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The Roots of ISO 14001 (Part 2)

Douglas McMillan — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:14:40 +0000

As described in part 1 of this article, early legislation and attempts to curb air pollution were largely unsuccessful and a situation arose in post-war London where ‘pea soup’ fogs in colder winter months combined with the excess pollution that was a normal feature of daily life to create life-threatening smogs. Also known as a [...]

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The Roots of ISO 14001 (Part 1)

Douglas McMillan — Sat, 28 May 2016 23:57:35 +0000

Companies and organisations with environmental management systems certified to ISO 14001:2004 have until end 2018 to make the transition to the new 2015 version of the standard. ISO 14001:2015 introduces a number of substantive changes to make the standard more effective with an overall aim of ensuring certification achieves real environmental improvements and makes a [...]

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Seveso III and major accident hazards

Douglas McMillan — Sat, 28 May 2016 23:47:55 +0000

A new Directive on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances known as Seveso III was published on 24 July 2012 by the European Commission and has been implemented in the Irish legislature by the Chemicals Act (Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances) Regulations 2015. It amended and subsequently repealed the [...]

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A journey from ISO 9001 to ISO 17025 accreditation

Douglas McMillan — Sat, 28 May 2016 23:43:26 +0000

BioLogiQ helped Endoval to prepare for the upgrade of their Quality Management System from ISO 9001 to ISO 17025 to demonstrate the competency of their laboratory testing to their cutomers. Their INAB accreditation audit should be taking place in the coming months. Daniel Parra, Endoval’s Managing Director describes how this went for them. Why ISO [...]

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ISO 9001:2015 – A quick look at the “known knowns” and the “known unknowns”

Douglas McMillan — Sat, 28 May 2016 23:34:05 +0000

As well over 1 million organisations across the world await the latest version of the world’s most popular management system standard let’s ask ourselves what do we already know about the expected changes to the ISO 9001 standard and what won’t we know until the standard is published and implemented by organisations? The Process Approach, [...]

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Why save the forests?

Douglas McMillan — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:07:14 +0000

When I was a baby my parents used to put me to sleep in my pram and in fine weather would place it underneath a big cypress in my grandparents’ garden. Later they would come back to find me wide awake, probably having been so for a long time, not crying but quietly and contentedly [...]

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