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Professional Services company Assent has launched a new process using its Risk Assist Service Desk, to help customers keep up with management system tasks such as audits, reviews and tests. Maintaining a Management SystemThere are several reoccurring tasks that exist in…
RiskBriefing.co.uk – the Legal, Guidance & Compliance news site from Assent has launched a weekly Risk Digest service collating content from trusted sources around the web. The weekly post on www.riskbriefing.co.uk takes advantage of our team’s hard work to monitor news related…
The HWR (SI 2005/894) were amended on 1 April 2016 by SI 2016 This changes affect the entire hazardous waste control system and mean more than just a saving of £18 per annum. It results in a more inconsistent approach across…
Over the first weekend of April 2016 news began to emerge of another data leak. However this one seemed different, the media were already reporting it as the biggest data leak in history and there appeared to be implications for…
It has been eight years since the British Standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management (OHSAS 18001) was last revised.In the absence of an international standard, OHSAS 18001 has gained a strong position in the certification market both in the…
It could be said that UK businesses have long had a Love/Hate relationship with Europe. Many believe the regulations and directives from the European Union have increased the overhead of operating a business in the UK, with the compliance burdens…
EDIT Jan 2019: ISO 19650 was published in January 2019, replacing PAS 1192-2. As the UK Government’s BIM Mandate begins to take effect during 2016, companies in the construction supply chain are getting ready to demonstrate their working practices comply with the…
Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis and Evaluation have always been important within management systems such as ISO 9001, and the move towards ISO’s Annex SL has reinforced these requirements further. However, just as the ISO 9001 standard has adapted to cover services as…
