About Cody Lawson
Founder, Ascendancy HazLoc · ISO 9001 and hazardous-location quality consultant
Hazardous-location and ISO 9001 quality experience
Cody Lawson has spent more than 25 years in intrinsically safe (IS) certified manufacturing, building intrinsically safe (Ex ia), ATEX- and IECEx-certified products in a certified facility.
He has 16+ years as the authorized person for hazardous-area certified products, including 12 consecutive years with zero audit findings.
That work means living by a quality system every day: controlled documents, traceable records, disciplined change control, and corrective actions that hold up to an auditor. Cody brings the same discipline to manufacturers of every size, with an approach that is practical, plain-spoken, and sized to the operation.
How Cody can help
- Building an ISO 9001 quality management system from inception
- ISO 9001:2026 gap assessments and transitions
- Internal and supplier audits
- Corrective action, 8D, and brown-paper root-cause events
- Work instructions and SOPs
- Intrinsic safety certification readiness (Ex ia) for ATEX and IECEx, including IECEx QAR / ATEX QAN audit preparation