PECB signs a partnership agreement with Warisco Consulting Services
Featured News
2018-02-26
February 20, 2018 – Today, PECB and Warisco Consulting Services announced a business partnership agreement to provide advanced training courses and professional certifications for individuals and companies. The companies will collaborate to deliver advanced training courses and improve business operations in Kenya. This joint partnership will enable Warisco Consulting Services to provide PECB training courses.
“With this business partnership agreement, we will be distributing advanced training courses and professional certifications to our customers, while improving our workflow in the global market,” said Eric Lachapelle, the Chief Executive Officer of PECB. “This partnership will enable PECB to deliver their professionalism, which will help customers become more experienced and qualified in the market. Warisco Consulting Services is a leader in the market of Kenya for providing qualitative solutions and training services. Combining our business services with Warisco Consulting Services brings outstanding training solutions, meaning that together we can deliver the most advanced training services,” concluded Lachapelle.
Walter Ondiek, Principal Consultant/Managing Director, Warisco Consulting Services
At Warisco Consulting Services, we dream big and envision our business as being the point of reference on food safety and quality assurance; at local, regional and international levels. We believe through our partnership with PECB, we will be able to reach out to underserved areas as well as offer unrivaled services to our esteemed clients. As Warisco team, it has been our desire to provide our clients with full packages including lead auditor training and management systems certification audits. However, these services have been restricted to certification bodies under the watchful eyes of accreditation bodies. Through our partnership with PECB, we now look forward to scaling up our operations to cover these key areas under the watchful eyes of PECB. Our partnership shall be a synergetic relationship where the two companies shall depend and support one another. We shall employ the power of our local and regional networks and experience in supporting PECB in penetrating the Kenyan and regional markets. To us, this is an opportunity like no other!
About PECB
PECB is a certification body for persons, management systems, and products on a wide range of international standards. As a global provider of training, examination, audit, and certification services, PECB offers its expertise on multiple fields, including but not limited to Information Security, IT, Business Continuity, Service Management, Quality Management Systems, Risk & Management, Health, Safety, and Environment.
We help professionals and organizations show commitment and competence by providing them with valuable education, evaluation, and certification against rigorous internationally recognized standards. Our mission is to provide our clients comprehensive services that inspire trust, continual improvement, demonstrate recognition, and benefit the society as a whole. For additional information on PECB’s principal objectives and activities, please visit www.pecb.com.
About Warisco Consulting Services
Warisco Consulting Services is a specialty consultancy business that focuses on food safety management systems, food defense and food fraud assessment, business risk-based thinking, root cause analysis and quality management systems. The food safety standards include: HACCP, FSSC 22000 and ISO 22000. Warisco’s Quality Management System (QMS) programs are based on ISO 9001:2015 principles and designed to serve clients in both food and non-food value chains. Our food safety programs target risks that are associated with unintentional food contamination while the food defense and food fraud programs are designed to assist food organizations or businesses to identify and mitigate risks that are associated with intentional contamination and intentional deception.
Warisco’s services include: training, auditing, advisory and implementation of quality management systems (ISO 9001 standard) and food safety standards (ISO 22000, HACCP and FSSC 22000) as well as the assessment of food defense vulnerability and food fraud vulnerability. Our strength is resident in the knowledge, trainings, and experiences of our consultants. All our consultants are well educated; with minimum tertiary qualifications coupled with significant experience in a range of industries. Besides, our consultants are trained, certificated and practicing Lead Auditors. For example, our Principal Consultant, Mr. Walter Ondiek, is a highly experienced food scientist with adequate experience in African food value chains; having worked for a multinational, agri-business food firm and later as a trainer in a range of food industries. Besides, Walter holds a Master’s degree in Food Safety and Toxicology earned from Lincoln University, New Zealand; one of the developed nations with advanced food safety and quality management systems.
As a dynamic consultancy business, we strive to serve clients of various sizes- small, medium and large-scale operators. On the food safety front, we work with individuals, businesses, NGOs, registered groups or cooperatives that grow, process, manufacture, distribute, serve or trade in food and food ingredients. On the quality management systems aspect, we work with both food and non-food oriented businesses. Our mission is to provide unrivaled technical services, at competitive prices, to businesses or organizations that seek to implement and maintain or pursue certification in food safety and quality management systems. We aim to maintain healthy relationship with our customers and business partners through building trust and delivering high standard of services. We endeavor to create a conducive work environment which is rewarding, enjoyable and respectful of cultural diversity. For more information, feel free to visit our website: www.warisco.co.ke.