Policies & Procedures Development

Why SOP’s are important for a business?

Standard operating procedures or SOP, is a set of instructions prepared by an organisation to standardise procedures and complex tasks. The benefits include:

• Consistency and quality control
• Increased productivity
• Predictable output
• Reduced cost since process development forces management to evaluate each process in isolation as well in conjunction with other processes
• Less time spent on training
• Enabling workers to clearly understand how to perform certain tasks
• Makes employee performance evaluation simplified
• Makes roles and responsibilities assignment easy and accurate
• Helps establishing safe working practices easy
• Enables organisations demonstrate application of work related regulations
• With proper quality control measures, audit trail of standardised processes is created

When do you need it?

Existence of SOPs provide regulators, lenders, investors, employees and stakeholders the confidence into the affairs of the business. So if you:

• are looking to bring efficiencies and increase productivity
• want to reduce cost
• are applying to the regulator for certain license
• are seeking investors for your business
• want to increase reputation as an employer

You need proper SOPs for your business !