Setting Up a Cloud-Based Quality Management System Perhaps you want to set up a Quality Management System or you already have an effective QMS but want to make it cloud-based. We have created a number of…
Virgil Wongsokario12/01/2022
Inspections are a crucial part of any safety and compliance program, but how they're carried out can make all the difference. The old school methods may have relied on pen and paper forms or Word processing…
Virgil Wongsokario18/11/2021
Although procedures are not required any longer, they are still frequently used as a way to describe how a company operates. This makes a lot of sense when it comes to quality but can be significantly…
Nick Appel18/08/2021
The “safety walks” is an excellent measuring stick to see how the company is doing with its safety culture. The power of just walking around and observing how people work from a safety management point of…
Nick Appel25/03/2021
Most of us have been working from home for several weeks now. While working from home a couple of days here and there is fine for most of us, we now run into an odd situation…
Nick Appel30/04/2020
This pandemic of course has a big impact on your job as a safety officer. Normally, you are mainly outside or in the production plant to check up on the safety culture in the company. It…
Nick Appel20/04/2020
We had a great interview with Bart Vanraes, a prevention advisor from Belgium. Bart is an expert in “tippex accidents” and did a significant amount of research into this topic. Tippex Accidents A “tippex accident” is…
Nick Appel13/02/2020
This week we organized a great workshop together with the Team of Brown Paper Audit. They introduced their refreshing point of view to audits. Rather than the one-on-one talks with people in the company, they recommend…
Nick Appel06/02/2020
Near miss is still seen as a big burden by many people, and companies for that matter. The general feeling is still, “Nothing actually happened, so why should we report it?” Yes, nothing happened in the…
Nick Appel10/01/2020
After interviewing a couple dozen auditors, we heard the expression “Buying Certificates” quite a lot. It basically comes down to companies only caring about the certificate and not about the management system. In general, it happens…
Nick Appel19/11/2019
In line with Quality 4.0, there is also HSE 4.0. Maybe this speaks a little less to the imagination, but there are some fantastic examples of HSE 4.0 initiatives. However, the same as for Quality 4.0,…
Nick Appel29/10/2019
