Today, our focus is on innovative ways to deliver business benefits. This enables us to help our customers improve quality, safety, efficiency, productivity and speed to market while reducing risk and building trust in sustainable operations.
Our Value to Society Through our integrated leadership approach, we strive to become an increasingly sustainable company, maximizing the positive impact we have. We add more than just financial value to society. All our stakeholders (employees and suppliers, investors, customers, governments and industries, consumers, and communities and society) are the ultimate beneficiaries. In order to measure our success, we are developing an innovative impact valuation model to quantify our value to society. Established in 1878, SGS transformed grain trading in Europe by offering innovative agricultural inspection services. From those early beginnings, we steadily grew in size and scope as our agricultural inspection services spread around the world. During the mid-20th century, we began to diversify and started offering inspection, testing and verification services across a variety of sectors, including industrial, minerals, oil, gas, and chemicals. In 1981, SGS was listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange and forged an unrivaled reputation as the industry leader in finding solutions to the complex challenges faced every day by organizations.
Our History We are SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. Our 96,000 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world.
What Is Independent Inspection?
Simply defined, independent inspection is, "The independent verification of quantity and /or quality of a commercially traded product." This independent inspection helps to ensure contract compliance and improve the speed and efficiency of transactions; safety and reliability of plant and equipment; and respect for delivery and production schedules This basic awareness course is going to focus on inspection of petroleum and petrochemical products. When these materials are traded, the point where the goods change hands is referred to as “custody transfer”. You should take note of this term as you will hear it many times. Inspections carried out using the three fundamental principals of independence, impartiality and quality can only be achieved by use of trained, competent and conscientious inspectors and technicians whose primary interest is the integrity of the cargo from point of shipment to the point of delivery.
Our Purpose Our purpose is to enable a better, safer and more
interconnected world. How do we do this?
We enable a better world by helping businesses everywhere to work efficiently, to deliver with quality, and to trade with integrity and trust. We enable a safer world by ensuring that your car is safe to drive, that the environment you work in is secure and clean, and that the food you eat is safe. We enable a more interconnected world by, for example, helping new technology to reach consumers quickly and affordably, by ensuring the security of IT systems and data, and by using AI and the Internet of Things to help develop smart cities.
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