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Keeping Your Standards COVID Safe
Let’s start with a question. During lockdown, did your external ISO accreditation body allow you not to be externally audited? Of course not. So, continuous assessment audits had to remain. Were you prepared? Did you find remote audits easy? Were you able to pull...
The Benefits of a Compliance Management System using HSG 65
Legislation is one of the most important instruments of government in organising society and protecting citizens. It determines amongst others the rights and responsibilities of individuals and authorities to whom the legislation applies. By using HSG 65 as a...
Big Businesses Face Mandatory Digital Modern Slavery Reporting
The UK Government has made the first major changes to the Modern Slavery Act since its introduction in 2015, extending requirements to public bodies including local authorities and tightening rules for big businesses. Some report suggest that business compliance with...
Homeworking. The New Normal?
So, have you been temporary home working like at least 60% of the UK workforce during lockdown? The benefits of working at home have only just hit the Victorian Employers (no pun intended!) and the old way of “you have to be at work to be at work” have been eroded....
Help Opening Your Business After Covid-19
The government has announced that it will shortly publishing its roadmap out of the lockdown. Many business organisations are commenting on the discussion documents and have raised concerns about the lack of safety advice for businesses. While it’s possible that many...
Remote Audits are happening, but are they the future?
At the Compliance Standard Group, we have been working with clients remotely during this challenging time and the new normal regarding ISO Standards is fast becoming remote auditing. At least two clients have conducted Environmental and Quality continuous audits with...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Issues New Guidance on When Incidents of Coronavirus Should be Reported
The HSE has issued new guidance and clarifies where incidents of coronavirus should be reported under RIDDOR, see the information on the HSE website at - RIDDOR reporting of COVIS-19 An overview of the guidance from HSE states, ‘you must only make a report under...
Coronavirus: A joint statement between HSE, the TUC and the CBI – 3 April 2020
The following statement was issued by the HSE via press release on their website, we would encourage all employers to read the statement below and ensure that they are following it. ‘This is an extremely worrying time for firms and workers. We know many workers;...
PPD Safety Training is now part of the Compliance Standard Group
PPD Safety Training is now part of the Compliance Standard Group. Gloucestershire based PPD Safety Training has provided training to hundreds of businesses and individuals across the country over the past two decades. PPD was established in 2002 when founder Dave...
The Future of Sustainable Buildings – Time, Space & Cost
Sustainable construction practices are needed right here, right now. It may be news to the you that the construction industry, together with the materials industries that support it, is one of the major global consumers of natural resources, both physical and...