What is QUALITY OFFICE?
The certification mark stands for premium-quality products, capable consulting and tailored services and thereby for good office equipments.
- QUALITY OFFICE is the only quality label, that considers all criteria of contemporary office equipments.
- QUALITY OFFICE is based on the experience of five renowned institutions, which jointly published the guideline Quality Criteria for Office Workplaces.
- QUALITY OFFICE links requirements of products with requirements of services.
- All products with the QUALITY OFFICE-label are generally GS-approved.
Who benefits from QUALITY OFFICE?
QUALITY OFFICE is a guidance for everyone, who is setting up new offices or wants to optimize existing offices.
What are the objectives of QUALITY OFFICE?
The requirements for office work are constantly rising. For this reason, the correct planning and equipping of offices is not only about functionality and safety, but also about motivation and health of the people, who will work in the offices to be designed.
Equipping and furnishing offices is therefore a complex task. Those who will master this task can draw on a large number of recommendations and quality marks. Still missing was a guideline that provides a thorough aid to orientation for choosing the right office furniture products and service providers.
To fill the gap, the
- DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (German Institute for Standardization),
- VBG – Ihre gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (Your statutory accident insurance),
- bso Verband Büro-, Sitz- und Objektmöbel e.V. (Association of Office, Seating and Office Facility Furniture),
- BAuA Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and the
- INQA-Büro Deutsches Netzwerk Büro e.V.(German Office Network)
first developed the guideline Quality Criteria for Office Workplaces in 2006. It was published under the title "Guideline – L-Q 01-06" and was since then the basis for awarding the QUALITY OFFICE certification mark.
Further development of the Guideline
Four years after first publishing the guideline its editors have revised the quality criteria for office workplaces and adjusted to the changing requirements of office work. Under the title Guideline L-Q 2010 the basis for the QUALITY OFFICE-certification of office furniture was supplemented by additional capability characteristics.
Simultaneously a basis for the certification of qualified consultants and office furniture retailers was established. As from 2011 on the QUALITY OFFICE-certification will be also available for them.