Standards do far more than just help you comply with the relevant rules and regulations. They play a crucial role in facilitating international trade, supporting businesses into export markets by lowering barriers to trade.
A group of trade associations representing companies operating in the chemicals supply chain that use packaging have worked together to develop a new guidance document, British Plastics and Rubber reports.
BSI’s Global Supply Chain Intelligence report, which revealed the top supply chain risks in 2016, underlined the importance of taking a holistic approach to supply chain risk management. Some of the risks identified may not appear to have a direct impact on supply chain, but have evolved as such – those organizations who take a reactive approach to risk management are in danger of being caught out.
Most people understand the importance of surveillance in creating a safe society – surveys suggest mass public support of CCTV in a public space. However, people aren’t always prepared to give up their privacy to facilitate tighter monitoring of criminals. However, before an organisation adopts BMV, they need to weigh up the pros and cons of using means of surveillance, which will help them decide whether it will prove a sound investment.
PAS 1550:2017 has been developed to help improve understanding of the EU IUU Regulation and to help the industry adapt their due diligence and risk assessment systems to reduce the risk of supplying or procuring IUU fish, or fish either caught or processed by workers who are not provided with decent working conditions.
Asda is the worst of the UK's major supermarkets at treating suppliers fairly, according to survey a of more than 1,200 grocery suppliers by the industry watchdog.
It’s been established that organisational resilience is the “the ability of an organisation to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper”.
The food watchdog in Scotland has said that a series of regulations are required to enable healthy eating, with consumers found to be unable to make sound decisions for themselves.
