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This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been prepared by BSI to specify requirements for assessing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of goods and services. The development of this PAS was co-sponsored by the Carbon Trust and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
What is PAS 2050?
PAS 2050 provides a consistent method […]
The Code of Good Practice for product greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction claims has been developed by the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust to promote the reduction of product life cycle GHG emissions.
While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product carbon footprint, this guide, ‘Guide to PAS 2050′, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance.
TNT UK/Ireland and their use of ISO 14001 as the key to their overall environmental strategy was the focus of a Sustainable Business Magazine article in the October edition.
TNT uses management systems to underpin their business, currently holding four certifications in the UK/Ireland: ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) and Investors in People. TNT has reported significant competitive advantage from the achievement of verifiable environmental performance.
Neil Griffiths, director of health, safety and environment at TNT Express Services says: “In terms of business assurance, this is not just a tick in the box.”
World Food Day 2008 addresses what has been categorised by many as one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and its impact on food security.
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BS25999 is a standard that establishes the process, principles and terminology of business continuity management.
Business Continuity Glossary
What Is Business Continuity Management
The Business Continuity Management Policy
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BS25999 Certification
BS25999 Part 2 is a Specification, not a Code of Practice like Part 1. So what is the difference?
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Chris Harrop, Group Marketing Director for Marshalls in the UK is on the cutting edge of CSR, ethical supply chain initiatives, carbon labelling, workers rights and stakeholder engagement. Chris talked to us during the recent Ethical Supply Chain Summit in Berlin.
Chris shares his thoughts on some of the key topics that are facing global brands today, with the conversation ranging from competitive advantage for businesses embedding CSR as part of their business practice to Marshalls work with the Carbon Trust in becoming the first brand to carbon label their entire product range.
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Set up by experts from the Oregon state department of agriculture, the China-US Peace Food Inspection Centre will offer third party sampling, testing and certification of agricultural and fishery products so that they meet standards required by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The proposed accounting standard seeks to modify the rules currently governing loss contingencies, including the disclosure of the costs of ongoing environmental litigation and pending unsettled lawsuits
A survey just released by eyefortransport tells us what for most green-minded professionals seems obvious: High fuel prices are causing the country’s manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers to rethink their transportation strategies.
The British Contract Furnishing & Design Association is aiming to set a benchmark in environmental standards with a new code of best practice which includes looking at ISO 14001.
This final period of consultation runs until September 12th after which the Technical Committee will again review all comments and finalise the Standard for the global launch on October 24th.
Thirty-five new international food standards were adopted during last week’s 31st session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, including guidelines on the use of flavourings and gluten-free products.
This Retail Bulletin article discusses the results of a recently published survey on supply chain issues. According to the 100 UK supply chain professionals surveyed, supply chain managers spend up to 52 days a year keeping abreast of, and complying with regulation and legislation relating to the supply chain.
The research found 84 per cent spend up to 52 days a year on compliance while 16 per cent claim even more time. More than half (58 per cent) claim to be either concerned or very concerned about operating in an increasingly regulated environment.
More than three quarters of consumers want higher environmental product standards from government
Check-out Carbon, published by sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, also reveals that 77 per cent of consumers want the government to set higher environmental product standards.
It has been developed to provide a much needed, clear and robust definition of good practice that can be used to judge an organisation’s commitment to and achievement of carbon reduction.
BT meets security control requirements - and shows a high level of security governance, especially in the area of risk management
The global sourcing of ingredients and products along with recent factory recalls has led to increased calls from consumers for more rigorous safety programmes and close monitoring of suppliers
This podcast is episode two of a three part series. The series is made up of interviews with Professor Richard Wilding from Cranfield University, one of Europe’s top supply chain management experts.
This is a four piece article written by Bretta Kelly, President CIS WWSG, that describes a common sense approach of how to implement or revise an ISO 9001:2000 management system.
The European Commission has announced a pilot program, to examine the changes that will result form the adoption of the Medical Devices Directive.
Some of the hottest new electronic devices are being found to contain factory pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, send spam and perform other nefarious tasks that make the systems easy targets for hackers.
The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.
When the new Machinery Directive comes into force at the end of 2009 there will be a requirement that fixings for fixed guards must be retained when the guard is removed.
LRQA will be present at the event with a stand and Cor Groenveld will deliver a presentation on the subject “Food Standards: current situation and future developments”. This presentation will not only cover food safety and quality, but also sustainability, security and supply chain assurance.
“In today’s Quality Management systems, the ability to control and correct processes is key to maintaining a high level of compliance within an organization”, says pharmaceuticalonline.com.
ISO publish new standard for the financial services industry that stipulates the security requirements for the implementation and management of biometric authentication technology.
In this podcast, Neville Hobson interviews Simon Emeny, Product Conformity Manager at Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).
