Intercede achieves top industry standard
Intercede Limited has been approved by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) to ISO 9001 with TickIT Guide Issue 5 management system standards.
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ISO video shows how standards play a vital role in everyday lives
This great video from ISO shows you how the variety of global standards contribute to the smooth running of our daily lives as people, businesses and governments.
Health & Safety and Environmental Compliance Climb the Corporate Agenda
Health & Safety Managers are increasingly seeing Environmental Management (EM) duties becoming a part of their role. The National Examination Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH) carried out research on UK Health & Safety managers and found that over 40% of them now have EM included in their role profile. “We’ve seen a dramatic [...]
What is Business Assurance?
Business Assurance was developed and implemented by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. Independent research highlighted the changing needs of organisations and their views on what the certification industry should deliver. That research was the beginning of LRQA’s Business Assurance.
LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.
New ISO 9001:2008 Standard Published – what does it mean to you?
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.
Measuring Organisational Carbon Footprint, ISO 14064
ISO 14064: an emerging standard on Greenhouse Gas
accounting and verification is the title of a working paper on ISO’s latest GHG standard. The paper from Kevin Boehmer, Canadian Standards Association and
Secretary for the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change and
Aleg Cherp, ECOLOGIA and Central European University
Budapest and an expert on the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change, takes a closer look at the development of ISO 14064, the voluntary standard for organisations looking to measure and report on their organisation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Business Assurance in an Economic Downturn – Robert DuPuy Podcast
The latest LRQA Business Assurance interview features Robert DuPuy, the Head of Sales and Training for Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, Inc. (LRQA). In this interview, Robert talks about some of the key issues that organisations are facing during difficult economic times. He talks about management systems, the characteristics of a good management system and the importance of having accredited independent third party certification of management systems.
LRQA Food Safety Webinar, Parts 5-8 Video Files
The recent LRQA Food Safety Webinar is now available in smaller segments, starting with the opening session, “Food Safety Issue and Standards” being broken down into 8 individual video files. This post contains 5-8. Click on any of the images below to view that section of the webinar. Here is also the link to sections 1-4 .
LRQA Food Safety Webinar now available
The July 1st Food Safety Webinar from LRQA is now available for listening, viewing and downloading.
The entire session is available as a recorded Webex here.
You can also view the webinar in parts with each of the sections being uploaded individually. The first sections will be uploaded tomorrow, covering all of the opening session, “Food Safety Issues and Standards.”
Business Assurance Thought of the Day, June 22, 2009 – Dubai and ISO 10002
Increasingly, organisations are communicating their third party certification as a competitive advantage and as proof of improved stakeholder engagement. The recent communications of two Dubai organisations is a case in point.
DP World and Dubai Customs are both promoting their recent ISO 10002 (Customer Complaints) certification. Both organisations were certified by LRQA.
Management Systems in Not-for-Profit Sector
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.
LRQA Management Systems Audio Podcast Episode 1
Sandy Sutherland is widely recognised as one of the pioneers of Quality Management Systems. He was a part of the team that developed 9001, and currently chairs the drafting group for OHSAS 18001, the Health and Safety Management System standard. In the latest episode of our Management Systems Podcast Series, he talked to www.businessassurance.com about the importance of robust management systems to help organisations survive the current economic downturn.
A new international standard for traceability
ISO 22005 is the new international standard for traceability in the food and feed supply chain. Traceability is a must throughout the whole feed and food supply chain, in particular as a part of the emergency management process when quality or food safety problems with raw materials or finished products occur. When an organisation is able to rapidly trace back ingredients or finished products, risks and costs involved with quality and food safety defects will be reduced. The standard is part of the ISO 22000 family and it provides tools to implement an effective traceability system as part of a food safety / quality management system.
PAS 2050 Specification
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 [...]
PAS 2050 – Code of Good Practice for product GHG emissions and reduction claims
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.
Guide to PAS 2050 – How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services
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.
TNT cites ISO 14001 as key to Environmental Performance
TNT UK/Ireland and their use of ISO 14001 as the key to their overall environmental strategy was the focus of a Sustainable Business Magazine article in the October edition.
TNT uses management systems to underpin their business, currently holding four certifications in the UK/Ireland: ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) and Investors in People. TNT has reported significant competitive advantage from the achievement of verifiable environmental performance.
Neil Griffiths, director of health, safety and environment at TNT Express Services says: “In terms of business assurance, this is not just a tick in the box.”
ISO standards contribute to meeting World Food Day 2008 challenge
World Food Day 2008 addresses what has been categorised by many as one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and its impact on food security.
BCFA creates code of best practice
The British Contract Furnishing & Design Association is aiming to set a benchmark in environmental standards with a new code of best practice which includes looking at ISO 14001.
Compliance driving Global Supply Chains?
This Retail Bulletin article discusses the results of a recently published survey on supply chain issues. According to the 100 UK supply chain professionals surveyed, supply chain managers spend up to 52 days a year keeping abreast of, and complying with regulation and legislation relating to the supply chain.
The research found 84 per cent spend up to 52 days a year on compliance while 16 per cent claim even more time. More than half (58 per cent) claim to be either concerned or very concerned about operating in an increasingly regulated environment.
ISO 9001 is not Rocket Science – Dispelling the “Myths” of ISO 9001
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.
TAPA Supply Chain Standard
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.
The YouTube! ISO14001 video
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.
Technical Committee Guide to ISO 22000
September 2007 GFSI Technical Committee Position Paper on ISO 22000
ISO 22000:2005
This is an international standard for Food Safety Management Systems where an organization in the food chain needs to manage food safety hazards and risks in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. Clients will be confident when they see that you have it and large food producers are [...]
OHSAS 18001
The standard which provides a systematic approach to identifying hazards, and then either eliminating the hazards or reducing their risks.
ISO 9001:2000
The internationally recognised quality management system standard, that gives you improved product, process and service quality and can increase customer satisfaction leve
ISO 14000
ISO 14000 is a family of international management standards (includes ISO 14001) concerned with environmental management.
They encompass what an organisation does to minimise harmful environmental effects of its activities, and require continuous improvement of environmental performance.
Time for a Chinese standards institute?
“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”
So says this piece from China Business News.
Sustainability and the 2012 Olympics
I attended a standards writing meeting this week – yawn you may say – but actually it was very interesting (in parts). The meeting was about a new standard BS8901 which is about Sustainable Events Management.
ISO 9000 in Australia – a comparison of the 1994 and 2000 versions
Research conducted by Monash University’s Australian Supply Chain Management Research Unit and supported by JAS-ANZ, the government appointed accreditation body for Australia and New Zealand, explores the transition from ISO 9000:1994 to ISO 9000:2000.
Is IRIS certification a good idea?
In June 2006 the “International Railway Industry Standard” was published. This standard is promoted by UNIFE but is primarily aimed at suppliers to the 4 major European train builders.
Management systems offer competitive benefits
A major, independent study into the effects of ISO 9000 has found that organisations experience ‘strongly significant abnormal improvements in financial performance’ after deciding to seek certification.
5840 standards fail to make the grade
Vietnam has carried out a review of all of its 8000 quality standards, and discovered that just 27% meet the specification of their global equivalents.
Standards proving counterproductive
According to a leading research analyst Bell Potter, reported in The Age, revisions to Accounting Standards have made it more difficult to analyse company performance.
China’s dominance increasingly based on quality
According to the OECD, quality is less and less an issue for Chinese manufacturers. China now produces 55% of the world’s laptop computers; 60% of air conditioners and 70% of DVD players. It also produces 30% of all flat-screen televisions and 20% of microprocessors.
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