The Nuclear Research Institute Řež plc has implemented and continuously upgraded the Integrated Management System as required in the generally applicable regulations and international standards, namely in EN ISO 9001:2000 (Quality Management System); EN ISO 3834-2 (system of Quality Assurance in welding); EN ISO 14001:2004 (Environment Management System) and OHSAS 18001:2008 (Occupational Safety Management System).

The company's management systems have been audited for their proper implementation and application by TÜV NORD Czech, an independent certification agency, and based on the successful audit results the agency granted certificates for these lines of business:

• research & development jobs, analyses, expert reviews and services in nuclear technologies, power engineering and industry, including solutions to nuclear safety, radiation protection, the use of ionizing radiation, and providing reactor-related services;
• research, development and manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals;
• designing and engineering activities; deliveries for major construction projects;

The certificates are good for these facilities: Řež, Prague, Vyskočilova Str. (ENERGOPROJEKT PRAHA); the Na Homolce Hospital, Prague (PET Center) and the Masaryk Institute of Oncology, Brno (PET Center).

The systems are annually validated in follow-up audits for proper performance and use.

The certifications are to prove to our business and other partners that we not only proceed in a qualified and effective manner when pursuing the technically demanding and responsible activities related to the research, development and implementation of the projects, but that we also endeavor, as best achievable, to protect the environment and keep the employees and visitors out of harm's way.

Quality assurance of processes and products applied in the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals is regularly scrutinized by the State Institute for Drug Control, an institution issuing a "Certificate of Proper Practice in Producing Medical Preparations"; a "Certificate of Proper Practice in Producing Medical Substances"; and a "Certificate of Proper Laboratory Practice".

The accreditation criteria defined in EN ISO / EC 17025 and required to be applied to test and determine the selected mechanical / physical & chemical / electrical / radiation and other characteristics of materials are documented as fulfilled by the "Certificate of Accreditation" granted by the Czech Accreditation Institute for:

• Testing Laboratory for structural properties and corrosion
• Testing Laboratory for mechanical properties
• Testing Laboratory for radiation chemistry and environment qualification
• Central Analytical Laboratory
• Calibrating Laboratory - temperatures & pressures

System of Quality Assurance implemented in the use of nuclear power and ionizing radiation and designed to meet the requirements of generally applicable regulations has been described in the Quality Assurance Programs and the related control documents. With all the requirements satisfied, the Government watchdog agency - the State Office for Nuclear Safety - grants a permission to pursue activities in radiation protection, nuclear safety and radwaste management.

ÚJV Řež is a vetted supplier for a range of companies, e.g. ČEZ, a.s., SE, a.s., I&C Energo, Škoda JS, JE Paks and others, firms subjecting our company to their customer audits. The audits review not only our Quality System in general, but also specific jobs they order from us.

To meet the expectations of our customers, to demonstrate the efforts we take to be as environment-friendly as achievable and to protect the health of our employees, the corporate management formulated an integrated policy based on the company's strategy approved by the General Meeting and consistent with the overall policy of the firm intended specifically:

1. to enhance the company's standing and image on the domestic and foreign markets by improving the level of know-how; by providing integrated solutions; and by upgrading the technical infrastructure;
2. to continue activities aimed to improve effectivity and quality of the company's activities and processes, focusing on the overall rationalization while maintaining the company economically effective;
3. to pay, when approving long-term business plans and the ensuing company plans, proper attention to resources that the company's stability and long-term development may require, upgrading the infrastructure and enhancing effectivity & efficiency of the Integrated Management System;
4. to motivate the workers to raise the productivity and quality of labor; to recruit young people and offer them conditions conducive to their professional growth so that the company may develop in the long run; to continually provide training courses and education occasions so that the employees will improve their know-how and skills and start feeling more responsible for their own performance, for the environment and the occupational safety;
5. to fulfill requirements of the generally applicable regulations and any other requirements that the company undertook to meet.
6. to make products and provide services of consistently high quality compliant with what the customers may wish by properly following procedures adopted to verify and inspect the quality of the products and services;
7. to share the objectives of the integrated policy with our major suppliers and lessees through mutual communication focused on mutual improvements; to familiarize our partners with principles and procedures applied by our company and make sure they will properly implement them;.
8. to strengthen a flexible approach to employees and encourage dialog with them, with the public and with other affected parties through welcoming initiative and adequately responding to it;.
9. to take proper care of safety, particularly of nuclear safety, radiation protection, workplace safety and the safety of information systems; to eliminate major risks and prevent injuries and occupational diseases;
10. to gradually reduce the amounts of pollutants released into the environment and take continuous care of contamination prevention; to dispose, by degrees, of the old environmental burdens;
11. to continually seek out possibilities available to reduce the consumption of energies, feedstock and other materials; to lessen the quantities of generated wastes and search for options offering themselves to apply the wastes as serviceable materials and energy sources;
12. to maintain and protect the company's assets such as the people, property, know-how and goodwill; to adequately insure unpredictable and unavoidable risks in an attempt at alleviating their detrimental impact on the assets.

To give support to the integrated policy, the company management undertakes to regularly review the adequacy of the policy, to provide the resources needed and create working conditions supportive of the declared intentions.

The company management expects the employees to consistently adhere to the set objectives; to follow procedures prescribed in the managing documentation; to accomplish work of high quality and take responsibility for it; to run self-checks so as to prevent using faulty procedures; and, before a piece of work is delivered to a customer, to make sure it is up to the mark. The company may only succeed if it behaves responsibly toward the environment, upholds the principles of occupational safety & health protection and generates ideas contributive to continuous improvement of the firm.