Neville asks how EU directives affect people and their daily lives — both personal and business. Simon also talks about the CE mark, and the role of quality certification and verification.
The UK FSA is set to discuss a report on food safety issues at their next meeting.
The report includes progress made in certain areas of food safety, while raising a red flag concerning foodbourne illnesses.
A clean air supply is essential to our own health and that of the environment. The EC website provides full details about the EU Air policies currently in place.
In the context of its global goal of improving safety in transport, the European Union has issued in 1999 the Directive 1999/36/EC to enhance safety with regard to transportable pressure equipment approved for the inland transport of dangerous goods by road and by rail.
The Asylum Procedures Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005, on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status) is one of the four building blocks of the first stage of the Common European Asylum System.
The ISO 28000 series of standards on supply chain security management systems, which have just been upgraded from their status of Publicly Available Specifications to that of fully fledged International Standards, will help to reduce risks to people and cargo within the supply chain.
The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is an association of security professionals and related business partners from various high technology manufacturing and transportation companies who have come together for the purpose of addressing the emerging security threats that are common to the relevant industries. The TAPA EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) brochure contains relevant information on the organisation, the TAPA FSR Standard and a list of the members and associate members.
Reducing the risks and adverse consequences of floods in the European Union is the aim of the new directive on flood risk management came into force in November 2007.
From this site you can download the complete VCS 2007 documentation, including the standard specification and Project Description templates.
Dr Anne-Marie Warris, who wrote VCS 2007, talks about the impacts it will have in the carbon offset market, and outlines its evolution over the last 18 months.
The AEO guide which explains the benefits that an AEO Certificate can bring you, who can apply for one, criteria you have to meet to be eligible, and how to apply.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
September 2007 GFSI Technical Committee Position Paper on ISO 22000
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) created the global standard - food to establish a single common standard for the evaluation of companies supplying retailer branded foods. It has been developed to assist retailers in fulfilling legal obligations and to ensure the highest level of client protection. Although developed in the UK, the standard is acknowledged […]
This is an international standard for Food Safety Management Systems where an organization in the food chain needs to manage food safety hazards and risks in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. Clients will be confident when they see that you have it and large food producers are […]
The standard which provides a systematic approach to identifying hazards, and then either eliminating the hazards or reducing their risks.
The AA1000AS 2nd edition will be the world’s first mainstream corporate accountability standard to be developed using a collaborative wiki process.
The internationally recognised quality management system standard, that gives you improved product, process and service quality and can increase customer satisfaction leve
ISO 14000 is a family of international management standards (includes ISO 14001) concerned with environmental management.
They encompass what an organisation does to minimise harmful environmental effects of its activities, and require continuous improvement of environmental performance.
A report released by the World Bank yesterday at CarbonExpo in Germany announced that the global carbon offset market has tripled over the past year to $30bn. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme accounted for $25bn of this total.
The new standard, ISO 14065:2007, ‘Greenhouse gases - Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition’, complements the previous standard.
“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”
So says this piece from China Business News.
I attended a standards writing meeting this week - yawn you may say - but actually it was very interesting (in parts). The meeting was about a new standard BS8901 which is about Sustainable Events Management.
Research conducted by Monash University’s Australian Supply Chain Management Research Unit and supported by JAS-ANZ, the government appointed accreditation body for Australia and New Zealand, explores the transition from ISO 9000:1994 to ISO 9000:2000.
In June 2006 the “International Railway Industry Standard” was published. This standard is promoted by UNIFE but is primarily aimed at suppliers to the 4 major European train builders.
In his report on the Lloyd’s Register Group annual accounts, David Moorhouse neatly sums up the concept of business assurance.
A major, independent study into the effects of ISO 9000 has found that organisations experience ’strongly significant abnormal improvements in financial performance’ after deciding to seek certification.
Vietnam has carried out a review of all of its 8000 quality standards, and discovered that just 27% meet the specification of their global equivalents.
According to a leading research analyst Bell Potter, reported in The Age, revisions to Accounting Standards have made it more difficult to analyse company performance.
The Clinton Global Initiative is emerging as a purposeful counterpoint to WEF in influencing the operating models of international development.
The Annual gathering this week (20-22 September) is expected to yield a number of new commitments to alleviate poverty and ill-health, but which will actually work.
Egyptian call centre pioneer Xceed has achieved accreditation for environmental (ISO 14001) as well as health and safety compliance (OHSAS 18001).
According to the OECD, quality is less and less an issue for Chinese manufacturers. China now produces 55% of the world’s laptop computers; 60% of air conditioners and 70% of DVD players. It also produces 30% of all flat-screen televisions and 20% of microprocessors.
Jenny McCartney of the UK’s Daily Telegraph has drawn attention to the chasm emerging between ‘trivial’ health and safety concerns, and the ‘profound’ safety issues prevailing in developing countries, or when individuals are effectively compelled to take inappropriate risks.
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