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LRQA launches Food Sector Video for GFSI Conference

16th Feb 2011 by Alex Briggs

With the opening of the world’s most important food safety conference, The Global Food Safety Conference, LRQA has launched a food sector video.

In the video, Cor Groenveld, LRQA’s global food expert, Mark Overland, Cargill’s Global Director, Certification and Mike James, LRQA’s Managing Director talk about the benefits of taking a process-based management systems approach to addressing risks across the food supply chain.

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LRQA Business Assurance launches new “What is?” video series

30th Nov 2010

LRQA Business Assurance today launched a new series of short videos that answer the most relevant questions regarding management systems, organisational risk management, certification, independent assurance, organisational resilience and climate change verification, validation and carbon footprinting.The series starts with six short videos from Paul Smith. See the video series on YouTube! or Vimeo. You can follow LRQA Business Assurance for updates and Climate Change news on Twitter @LRQA_CC_CSR.

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LRQA Business Assurance at work – LINPAC PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 3

30th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 3 in the LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with Mike Hill of Sustain.

Hill stated: “PAS 2050 gives a good basis to work from but until an organisation gets the results verified, there will always be those who doubt the process.”

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LRQA Business Assurance at work – LINPAC PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 2

20th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 2 in the LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with LRQA Climate Change Manager, Paul Smith.

Paul Smith said: “As more companies follow LINPAC Allibert’s lead, environmental performance will be enhanced and verified product carbon footprint data will become an increasingly important factor in both domestic and commercial purchasing decisions.”

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CEO’s and Sustainability

14th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

A new study by Accenture in Sustainability Magazine shows that 93% of global corporation CEO’s believe that sustainability will be critical to their future success, 78% say that sustainability is now viewed as a source of revenue growth and 72% said that stakeholder education is critical.

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LRQA Business Assurance at work – LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 1

10th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 1 in the LINPAC_LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with Simon Mendes of LINPAC Allibert.

Commenting on the benefits of being verified to the PAS 2050 specification, Simon said: “Internally, the process has helped us to identify and improve performance along the supply chain. Externally, LRQA verification delivers confidence and trust in the data so that we can now help customers to achieve their own environmental targets.”

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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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PDS achieve ISO 9001 and EN 1433:2002 – Case Study

30th Apr 2010

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.

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LRQA Trust and Transparency Podcast Series

19th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs

This page contains all 10 episodes of the LRQA Trust and Transparency Podcast Series, which included 5 audio and 5 video episodes, as well as the “What Assures Consumers in an Economic Report.” The report was launched in April, 2009 and this podcast series is a result of that report and a series of interviews that were conducted during the launch of the report.

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