How secure is your business information? Information and data are among the most valuable assets any organisation holds but have you considered the wider impact a cyber incident could have on your business, your customers and your supply chain? Recent high-profile cyber incidents involving Jaguar L...
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An Internal Audit Matrix is a valuable framework — but it should never be a one-size-fits-all document. To deliver real value, it needs to reflect how your organisation actually operates. For example, organisations delivering services within the care sector are unlikely to need a Sales audit. ...
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In a bid to help accelerate the successful achievement of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience, ISO have agreed to a Climate Commitment that will affect all management system standards. What it...
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The common conception for addressing risk is to focus on the defensive aspects. “Identify the risk, reduce the likelihood or the impact!” As we navigate the trials and tribulations of everyday operations, we feel the comfort blanket of self-preservation when we deal with risk. Why ...
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CQS has been established for 25 years this year and we are proud to have delivered over 8,500 certifications to businesses throughout the UK and internationally. We have delive red certification services to a multitude of international standards including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 (forme...
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All management system standards are designed with the ultimate aim of managing risk and encouraging improvement of your systems, processes and ultimately, your business. We are all familiar with risk. We deal with risk as part of our everyday life continually. We purposely carry out acti...
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What is the London Declaration? In a bid to help accelerate the successful achievement of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience, ISO have agreed to a Climate Commitment that will affect all management...
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The eyes of the world are currently trained on Glasgow as they host the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). This has brought to our attention the need to reduce our carbon emissions and become more sustainable in the workplace. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges in ou...
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Having like the rest of the UK gone into Lockdown in March 2020, it seems incredible that in a few weeks’ time it will be almost a year since a lot of our auditors have carried out a site-based audit. Our industry is incredibly fortunate that generally speaking a lot of what we are auditing ca...
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The developing and ongoing Coronavirus pandemic is a worrying time of uncertainty and indeed a challenge for businesses and their workers. Across the world business are taking the measures needed to try to contain the virus using various means. Social distancing, hand washing, personal hygiene and f...
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Following the announcement to the nation by the Prime Minister, all CQS staff are now working remotely until further notice, if you wish to contact any of our office staff you can do so by email via info@cqsltd.com this will then be forwarded to the correct staff member who will then contact you. Pl...
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With the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continuing to spread, some businesses are choosing to close their sites and others are having to adjust their services. We are facing a truly unprecedented situation both nationally and globally. Because of this, CQS have activated business continuity policie...
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