Regulation isn’t always the best way for the public sector to achieve its objectives - but alternatives, such as codes of practice, often lack specificity. BSI is skilled at framing policy requirements in a way that encourages compliance, and is grounded in pragmatism and ease-of-adoption. The result: policy goals turned into industry-wide common practice - quickly, and with minimal dissent.
Case study - Waste and Resources Action Programme
The government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme needed to sharply increase the recycling of waste materials that would otherwise be landfill. But an absence of standards defining the specification of recovered waste hampered progress.
Working to a tight timescale with a steering group of technical experts, compost producers and compost purchasers, BSI Professional Services leveraged existing know-how to deliver fast-track Publicly Available Specifications that quickly gained industry-wide acceptance. “Publicly Available Specifications met our needs, could be delivered in a viable timescale, and provided an assurance of independence and credibility,” says Dr Liz Goodwin, director of materials programmes at the Waste and Resources Action Programme.
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