HSEQ — Health, Safety, Environment & Quality

Our commitment

Industrial welding is inherently high-risk work. Hot work, confined spaces, working at height, heavy lifts, pressure systems — the hazards are real and they don’t tolerate shortcuts. Our HSEQ commitment is straightforward: we manage these risks systematically, we integrate with our client’s safety systems, and we maintain certified management systems that provide the framework for doing both.

We hold three management system certifications:

• ISO 45001 — Occupational health and safety management
• ISO 14001 — Environmental management
• ISO 9001 — Quality management

These certifications represent maintained systems, not one-time achievements. They’re audited, reviewed, and updated on schedule.

Health & Safety

Safety management framework

Our safety management operates within the ISO 45001 framework:

• Hazard identification and risk assessment — conducted for every new project during pre-mobilization planning. Our welding supervisor reviews the scope with the main contractor’s safety lead to identify project-specific risks.
• Permit-to-work compliance — we work under the client plant’s PTW system. Our supervisors are inducted and authorized to operate within the plant’s specific PTW framework before the first day of work.
• Hot work procedures — every welding and cutting activity on an operating site requires a hot work permit. Fire watch, extinguisher, exclusion zone, atmospheric monitoring where applicable — all per plant procedure.
• Confined space entry — trained crews for vessel entry and exchanger internal work. Atmospheric monitoring, standby personnel, and rescue plan in place before entry.
• Working at height — certified and equipped per the national standard of the deployment country.
• Incident reporting — any incident, near-miss, or safety observation is reported immediately to the main contractor and recorded in our internal tracking system.

Client SHE framework integration

Major plant operators — particularly chemical producers — extend their safety management systems to contractors. We’ve operated under the INEOS SHE framework at INOVYN and under plant-specific HSE codes at St1 Refinery, Arctic Paper, and NEURYON.

Our approach is to adopt the client’s framework rather than negotiate our own parallel system. Our crews arrive pre-briefed on the specific code. The daily toolbox talk happens in the client’s format. Incidents are reported through the client’s channel. Close-out reporting matches the client’s template.

Safety statistics

We maintain formal incident tracking aligned with ISO 45001. As our operational history matures — MIDAS has been active in Nordic markets since mid-2024 — we are building a rolling safety statistics record that will be published on this page.

We take this approach deliberately: we believe publishing accurate, verifiable safety data is more credible than publishing claims before the data exists to support them.

PPE and personal safety standards

All MIDAS personnel deployed to industrial sites wear PPE in compliance with:

• Site-specific PPE matrix (client-defined)
• EN standards for head, eye, ear, hand, foot, and respiratory protection
• Welding-specific PPE: auto-darkening helmets, flame-resistant clothing, welding gloves, respiratory protection for confined and low-ventilation welding

PPE compliance is not optional or discretionary. Any worker not meeting PPE requirements is stood down until corrected.

Environment

Environmental management

Our environmental management system operates under ISO 14001. On industrial sites, environmental risk is managed through:

• Waste management — welding consumable waste, cut-off material, contaminated PPE, and chemical waste are segregated and disposed per plant waste management procedure.
• Spill prevention — welding gas cylinders, cutting oils, and cleaning chemicals are stored and handled per site-specific environmental requirements.
• Emission control — welding fume extraction and ventilation as required by the work environment regulation of the deployment country.
• Energy use — we work within the plant’s energy infrastructure. Our direct environmental impact is limited to welding power consumption, transport to/from site, and consumable use.

Sustainability and ESG readiness

European industrial procurement is increasingly requiring ESG-weighted supplier evaluation. The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) — with a July 2026 transposition deadline — is formalising this trend.

MIDAS takes this seriously. Our position:

• We operate under ISO 14001 environmental management
• We align with client Codes of Conduct — including Stegra’s Supplier Code of Conduct (rev3, 2025) which references the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• We comply with EU sanctions regulations and maintain transparency on beneficial ownership through the Polish UBO register
• We do not employ undeclared subcontractors or engage in undocumented labour practices

As our operations scale and the CSDDD transposition takes effect, we will publish a formal ESG disclosure in line with the directive’s requirements for supply-chain participants.

Quality

Welding quality management

Our welding quality management operates under ISO 3834-2 — the comprehensive level for fusion welding of metallic materials. This is the single most important quality certification for a welding subcontractor in European industrial markets.

ISO 3834-2 covers:

• Design review — welding engineer reviews WPS applicability to the scope
• Subcontracting — qualified suppliers for consumables, NDT, heat treatment
• Welders — qualified under EN ISO 9606-1, managed through a live qualification register
• Welding coordination — tasks and responsibilities per EN ISO 14731
• Welding procedures — qualified per EN ISO 15614-1, maintained WPS/WPQR library
• Material — traceability from MTC to installed weld
• Inspection — in-process and final, per EN ISO 5817 quality levels
• Documentation — test packs, weld maps, material traceability, NDT records

Quality control in practice

On every project, our quality approach follows the same structure:

1. Pre-mobilization — WPS confirmation for the scope, welder-to-WPS matching, documentation template confirmation with the main contractor
2. Execution — welds documented as they’re produced. Daily logs completed. NDT coordinated on schedule.
3. Handover — completed test pack per spool or work area, including weld map, WPS references, welder IDs, material traceability, NDT records

Our target is zero rework. Our approach to achieving it is prevention through procedure adherence rather than detection after the fact.

Certifications

Full certification details — cert numbers, certifying bodies, valid-until dates, and downloadable PDFs — are published on our Certifications page.

Downloads

• HSE Policy (PDF) — to be published
• Quality Policy (PDF) — to be published
• Capability Statement (PDF) — includes HSEQ overview

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