaches of conduct, and Mainfreight expects nothing less.

This Whistle-Blower Policy sets out the processes in place by which team members are able to raise concerns about actual or suspected contravention of the Company’s ethical and legal standards without fear of reprisal, or feeling threatened by doing so.

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