Why Small Businesses Should Consider ISO in 2020
In 2020, ISO's offer small businesses a raft of benefits. In a competitive marketplace and amidst the global coronavirus crisis, meeting industry standards across the board is essential for a successful business. If you’re toying with the idea of meeting ISO standards, read on to learn just a few [...]
How to Develop an Effective Health and Safety Management System
About Health and Safety Management System Health and Safety Management System refers to initiatives that are designed to decrease risks associated with work activities and actions at the worksite. The efficient system will be one that minimises the chances of incidents and illnesses in any organisation. The attitude and [...]
The Importance of ISO 17025 Calibration
What is ISO 17025? ISO 17025 is an internationally recognized standard used mainly by testing and calibration laboratories. Basically, when a laboratory is accredited to ISO 17025, it demonstrates competence and ensure accuracy of results for their clients. The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) states that ISO 17025 calibration [...]
How to Implement an Efficient Integrated Management System
The integration of management systems provides great advantages, such as optimising and reducing resources, reducing time spent managing the system itself, simplifying and reducing documents and more efficient management of operations. This article provides some keys to successfully integrating Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems into [...]
Ensuring Compliance with ISO 27001 Requirements
ISO 27001 is best explained as a means that allows a business entity to develop its information security position as a whole. It is an international recognised standard for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). Basically, ISMS is an organised way with the goal of supervising an organisation’s information [...]
Benefits of Outsourcing Your ISO Internal Audit Function
More and more companies chose to use international recognised standards to implement and certify their management system. Some of the more popular ones are ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental), ISO 27001 (Information Security) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety). All of these require to develop an internal [...]