What is the best way for an organization to support its people during a pandemic? How do you keep business going in extraordinary and fast-changing circumstances? COVID-19 has brought a great deal of pain, especially for those who have lost loved ones. How should those in leadership positions cope with the situation?
ASTM International has released a new standard to help prevent the contamination of biopharmaceuticals with foreign particles during the single-use system (SUS) manufacturing process.
We want to help organizations optimize their response to the current instability by sharing some of the expertise we’ve built up. The following summarizes key learning from BSI’s most relevant standards.
Whether you are a manager or employee, full-time homeworking is testing relationships, processes and expectations. BSI offers advice drawn from management standards on how to make the most of the challenges and opportunities during this time, with a focus on productivity rather than facetime.
“A game changer for the hygiene sector” - Products with biocidal technology can be used on household surfaces for general cleaning. However, test methods for these products lacked the credibility and consensus to ensure they were relevant to real-life environments. Read how we developed a test method with Byotrol (PAS 2424 - a fast-track standard) to provide consumer assurance and industry best practice.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced a regulatory exemption to support UK production of biocidal hand sanitizer products during the COVID-19 outbreak.
When David Bowie sang ‘Is there life on Mars?’ he was probably not thinking about bacteria. Bacteria lives in almost all spaces in existence and its presence can pose a significant problem when trying to keep an environment contained. One such industry that relies on this cleanroom control is the aerospace sector. Avoiding contamination is vitally important as anything that goes into space needs to be as free from contaminants as possible - both to to keep sensors and instruments clean and to prevent the introduction of bacteria into new, off-world environments.
