The Corrective and Preventative Action program of any Management System is where all of the work gets done. It focuses on the systematic investigation of the root causes of identified problems or identified risks in an attempt to prevent their recurrence (for…
Eve Environmental Services is a, wholly South Australian-owned and operated company, established in 1995. With nearly 50 years combined experience in cleaning, hygiene management, waste disposal and lawn and garden maintenance. Since it’s inception, the company has grown to become…
You have passed your Stage Two audit, and have been awarded certification. What should I do now? The temptation is always to put aside the management system that has taken up so much of your time and catch up…
ISO has just completed work to provide identical structure, text and common terms and definitions for management system standards of the future. This will ensure consistency among future and revised management system standards and make integrated use simpler. It will…
The Similarities ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 are management system standards. Management Both ISO system standards provide a model to follow in setting up and operating a management system. Both are generic standards which means that the same standard can…
ISO 9001:2008 is the International Standard for Quality management. Quality refers to all those features of a product (or service) which are required by the customer. Quality management means what the organization does to ensure that its products or services satisfy…
ISO 14001, one of ISO’s most successful management system standards, is shortly to undergo its second revision to ensure that it remains relevant over the next two decades. Since it was first published in 1996, ISO 14001:2004, Environmental management systems –…
The British Assessment Bureau asked respondents, all of which had ISO 9001 in place, whether they would recommend the standard to other organisations. Overall, 97% of organisations, spanning sole traders to companies on the FTSE 100, said they would recommend…
ISO 14001 calls for organisations to identify their significant impacts on the environment, however many businesses have little direct impact on the environment. The table below shows the environmental impacts from a typical service based business: It can be seen that even…
E n v i r o n m e n t a l A s p e c ts Features of a company’s operations, processes, activities, products, or services that can have an impact (positively or negatively) on the environment…