David Palacios is Director of Quality, Environment & Safety, SENER

 

The engineering and technology group SENER has brought together its Quality, Environment and Safety divisions into one unified Department. The move aims to reorganize the group's standards and procedures, ensure compliance with SENER’s code of conduct, manage knowledge in the company and give support to the General Departments of Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning through the creation, maintenance and use of technical standards at the firm.

Quality, Environment and Safety have been priorities at SENER since the very beginning. Today, they comprise one of the founding pillars of the company's day-to-day business. The group has its own integrated system certified under the ISO 9001 standard for all of its activities and work sites (the first engineering company in Spain to receive this certification). It also holds the ISO 14001:2004 in environmental management and the OHSAS 18001:2007 in occupational health and safety management, as well as more specific standards such as the AENOR certificate for R&D+I in accordance with Spanish standard UNE 166002:2006.

Also in the scope of SENER’s Quality, Environment and Safety it is worth highlighting the group’s Code of Conduct, which was published in 2013 and outlines the behavioral expected of people in SENER and of their relationships with clients, suppliers, collaborators and institutions.
 

David Palacios will be responsible for the management and coordination of these and other areas in his role as the new Director of Quality, Environment and Safety. David Palacios is a Marine Engineer from the School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (ETSIN) in Madrid. He also completed the Accelerated Development Programme (ADP) at the London Business School and has forged a lengthy career at SENER; since joining the company in 1994, he has fulfilled various roles including head of both the Ships and Process and Mechanics Sections.