Penniman & Browne, Inc. is an independent, civil engineering, consulting and laboratory testing firm. For more than a century, Penniman & Browne has built a reputation on the accuracy and dependability of its data. To maintain this reputation, Penniman & Browne employs stringent quality control procedures.
The purpose of our Quality Control Program is to ensure that our clients' testing needs are being performed in a consistent, accurate, and precise manner. Our Quality Control Manual (QCM), which is reviewed and updated annually, outlines the procedures that ensure the quality of our work and the standards that our clients and accrediting entities require. The QCM is the fundamental document of our company. It is the document that guides our employees' activities. Adherence to it is not only company policy – it is part of our mission.
Penniman & Browne provides services that can affect the health and safety of our customers, company, and community. As a responsible member of the community – and so our clients can count on our data – Penniman & Browne adheres to the strictest ethical standards. We require that each employee:
- support our clients in a legal and ethical manner, by providing the most accurate laboratory and field data possible;
- produce data using the highest standards for all laboratory and field analysis;
- assist our clients with understanding and support in all legal manner necessary to complete the task for which our assistance has been solicited;
- provide a safe and pleasant work environment.
Penniman & Browne has a strict confidentiality program. It is our policy that each piece of data – from its point of origin to its storage – be handled with exacting confidentiality. To assure this confidentiality, Penniman & Browne:
- stores all data in a manner that keeps information confidential and that will not compromise the integrity of the data;
- provides data only to our clients, unless they provide authorization to release such information.
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