Only one in three Americans feels the food they buy is safe
– 10th Mar 2010
Washington-based Make Our Food Safe sites a CBS News series poll that found only one in three Americans feels the food they buy is safe.
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Canada Adopts ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
– 5th Mar 2010
Canada has adopted the ISO 31000 Risk Management standard, CSA Standards announced February 4th 2010.
What is Business Assurance?
– 12th Jan 2010
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?
– 15th Dec 2009
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
– 20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs
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.
Acountability embarks on revision of its Internationally accepted stakeholder engagement standard
– 7th Oct 2009
AccountAbility, the global not-for-profit standards developer is revising its AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement standard (AA1000SES) the world’s first international stakeholder engagement standard. View the video and get have your say and get involved on the state-of-the-art interactive web-based wiki platform.
Business Assurance in an Economic Downturn - Robert DuPuy Podcast
– 22nd Jul 2009 by Alex Briggs
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
– 13th Jul 2009 by Alex Briggs
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
– 8th Jul 2009 by Alex Briggs
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.”
Verification Program Manual - a standardised approach for independent and rigorous verification of GHG emissions
– 24th Jun 2009
The Climate Action Reserve has released the final version of the Verification Program Manual. This document provides verification bodies with a standardized approach for the independent and rigorous verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and removals.
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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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