The Value of a Sanity Test or Sanity Check
The idea of a Sanity Test or Sanity Check is to allow the person who has prepared the information to step back from it to think about how someone who is presented with it for the first time will make…
Considering the Environment, and Why Making a Change Improves the Wellbeing of Your Business and Yourself.
For many years now, there has been a heavy focus on the environment, and quite rightly too. We constantly see in the news about the ice caps, trees, flooding, solar panels and a whole list of things. In fact, should…
Shared Office Space: An ISO 27001 Approach
For a variety of commercial and operation reasons, office space can be shared between more than one organisation. This is particularly prominent in the tech start up culture, where ideas can be shared. However, when operating an Information Security Management…
Light Pollution: will reducing it save our birds and improve our driving?
Around 3am this morning I was woken by two things: firstly, the delivery lorries arriving at the shops across the street and secondly a chorus of birdsong that lasted nearly an hour. Only one of these occurrences is out of…
Looking ahead to a Successful 2014
The signs seem to pointing towards a recovering UK economy and that is certainly what we are seeing as we go about our business around the UK. The clients we have been working with this year are doing some genuinely…
Nottingham Focus for Assent Risk Management
The Nottingham region is providing some exciting prospects for Risk Management firm Assent, as its diverse business community look towards ISO standards to help them develop. From Software Developers to Manufacturers, the East Midlands is benefiting from Management Systems in areas…
Wind turbines on UK farms could ease food and energy problems.
Experts have suggested that if farms were to accommodate renewable energy resources, our clean energy and food-price-hike problems could be dramatically reduced. Trade association Renewable UK, online energy community Energyshare and food business River Cottage organised a conference at the…
Building Collaborative Business Relationships
2017 UPDATE: BS11000 has become ISO 44001. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford. It can be argued that the great achievements in human history have come from working together, and the…
6 Tips for Fast & Efficient ISO Implementation
Sometimes our clients are on a very tight deadline to meet the requirements of ISO standards and achieve certification. Here are 6 tips for efficient management system implementation. 1. Be Clear on the Scope Define and document which processes and…
