Contractor Management Contractor Management is concerned with ensuring that when you hire a contractor to undertake work on your behalf, health and safety issues are properly managed in terms of how they affect the contractor’s employees as well as your own. Organizations have a responsibility for the welfare of all those people who do work [...]
What is a Stage 1 Assessment? The stage 1 audit requirement has been in place for around 8 years now, it came in as a mandatory requirement with ISO 17021 in 2011 although it was a requirement for ISO 14001 assessments before then. The stage 1 assessment can be a useful process for organisations [...]
AUVA Certification is to host a workshop on the impact of Brexit in the certification industry and businesses with UKAS in attendance. I am sure we will all agree that none of us knows exactly how Brexit will impact on businesses. I can not think of a sector that will not be impacted in one [...]
A lot of organisations are not clear on what is the purpose of an ISO Certification reassessment (sometimes referred to a recertification audit). A reassessment will occur every 3 years and you will notice that the time required will be more than a surveillance visit for a number of reasons. To give you an insight [...]
