World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a vital awareness-raising campaign from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that takes place annually on the 28th April. Marking a commemorative date, the World Day for Safety and Health at Work shares the day with the international Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide […]

Restore Our Earth! April 22nd is the annual Earth Day celebration, encouraging us to take action for environmental and climate change. From workshops and panels to petitions and campaigns, see how you can get involved to learn, support and take action on this Earth Day.

Today is World Earth Hour, where individuals and organisations across the world will be switching off their lights for an hour of solidarity to raise awareness for climate change and the loss of nature. Join as we switch off for an hour at 8.30pm with our favourite suggestions for a lights out evening.

Today is Global Recycling Day, are you a Recycling Hero?

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2020 has been an interesting year to say the least, I think we can mostly agree we never really expected to be attending virtual certification audit, or doing internal audits in our PJs. There are lots of video conferencing tools, but none seem to have become as ubiquitous as zoom. “To Zoom” has now become […]

Why do we manage health and safety hazards? Why do we reduce our environmental impacts? Why do we minimise the cost of poor quality? Why are we doing what we are doing?  The first three are easier to answer, we manage health and safety hazards to reduce the likelihood of people being hurt, we reduce […]

He’s checking his list, he’s checking it twice… If only compliance checking was as simple as “naughty” or “nice”! Management systems exist to drive continual improvement in an organisation, but all too often system processes, management control documentation and audits of the system itself are approached as a check-box exercise- an overly prescriptive and binary […]

Most of us think of waste in terms of materials that are no longer required, and have no other purpose. In this day and age, waste is so much more. Across the suite of ISO standards waste crops up as a consideration not just in ISO14001. Waste can be a fascinating subject and can be […]