QHSE management focuses on establishing and maintaining three main standards that are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems, ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, and ISO 45001, Occupational Health and Safety.

By continually improving and ensuring efficiency, the standards that are the guiding ideology for QHSE provide assurance to customers that the goods or services they’re investing in are of high quality.

Although QHSE’s core standards involve different management procedures, they are able to work together by using a High-Level Structure (HLS). Any business that has an existing ISO management system will find that it’s easy to integrate each standard; they have similar terms, definitions, and text that follow a common framework, and can be used to fill any gaps within a management system.