compliance system Articles
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Overcoming the International Audit Challenge - Enhesa Experts reflect on their auditing experiences
As the trend of corporate expansion into new international territories shows no sign of slowing, Corporate Audit Programs must find efficient ways of embracing global complexity. Companies must address the challenge of building one standardized and consistent compliance system in face of different languages, cultures, perceptions, regulations and enforcement practices. This month, Enhesa ...
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Auditing methodology on legal compliance of enterprise information systems
In spite of the scepticism, that information technology (IT) compliance is useless enforcement, which does not contribute to an economic balance of the organisations, IT compliance is a mandatory responsibility of the organisations for their survival enforced by legalised rules. To review and update enterprise information systems to be in compliance with various laws is not an easy work because ...
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Agile Compliance Management Systems for Environmental, Health and Safety
Compliance is not an optional activity. The regulated community is well aware of the serious consequences of NOT complying. Unfortunately, achieving and/or assuring compliance can be a tremendous challenge. Manual compliance management processes can place a huge time and money burden on major corporations and govenrment agencies. Business and reulatory pressures, as well as the sheer volume ...
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10 easy steps to Quality Management System compliance
Complying with quality standards is no easy task, even with enough resources available to manage them. Unfortunately, today’s difficult business climate has not changed the tough quality standard requirements. These requirements take a significant amount of time and resources to manage. The good news is that successfully managing an organization’s quality management system with ...
By QAD Inc.
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Developing & Implementing a Successful Environmental Compliance Mgmt System for the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) Refineries in WA State
Abstract As the number of environmental regulations and operating requirements included within operating permits for refineries continue to grow, many environmental managers have opted to implement environmental data management systems. This case study will demonstrate how a group of five refineries through the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) in Washington State have chosen to work ...
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Get Your Compliance House in Order - Before Regulators Come Knocking
Citigroup recently was publicly rebuked by regulators – and fined $400 million – for failing to improve its hodgepodge of risk and compliance systems. And Citi is not alone in receiving this level of scrutiny. Regulators are now paying close attention to the processes companies have in place to manage risk holistically. Fines, reputations, and other costly damages are all very real ...
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Information architecture planning template for health, safety, and environmental organizations
In 2003, Innovene (then as BP) began an initiative to improve the coordination of compliance requirements through development of a new Compliance Management System at their assets in the Houston and South Texas region. An important part of the initiative was to improve the information systems architecture used by Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) staff at all of the facilities, resulting in ...
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Arsenic Treatment Project Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico - Adedge Technologies, Inc.
In August, 2004, following successful field piloting, AdEdge Technologies, Inc. (AdEdge) was selected by the Pueblo of Isleta, located south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide a turnkey project for furnishing an arsenic treatment system, installation, startup, and commissioning to bring the casino water system into compliance with the new maximumcontaminant level (MCL) for arsenic. The Isleta ...
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Enhesa webinar invitation! Going beyond corporate standards to ensure EHS compliance
Do you believe your corporate standards are comprehensive enough to ensure EHS compliance globally? Are your standards based primarily on the regulations from your home country? Have you given your facilities the tools to know and be compliant with local regulations? Are you prepared to pay the fines and penalties associated with transgressions of local country regulations? In order to ...
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Arsenic Treatment Project - Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico
In August, 2004, following successful field piloting, AdEdge Technologies, Inc. (AdEdge) was selected by the Pueblo of Isleta, located south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide a turnkey project for furnishing an arsenic treatment system, installation, startup, and commissioning to bring the casino water system into compliance with the new maximum contaminant level (MCL) for arsenic. The ...
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The ECHA Scip solution from Compliance XL
The SCIP Database is similar to ECHA database of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in articles or in complex objects (products) established under the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC). Any company that is supplying or intend to supply any product containing an SVHC (Substance of Very High Concern) on the Candidate List Substances with a concentration more than 0.1% in weight in the ...
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Project - UAE Refinery - Oil and Gas
Capacity: 500,000 Barrels per day A major oil and gas operator in UAE contracted CMC to deliver and certify 28 PEMS and 3 CEMS along with a mobile CEMS for compliance on their refinery stacks. A SmartCEMS PEMS was started-up to record the operating and emission data in September of 2008 for all of the units. A data acquisition system was provided by Honeywell Xceed and was started-up to record ...
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Restoration KPIs for Quality Compliance
How do you know what’s truly working well if you can’t measure it? Everyone from the insurance carrier to the restoration contractor needs Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to determine whether to keep doing more of something when the numbers are good or less of some things when the numbers indicate that the outcome will most likely be less than ideal. In a perfect world, everyone ...
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Project - UAE Carbon Black and Coker Plant - Oil and Gas
Capacity: 4400 tons of propylene per day A major oil and gas operator in UAE contracted CMC to deliver and certify 19 PEMS and 2 CEMS for compliance on their coker plant stacks. A SmartCEMS PEMS will be started-up to record the operating and emission data in September of 2014 for all of the units. A data acquisition system was provided by Honeywell Xceed and was started-up to record the operating ...
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Process vent treatment at major Gulf coast chemical plant - Case Study
Project highlights and product features Compact, self-contained unit for process vent application treating influent of 30,000 ppm at 2SCFH Media capacity is renewable in place using steam, regenerating to a process receiver for product recovery Addresses new regulatory requirement for emission control on continuous process vents that previously vented to scrubbers or the atmosphere ...
By ECT2
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Outsourced EHS consulting support - how the convergence business model provides quality, flexibility and business value case study
Client: $1+ billion US Global Company Sector: Life Sciences Services: Outsourced country environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting Additional Specialty Focus Areas: Legal registers, compliance plans, risk assessments, training, liaison with regulatory agencies, incident investigation, vendor due diligence, waste audits, permit applications, product stewardship advice Countries ...
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Compliance on the Cutting Edge - Keep Your Company From Becoming an Expensive Lesson in Non-Compliance
When your company is operating on the cutting edge of technology or seeking to establish a foothold in a new market created by modern technology, the mundane requirements of staying compliant to existing legislation can seem to be archaic and out of place. That appeared to be the position taken recently by a competitor to Bitcoin in the virtual currency exchange or cryptocurrency market that ...
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Enhesa’s Product Compliance Checklists allow companies to place products on international markets with confidence
The dramatic growth of product-related EHS laws and regulations rapidly spreading around the globe has led to growing demand for user-friendly, up-to-date and comprehensive tools to allow companies to meet these new requirements, and designed to enhance corporate global product stewardship initiatives. Recent enforcements cases indicate that the challenges of ensuring products comply with EHS ...
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Benefits of a Cloud QMS for Regulated Industries
For regulated industries, a cloud-driven – or Software as a Service (SaaS) – quality management system (QMS) and compliance solution offers several advantages over a traditional, on-site system. We highlight the benefits of a cloud QMS for regulated ...
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Policies and Procedures Management – Enjoying Your Next Audit
If you were to look up the term ‘necessary evil’ in a dictionary, there should probably be a picture of an auditor included somewhere in the definition. Everyone can appreciate the valuable work that auditors do in keeping organizations in compliance, but nobody wants to see them show up in their department, especially if that arrival is unannounced. Surprise inspections or spot ...
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