There has never been a more challenging time for the food and drinks industry. Managing food safety risks, intense competition, rapidly changing consumer trends and pressure to reduce costs whilst increasing operating efficiencies are providing the industry with a number of competitive global challenges.
Organizations in the food and drink industry need to manage business risks, and meet legal requirements if they are to remain competitive, protect their reputation and enhance their brand. Export is vital to the success of many food and drink organizations and ever-increasing demands through legislation and customer and consumer requirements is a key driver for implementing management systems.
ISO 22000 is an international standard that defines the requirements of a food safety management system covering all organizations in the food chain from “farm to fork”.
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The standard covers a comprehensive scope of product safety areas, as well as the legal and due diligence responsiblities of both the supplier and the retailer.
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HACCP is a risk management tool recognized internationally for use in the proactive management of food safety issues. A HACCP system helps you to focus on the hazards that affect food safety through hazard identification and to establish critical control limits at critical points during the production process.
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The standard provides a common basis for the certification of companies supplying packaging to manufacturers and retailers.
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BS 25999 provides a basis for understanding, developing and implementing business continuity within your organization and gives you confidence in business-to-business and business-to customer dealings.
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ISO 9001 can help bring out the best in your organization by enabling you to understand your processes for delivering your products/services to your customers.
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The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary EU initiative designed to improve your company's environmental performance.
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ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standard designed to address the delicate balance between maintaining profitability and reducing environmental impact.
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An OHSMS promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing a framework that allows your organization to consistently identify and control its health and safety risks, reduce the potential for accidents, aid legislative compliance and improve overall performance.
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ISO/IEC 27001 is the only auditable international standard which defines the requirements for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls.
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Certification to this international standard enables you to independently demonstrate to your customers that you meet IT service management best practice.
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There is increasing demand from consumers and pressure groups for organizations to look into their supply chains and ensure that raw materials and processed products are being produced with due regard for the culture and human rights of those from whom they are being sourced. Having a social accountability management system independently verified will provide stakeholders with the assurance that an organization is demonstrating good practice in relation to social accountability and human rights.
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Integrated Management Systems provide a cost and time effective way of managing several management systems at once. This can be used to integrate the traditional suite of Health and Safety, Quality or Environment, or in implementing a tailored approach to include other standards such as Food Safety Management (ISO 22000).
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The customer satisfaction standard, ISO 10002:2004, is the guideline standard for implementing a complaints management system and helps organizations to identify, manage and understand how successfully they deal with their customers' complaints.
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