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ISO 17020: Delivering Reliable and Independent Inspection Services
We’ve all received goods or services which obviously haven’t been checked before they are provided, or if checked, that check wasn’t good enough to ensure that what was being delivered would meet our requirements.ISO 17020 is an international standard aimed at...
Guarding your business: keep your company legal, compliant and growing
Many governments have announced their intention to reduce “red tape” and bureaucracy, yet the growth in rules and regulations that an SME has to comply with continues to grow. Brexit promised a reduction of European involvement, but to date we are still committed to...
ISO 9001, ISO 14001 Certification: does the value exceed the cost?
Typically a small business, say 5 employees, single location, will need to invest about £5k plus some of their own time to gain certification against ISO 9001 – is it worth the investment? Here’s a few reasons why it may be.First, let me state I am not independent...
SME’s : Can you afford to ignore environmental concerns? How ISO 14001 can reduce the pain!
Surely there is no one left today who denies that environmental change is a real and growing challenge affecting survival on this planet? Government legislation gets tougher every year, and the drive for meeting the internationally agreed targets for environmental...
Information Security: Probable changes needed to your ISO 27001 system?
ISO 27001 is a management system information security standard, last updated in 2013. To those of you who, like me are getting on in years, this might seem like only yesterday but in technology terms that’s an age ago. As we’ve seen while helping businesses to gain...
Data Security and the role of ISO 27001 certification
Data Security? But we’ve got passwords and virus checking???? 2020 has been a difficult year in many ways, but some businesses seem to take a longer time to learn lessons than others. OK so we’re a bit geeky, had a PC in the very early nineties, remember when software...
What is the ISO 14001 standard?
What is the ISO 14001 standard? Lots of people ask this question. Is it a little too basic to ask? Not at all. I am an ISO consultant. I regularly find bad examples of ISO consulting. ISO certification should not be over-complex. Therefore, I will try and make things...
What is A Quality Management System?
ISO management system standards have been impacting on the UK business community for over 25 years. However, there remains an air of mystery around even the common standards like ISO 9001. Hence the question and the title of this blog. Google tells us that there are...
ISO 45001 Requirements. Before You Start, Some Basics…
ISO 45001 requirements. If you are here to find a list, some useful words, and fixed prices, you may be disappointed. However, if you want to share my “long view” of ISO 45001 requirements, then read on. I've been in this industry a while now. It's my conviction that...