New legislation is expected to replace the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46 and reduce the bureaucratic burden on organisations, while increasing responsibility to protect data, acknowledge and report data breaches. There will also be stiffer penalties for companies that do…
The Energy Act 2011 includes provision for the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) ‘Green Deal’, a scheme intended to reduce carbon emissions by revolutionising the energy efficiency of British Properties. Under the Green Deal, there will be no…
The area of East London dubbed as Tech City is rich in technology start ups who could benefit from the efficiencies and credibility an ISO management system would bring. All around Shoreditch and the Silicon Roundabout on Old Street, there…
The International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) has made some revisions to the Aerospace AS 9100, 9110 and 9120 series of standards. Key changes to the standards include: • broadening the scope to cover Aviation, Space & Defence. • greater emphasis…
ISO/IEC 27035:2011 provides best practice guidance for information security incident detection, reporting and management. The ISO standard aims to help organisations reduce the impact of I.T security threats by implementing the defined incident management approach. Although Incident management is addressed…
Auditing is an important part of maintaining a management system, so be sure that your auditors’ programme is effective for your business. Here we take a look at our own audit programmes and the best practises we apply. Guidelines for Auditing…
The recent blackberry outage saw several days pass before services to affected smartphones return to normal and it serves as a good reminder of the inter-dependent world we live and work in. Many businesses are left asking ‘where’ in the…
It is common practice for Organisations to develop and implement a health, safety and environmental management system. The driving force is to put the organisation in a frontal position in tendering for contracts and for managing contractors, suppliers etc. in…
In June 2011 ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) launched an International Standard for Energy Management, ISO 50001:2011. The standard uses the same plan, do, check, act model as other management systems and aligns with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Requirements of…
