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What is Business Assurance? Blogs

Health & Safety and Environmental Compliance Climb the Corporate Agenda

24th Jun 2010 by Alex Briggs

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 [...]

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What can LRQA Business Assurance do for you?

25th May 2010 by Alex Briggs

The aim of LRQA Business Assurance is to ensure clients:
- have the capability to deliver on the promises you make, enhancing your reputation, creating confidence in your capabilities, helping you to substantiate claims and differentiate yourself
- see the tangible benefits of the value of management systems, linking these benefits to financial performance or improvements in effectiveness and efficiency
- develop your capability to manage a range of non-financial risks
• feel confident that management systems are meeting stakeholder needs and that you are getting a return on your investment.

Find out more about Business Assurance here

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LRQA Business Assurance Quote of the Day, May 25, 2010

25th May 2010 by Alex Briggs

This quote is taken from the recent Just off the Starting Blocks – Benchmarking Sustainability and Carbon Assurance in the FTSE 350 report:

Verified data is the only credible way to assess whether we are lowering our emissions and meeting our targets as a country.

Ben Murray, managing director
Carbon Smart

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Trust and Transparency – the new consumer buzzwords?

26th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs

The 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer is out, and the results show that consumers want independent verification of corporate claims.

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Food Safety and Business Assurance

18th Feb 2010

“Recently, a food manufacturing client asked me why they needed a FSSC 22000 management system certification and Business Assurance from LRQA. The conversation was all about “what could a certified management system approach offer that a checklist approach could not?” Read the full blog!

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