risk audit Articles
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Conflict of Interest: 3 Signs You’re on Top of Conflict of Interest Disclosures
Find out if your organization is staying on top of COI management and how conflict of interest software can help. The likelihood that your employees face significant conflicts of interest in the performance of their assigned roles is usually assumed to vary dramatically from industry to industry. In practice, it is the type of COI that most often varies. Senior executives in every industry can ...
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Local primary school saves £1000s by upgrading rather than replacing glazing - case study
Location: Bolton Problem: Health and Safety Compliancy Product: ARC CL4 PSSR Local primary school saves £1000s by upgrading rather than replacing glazing to meet current H&S regulations Health and Safety Compliance - Glazing This school is a successful primary school located in Bolton, lancashire. The school places huge importance on providing a safe and secure environment for its ...
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Steps to Ensuring a Successful Audit: Effective Risk Assessment Design
Abstract When designing a process, product quality is an important measure of success. To ensure product quality, it is imperative that the environment is monitored for contamination. The best way to locate sources of contamination is via risk assessment, best performed before a process has been implemented. There are multiple tools to assist in completing a risk assessment, and once completed, ...
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Case study - Audits and Inspections-are you doing them for the right reasons?
As a software provider we are often asked to suggest different templates for helping clients to manage audits and inspections. The benefits of Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety (QEHS) software tools are that it makes managing all audits and inspections a much easier task. However we want to help clients ensure that they are doing the right type of audits and inspections. One fundamental ...
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Process safety and risk management audits for a ceramics manufacturing facility – Case Study
Challenge Antea Group was contracted by a large, advanced materials organization to provide a Process Safety Management and Risk Management Program compliance audit of a specialty ceramics manufacturing facility in New Hampshire. Processing at the facility is related to the crystalline growth of materials used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Processing at the facility involved ...
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With ISO 14001 for the environment: Resource monitoring with software - Case Study
Alfred Kärcher, a family enterprise from Winnenden in southwest Germany, is among the pioneers of environmental protection. With a diversified eco-controlling department, the manufacturer of high-pressure cleaners and scrubber dryers is continuously working toward optimizing their environmental performance. Since 2010, Kärcher has been using the Quentic software to gather and analyze ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Transparent and secure processes: Well-organized data management in the chemical industry - Case Study
According to the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), Germany is finding it increasingly difficult to stay globally competitive as a chemical location. The industry is facing the enormous challenge of securing its long-term competitiveness. After implementing Quentic, the online software for Health & Safety, Environmental management (HSE) and Sustainability, ISP Marl GmbH is now in ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Taking the lead in safety: Online solution for occupational safety and environmental protection - Case Study
Creating a safe working environment requires that many precautions are considered: risk assessments, the implementation of safety measures, drafting operating instructions and training employees. In order to manage these responsibilities effectively, the company ENGIE Deutschland (former name: GDF Suez Energie Deutschland) relies on the online software Quentic. Since 2010, ENGIE Deutschland ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Choose Your Own Auditing Adventure
Four Approaches for a Customized Environmental Auditing Program Compliance audits are a tool commonly employed by EHS managers to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs in meeting national, regional, and local regulatory requirements. Comprehensive audits will present not only findings, but also root causes and corrective actions. Based on internal capabilities and the reality of EHS ...
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Integrated EHS management in a tech company: International flexibility thanks to modular software - Case Study
“Engineering for a better world” is the mission statement and claim of the tech company GEA, which has sustainability and responsible value creation as its core values. Accordingly, the group places key emphasis on health & safety, legal compliance and the environment in all its production locations. Since 2014, the group has been relying on Quentic to integrate its EHS processes ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Keeping an eye on environmental indicators: Recording, analysis and evaluation with software - Case Study
Water, air, soil, or waste – companies that identify and analyze environmental aspects of their business activities gain a competitive advantage, especially regarding international standards such as ISO 14001. For the company Berliner Wasserbetriebe, utilities provider in the metropolitan area of Berlin, Germany, the assessment of environmental aspects is common practice. In 2009, the ...
By Quentic GmbH
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What is Enterprise EHS Software and Who Should Use It?
Not all EHS software is created equal. Whether you need enterprise EHS software or not depends on your company size, EHS program maturity, and other measures. If you’re in the market for new EHS software, it’s likely you’ve come across the term ‘enterprise-class’ when browsing. Here we explain what enterprise-class EHS software is, and the type of companies that ...
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Certified safety all round: Mobile use of the software for audits and inspections. - Case Study
The automotive industry is characterized by stringent legal requirements and supplier audits. Certifications such as ISO 14001/EMAS, for environmental protection, or OHSAS 18001, for Health & Safety, can be included in the supplier evaluation – a considerable endeavor for the supply industry. Since the end of 2011, the tire manufacturer Pirelli has been using Quentic, the online ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Control sustainability centrally: Efficient environmental and resource management - Case Study
Efficient environmental and resource management at all global sites: the technology company Voith, based in Heidenheim, Germany, is making this a reality. They started using the EHS and CSR software Quentic in 2011 to help them on their road to sustainability. Quentic allows all those responsible to carry out their tasks simultaneously within a single system. About Voith Voith, a family-owned ...
By Quentic GmbH
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KAZ Minerals Case Study
Emex delivered improved data capture and reporting processes. The Challenge KAZ Minerals Group is a high growth copper company focused on large scale, low cost open pit mining, with a proven track record for the successful delivery of greenfield mining projects. It is a high profile company in Kazakhstan and employs around 13,000 people. Emex was chosen for the second time in 2015 following an ...
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Unsafe situations under control: from a legal register to a near miss system - Case Study
Zero accidents and zero environmental incidents — this is the ambitious goal of the chemical company INEOS Köln. High safety standards are what has characterized the site for decades. In order to further improve this exemplary achievement, the producer of basic chemicals has implemented Quentic software. Since 2014, the company has been using the software to record and analyze unsafe ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Recycling with online technology: Legally compliant across locations - Case Study
Hundreds of sites with enormous storage areas, large facilities and a huge fleet – keeping track of all the necessary permits, requirements, inspections and measures is just one of the daily tasks that the Scholz Recycling GmbH quality management has to face. In order to manage these tasks consistently, efficiently and for several site units simultaneously, the recycling giant Scholz ...
By Quentic GmbH
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Using technology to cultivate a culture of safety
Workplace accidents and fatalities are a common occurrence, but many safety incidents could have been avoided through improved training management, accurate data reporting, internal audits, and generating a culture of safety within an organization. The American Society of Safety Engineers has published a great, unbiased article titled “Technically Safe: Gaining 360◦ Visibility with ...
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Audit Analysis: Know Why It is Important?
Audit analysis is all about paying attention to the quality of data collected to make better and informed business decisions. It is undoubtedly a critical component of your quality management process to identify the critical areas of improvement and maintain business operational excellence. For many organizations, audit analysis is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. It might be due to a ...
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Crisis management as an opportunity for better occupational safety
When a crisis like the Corona pandemic hits globally active companies, already existing challenges in occupational safety and legal compliance are multiplied exponentially. Locations of various sizes, with differing company cultures and procedural structures face different levels of severity pandemic and are subject to different legal regulations based on their level of risk. The accelerated ...
By Quentic GmbH
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