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Fedele Cappiello, from Anra – Italy, was interviewed for the second of our “Young Risk Professionals” series. We invite you to join the group: on LinkedIn the top right hand corner, search Groups for ‘Young Risk Professionals’ or by visiting: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Young-Risk-Professionals-4086521 Fedele Cappiello – Young Risk Professional Interview View more presentations from FERMA Forum
Leopold Arios, from Amrae France, was interviewed about his career as a Risk professional. This is the first in a series of interviews surrounding the launch of the Young Risk Professional Programme supported by FERMA and LRQA. FERMA and LRQA have created the Young Risk Professionals Network, centred around a LinkedIn group. It is will [...]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday released their Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. A summary for policymakers is available here. The report concludes that 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by the middle of this century if it is backed by the [...]
The UNFCCC has recently produced and issued 12 audio files on the subject of the joint implementation (JI) mechanism. The audio files were prepared to raise the profile of JI and to help explain the mechanism in layman’s terms. The audio files include subjects such as: which countries can participate in JI, what methodologies can [...]
Case study from LRQA and PDS on PDS’s achievement of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard (Sept 2008) and 89/106/EEC Construction Products Directive to EN 1433:2002.
ISO have released some helpful information about how ISO 9001 relates to your supply chain: As someone who is involved in the selection of suppliers and. Possibly, responsible for purchasing decisions, you may have seen or used goods and services that are promoted using reference to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9001:2008, or, more simply, “ISO 9000”. [...]
Document from CarbonSmart where Alan Knight, AccountAbility, talks about best practice assurance and what are the questions companies should ask themselves for their next assurance engagement.
This FREE OnDemand Webcast provides 5 Tips suggested by LRQA field assessors that can help your organization maximize the benefits you should receive from your internal auditing program and your management system in general.
This on-demand webinar provides information on the new ISO 9001:2008 standard, including a brief of the changes from the 2000 version and how these changes may impact your management system.
The event succeeded in showing how important it is to follow appropriate supply chain security standards and how it can minimize the risk of potential losses. Download the presentations from the event.
Siingapore Zoo (part of WRS) is an example of a not-for-profit organisation in Asia that successfully deployed ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 to achieve its objectives.
New LRQA and TOMAL® Case study looks at how the Quality Management System (QMS) implemenetd by TOMAL with the support of LRQA’s Business Assurance approach helped them get through a difficult time.
A recent research report, comprising of interviews conducted by IBM, with over 1200 chief financial officers from 79 countries, concluded the following points mentioned in the article.
ASIS International (ASIS) have developed a business continuity checklist as a tool to allow organizations to consider the factors and steps necessary to prepare for a crisis (disaster or emergency). It is designed to assess an organisation’s resilience to manage and survive the crisis and take all appropriate actions to maintain critical operational viability.
The checklist has applicability in both the private and public sector environments. and can assist in creating, testing, and maintaining an organization-wide plan for use in the event of a crisis that threatens the viability and continuity of the organization.
This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been prepared by BSI to specify requirements for assessing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of goods and services. The development of this PAS was co-sponsored by the Carbon Trust and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). What is PAS 2050? PAS 2050 provides a [...]
The Code of Good Practice for product greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction claims has been developed by the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust to promote the reduction of product life cycle GHG emissions.
While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product carbon footprint, this guide, ‘Guide to PAS 2050′, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance.
These terms make it meaningful for companies disclosing any data and information rather than the scientific principles all the schemes use e.g. materiality, faithfulness, etc.
This report, commissioned by Unipart Logistics, aims to deepen the understanding of consumer supply chain drivers, logistics models and improvement initiatives.
This is a four piece article written by Bretta Kelly, President CIS WWSG, that describes a common sense approach of how to implement or revise an ISO 9001:2000 management system.
The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is an association of security professionals and related business partners from various high technology manufacturing and transportation companies who have come together for the purpose of addressing the emerging security threats that are common to the relevant industries. The TAPA EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) brochure contains relevant information on the organisation, the TAPA FSR Standard and a list of the members and associate members.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
September 2007 GFSI Technical Committee Position Paper on ISO 22000
This research, based on 350 depth interviews with international board directors and senior managers with overall responsibility for management systems, shows conclusively that senior management believes in the power of management systems.
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The Business Assurance approach uses a consistent methodology for providing business driven assessments based around the organisation’s most significant risks.
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