In March 2018, amidst the worst snowfalls the UK has yet seen, a keenly awaited new standard was published. ISO 45001:2018 is the world’s first International Standard for Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S), and replaces its British predecessor OHSAS 18001. Why the change? An international standard was needed, to address working conditions, workplace injury and […]
You’re a small business working your socks off to achieve ISO certification. And there’s just one thing now standing between you and it: an external audit. Yikes. The word ‘audit’ strikes fear into the souls of even the most hardened business people. But does it have to be that way? We think not. So, in […]
They are a bit like fruitcakes – traditionally turning up once a year, whether you like them or not. But employee reviews shouldn’t really be like this. And they needn’t be something that both employees and managers dread. So, how do we make employee reviews a little less fruitcake, and a lot more conversation? 1. […]
Bring two people together who don’t speak the same language and they are mutually incomprehensible. Little, if anything, can be achieved. But give them a common tongue – a lingua franca – and they can understand each other, negotiate, share ideas, trade, improve and innovate. This is exactly what ISO Standards do. They’re a set […]
What they say “We wanted to have confidence in the technology we used to help us achieve certification to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for the first time. The isCompliant system and support were exactly what we needed.” How we helped Having been at the forefront of plastic recycling for over 30 years, PTS say […]
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions”. Personally, we prefer a bacon butty, or perhaps a bowl of granola on a well-behaved day. But the guy who said it – a hugely successful author, speaker and businessman – makes a very good point. If you want to make it big in this life, you need feedback. […]
Over the course of our lifetime, we’ll lose 3,680 hours – or 153 days – just searching for lost things. If that’s happening at work, that’s a big dent in your bottom line. When you’re grafting, there seems to be no time to tidy up the office or discard as you go. But what if hoarding […]
This is Richard Nelson – Richie to his work colleagues. It’s a grimy Thursday morning in Slough, and Richie’s about to carry out a risk assessment in the garden centre where he works. He shrugs on his coat and lifts a clipboard. Peering up at the drizzle, Richie doesn’t feel particularly crucial to the welfare […]
In his bestselling book ‘Life Lessons from Space’ Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the exhaustive preparation that goes into each mission. This preparation doesn’t just take place in the sim, in the pool, or in the lab, but round a table too. At such meetings, NASA colleagues will often scribble on little bits of card […]
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose running your own business Choose to-do lists, chaos, Missed deadlines, post-its and terrifying audits. Choose constant stress, broken sleep And customer complaints. Choose never seeing bathtimes. Choose firefighting. Choose your future. Choose life. We chose not to choose this life. We chose isCompliant. […]
