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Increase your sales with ISO 9001
There’s no doubt about the competitive nature of business, marketing and advertising bombard us constantly, but increasing sales isn’t just about marketing and advertising, it’s not even about having a great product or service. Despite the internet, AI and the...
Carbon Reduction Plans and “Residual Emissions”
The UK Government has begun asking UK companies to provide Carbon Reduction Plans with new tenders over a certain value. They’ve also provided a template for such plans, and a service to review them for suitability, though they don’t seem to want to say how much the...
Earth’s Destruction, One Device at a Time
I bought an iPad for my wife. At the time, you couldn’t play Candy-Crush on an Apple device, so it lay in our bedroom untouched for months. Eventually, I took pity on it, loaded up Kindle, and it became my portable Library. It worked well, had a good enough battery...
Carbon Neutrality – does anybody really know what they are producing?
In November 2021 Boris Johnson made much publicity by hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26). The incompetence of governments and politicians is hardly new, but due to the serious nature of the current situation I am staggered by the level of incompetence...
ISO 27001 2022 – The best way to get the change done
Early in 2024, now only a few months away, you won’t be able to have your information security system certified to ISO 27001, 2013. Early in 2025, if you have a certification to ISO 27001, 2013 you’ll have to update your systems to the new 2022 version.So how are you...
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...
Leading Change and Improvement
Having been involved in Quality and Compliance since the early 80’s I sometimes wonder why we still get bad products and services, despite ISO 9001 et al. One of the issues is definitely weak and inconsistent auditing from certification bodies. But I have a feeling...
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...