ISO 45001
In September 2024, RMS achieved ISO 45001 certification, the international standard for occupational health and safety management. This accreditation recognises our systematic approach to creating safe and healthy workplaces, preventing risks to health, and driving continuous improvement.
For our retail partners, ISO 45001 is reassurance that RMS places safety at the heart of every project, ensuring our teams and yours can work confidently and responsibly in any retail environment.
SafeContractor
RMS always puts employees’ health and safety first, above all else. We care and are competent in health and safety, and have achieved SafeContractor Approved status to prove it.
Alcumus SafeContractor is the market-leading health and safety accreditation body, an SSIP founding member with 20 years’ experience. They employ 80 internal auditors to help companies succeed, and their questionnaires are comprised of tailored risk-based questions which are relevant to the profession of a particular client.
The SafeContractor scheme contains over 30,000 members. It checks that contractors have the necessary requirements around health and safety, equal opportunities, diversity and environmental management practices.
To join them and become SafeContractor accredited, RMS had to complete a health and safety assessment and undergo multiple audits. The SSIP and PAS91 accreditation grants us confidence that our business meets the right standards, and allows us to demonstrate our health and safety competency to new and existing retail partners.
Sedex
Sedex is one of the world’s leading ethical trade membership organisations, helping businesses to improve working conditions in their supply chains.
Sedex provides innovative solutions to protect people, the environment and business, in a sustainable and ethical way. They aim to:
- Enable responsible sourcing through collaboration and information gathering and sharing
- Make supply chain transparency simple through easy-to-use tools and services
- Protect people, the environment and business by proactively identifying and managing risk
- Enable sustainable and responsible business through technological solutions.
To become a member of this organisation, RMS had to undergo a SMETA 2.0 audit – this is where SMETA sends an agent into the field to interview several workers at random to obtain feedback. They also ensure that those individuals are employed by RMS and have a valid contract of employment, their personnel files are complete and accurate, and that their appointed bank account is held in their name.
These audits take place every few years, and they help RMS to uphold the standards concerned with ethical issues such as modern slavery and working conditions.
Working with Sedex enables RMS to better manage our social and environmental performance and improve our supply chain efficiency, highlighting our promise to provide optimum working conditions for our people.
EcoVadis
Founded in 2007, EcoVadis has become the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, creating a global network of more than 75,000 rated companies. Their mission is to provide the world’s most-trusted sustainability ratings, enabling businesses to reduce risk, boost performance, and improve environmental and social outcomes.
The EcoVadis sustainability assessment methodology is at the heart of their ratings and scorecards. It is built on international sustainability standards, including the Global Reporting Initiative, the UN Global Compact, and the ISO 26000, covering 200 spend categories and 160+ countries.
The Sustainability Scorecard illustrates performance across 21 indicators in 4 themes:
- Environment (70/100)
- Labour & Human Rights (66/100)
- Ethics (64/100)
- Sustainable Procurement (49/100)
In 2025, RMS was awarded the EcoVadis Bronze Award, which underscores our dedication to continuous improvement in the areas mentioned above. We received an overall score of 65/100, outperforming the industry standard by a considerable margin.