Grants now available from Eco Innovation that can help SME's across the South East of England (excluding London). If you are an SME based in this region you can now apply for a grant of upto £3000 to help pay for ISO 14001 or ISO [...]
The revised version of ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management, is on target for 2015 (albeit with a slight delay of course). We reported back in 2012 that the update was due in January 2015, but this has now been delayed until approx [...]
Whatever type of business you run, wherever you’re based, your non-domestic building could be containing huge quantities of asbestos. If you’re in charge of managing and maintaining this facility – either as its owner or dedicated controller through a tenancy agreement – you also have [...]
A question that we often get asked during our training sessions is what legal regulatory compliance should you be audting for under ISO 14001 and OH&S 18001. Clause 4.5.2 of ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 is often a weakness within an organisations system and in [...]
Over 99% of organisations do not individually have significant environmental impact. However, their cumulative effect on the environment is probably greater than the small number of potentially significant environmental polluters. The international environmental management system (EMS) standard ISO 14001 was not developed solely for organisations [...]
PAS 2050, the world’s first standard to help businesses measure the carbon footprint of their goods and services, is to be updated and revised two years after it was first published. More than 30,000 organisations and business all over the world have downloaded the free [...]
The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 due to come into force next year will impact on a broad range of organizations including those that produce, carry, store, treat or dispose of waste as the latest round of updates from the revised EU Waste Framework [...]
The government funded environmental guide, Netregs, has recently released a new updated tool to help you assess the environmental legislation that applies to you business. […]