Pinnacle Quality offers a range of sustainability and quality based business solutions.

We help businesses build on your sustainability system and identify commercial and competitive advantage, through our extensive knowledge of emerging high end sustainability standards and legislative requirements.

Systems and standards capabilities

  • Market driven standards like the Forestry Stewardship Council, Rain Forest Alliance, Marine Stewardship Council, Australian Forestry Standard, Rainforest Alliance TM
  • Sustainability strategies.
  • Emerging market standards like Water Stewardship and the Aluminium Sustainability Initiative.
  • Specific market standards like BonsucroTM for sugar.
  • Environmental systems and auditing.
  • Targeted stakeholder strategies.
  • Customer driven standards like Global Gap.
  • Chain of Custody systems for FSC/MSC
  • OHS systems (through specialist associates www.hypersafe.com.au)
  • Human Resources systems.
  • Technical trade access eg Phytosanitary systems.
  • Ethical trading issues and preparing for Ethical audits
  • Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012 due diligence systems
  • Modern slavery legislation (State and Federal) Due diligence system

Business Principles

Pinnacle Quality business principles can be viewed or downloaded here.

Publications

Exploring the value of water stewardship standards in Africa.
Hepworth N, Agol D, Von-Lehr S and O’Grady K, 2011. AWS Kenya Case study technical report:
Alliance for Water Stewardship / Marks and Spencer / GIZ.


FSC Guide To integrated pest, disease and weed management in FSC certified forests and plantations
Ian Willoughby, Carlos Wilcken, Philip Ivey, Kevin O’Grady and Frank Katto – April 2009