July 31, 2002	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 20,1423

PESHAWAR, July 30: NWFP is more conducive for implementing Quality Management System, but unfortunately industrialists here are reluctant to accept it because of communication gape.

This was stated by Haseeb Tahir Baig, chief executive of Quality Management System (QMS-9000), in a one-day seminar on “Environmental Management System (ISO-14001)” at Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Tahir Baig said: “It is fact that due to our professional services and strong engineering background we have a client list of over 150 companies in Pakistan.”

Malik Zahid Hussain, while presiding over the seminar said, “as all of us know that due to rapid expansion in the industrial front the world is becoming more polluted than ever and this is happening because we don’t know about our environment and measures for saving it.”

The QMS chief executive discussed various topics, including understanding of environment, introduction of Quality Management System (ISO-9002), environment system (EMS ISO-14001) for industries, introduction to ISO 14001, implemental laws and regulations, environmental aspects, impact, brief history of ISO, ways and means to utilize the waste/raw material and safety masseur.

Dr M. Bashir Khan, director general, Environment Protection Agency, while giving details about the activities of Environmental Management System (ISO-9000) said that it was very active in creating awareness about environmental issues through seminars, workshops, broachers, etc., but the industrialists are not so cooperative. They do not know that how can they improve their productions quality and community image.

Various industrialists, SCCI executive members, team of QMS (ISO-9000), newsmen and students attended the seminar.