QUALITY POLICY

The culture of quality is a tradition that’s deeply rooted within our Company’s history. One of the guiding principles that has always been upheld and shared by everyone is that:

“The Company’s success and the satisfaction of its customers depend on the quality of the products and services offered.”

Antano group S.r.l – technologies for a better life.

This original idea of quality, which was purely technical in nature and was limited exclusively to the products and services, was gradually integrated with the concept that “quality” means:

  • Understand the expressed or implicit needs of Customers in order to provide them with appropriate products and services, as well as safe and effective medical devices.
  • understanding the expressed or implied needs of the stakeholders;
  • creating new products and services and improving upon those already offered, in order to anticipate the Customers’ future requirements;
  • providing qualified support to Customers, in order to allow them to utilise the products and services to their full benefit and satisfaction.

These quality goals are pursued through constant efforts at all levels, so that, in carrying out our daily operations:

  • Every activity is properly planned
  • All the activities are carried out according to the standards laid out in the Quality System, ensuring that all the requirements are met and effectiveness is maintained
  • Risk management is kept under control throughout all of the medical devices’ life cycle stages
  • Every activity carried out on the customer’s premises generates the expected result
  • Every activity is completed within the established time frames
  • Any complaints are resolved
  • The post-sale surveillance phase of all the medical devices is managed in such a way as to maintain their safety and effectiveness, in order to ensure the reliability of the products over time, as well as the continuous improvement of the technical capabilities and production standards.
  • The Company’s market image is improved thanks to an efficient organisational structure and greater transparency towards the outside world
  • Continuous improvement is pursued based on the analysis of the company’s performance
  • Specific commitments are met with regard to the oversight of the products’ compliance with the medical industry’s regulatory requirements.

In order to ensure the achievement of the Quality objectives and customer satisfaction, the Quality values must also be reflected within the organisation itself:

  • The value of a person is a value for the company;
  • It is important to document or justify all business decisions;
  • One can grow within the company through merit.

SAFETY POLICY

The entire Antano Group Srl organisation is committed to:

  • ensuring that accident prevention and occupational safety are considered primary goals of the policies adopted by Antano Group Srl;
  • ensuring, in particular, that the improvement of the organisation and, therefore, the productivity of the work activities, is achieved, even through the regulation and improvement of the safety measures at its work sites;
  • ensuring that everyone who is part of the company’s organisation, from the senior management to the workers, is considered responsible for the proper management of the accident prevention system;
  • respecting and enforcing the individual workers’ compliance with the current regulations and the company’s occupational safety and hygiene provisions, including the use of collective means of protection and individual protective equipment made available to them;
  • ensuring, in particular, that the prevention measures for accidents that could entail serious or very serious injuries are understood and applied by everyone with appropriate emphasis and diligence;
  • providing the necessary human, instrumental, and economic resources for the system’s implementation;
  • holding educational initiatives and training courses for the workers, in order to raise their awareness and train them to carry out their accident prevention and work organisation duties;
  • engaging and consult with the workers, including and especially through their safety representative;
  • pursuing the improvement of the company’s organisation in terms of safety and accident prevention;
  • preventing the employment of personnel who have not been properly registered or have not provided the mandatory documentation, as well as employment conditions that do not respect the regular working hours and break periods, even among its subcontractors.

All the activities carried out on the company’s premises and those that Antano Group S.r.l. carries out directly off premises (e.g. transport, services provided on the customers’ premises), as well as the activities carried out by third parties on the company’s premises that could interfere with its own activities (contractors), are analysed in order to identify any hazards that may be present, as well as any organisational and operational aspects that could have a significant impact on Occupational Health and Safety. The analysis is coordinated by the OHSM, in collaboration with the OHSD and the entire company structure (managers, supervisors, and workers), the competent physician, and any external companies operating on the company’s premises or upon whose premises Antano Group S.r.l. personnel are present.

As previously specified, the risk assessment is preceded by consultation, by the employer or a delegated person, with the workers’ safety representatives (RLS). The work processes are broken down into elementary phases, within which the potential dangers and dangerous situations are identified, and the relative risks are assessed.

Any occasional activities upon which Antano Group S.r.l. may have an influence, whether carried out on the company’s premises or off premises, to the extent possible, are also taken into consideration.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Antano Group Srl works to provide private and public companies with the design and delivery of services, carrying out its activities in a way that ensures the integration of the site into the environmental context in which it is located. In this vision, Antano Group Srl pays the utmost attention to the protection of the environment and the territory, in full compliance with legal requirements.

For this reason, the Company intends to continue being a leading company by pursuing sustainable development based on measurable outcomes.

The methodological approach for defining the environmental policy is based on adopting:

  • a “proactive principle” in the management of environmental aspects, considering them as an integrated variable in the company’s management.
  • the principle of continuous improvement for planning, implementation, operation, control, corrective actions, and review.

To achieve these objectives, Antano Group Srl is committed to:

  • Comply with legal environmental requirements, comply with the provisions of Public Authorities, and adhere to voluntary agreements signed with Public and Private Entities;
  • Minimize environmental impacts during activities by optimizing energy and raw material consumption through proper management of resources, emissions, and discharges;
  • Prevent environmental impacts where economically acceptable and technically feasible, pursuing the continuous improvement of environmental performance;
  • Ensure that every collaborator is aware, responsible, and actively involved in the company’s efforts in managing environmental aspects;
  • Allocate adequate resources for the implementation of the environmental policy and programs.
  • Adopt the best available technologies with an awareness and economic compatibility perspective;
  • Adequate and continuous training and instruction of personnel;
  • Constantly verify the improvement of environmental performance by modifying, when necessary, the Company’s environmental management system, policy, programs, and procedures;
  • Collaborate with the competent authorities and Public Entities in the development of regulations and initiatives aimed primarily at better management of activities;
  • Communicate the company’s environmental policy appropriately and in a documented manner to all personnel, municipalities, public entities and associations, suppliers, and customers;
  • Meet the Minimum Environmental Criteria, periodically updated based on technological and market developments.

A Company where Employees, Management, and Ownership consistently share Management tools, perceived by all as essential for achieving corporate objectives.

The policies, objectives, and commitments established by Management regarding quality are communicated to all Employees of the company and supported through information and training activities.