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Book your place at the Switch Forum Event 17 February 2016

 

The Scottish Waste Industry Training Competency and Health & Safety (SWITCH) Forum is holding its second good practice event focusing on leadership, competence and safety. The event will see the launch of the new Resource Management Competence Framework, self-assessment tool and user-guide. Speakers will highlight the inter-relationship and importance of the 3 themes of leadership, competence and safety.

The event will provide an opportunity to:

Hear first-hand from those who have adopted the framework

Explorehot topics – the new HSE/HSL research report; occupational health and what the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives can offer the industry.

Gain new knowledgeabout – developing staff skills in the workplace; the Sustainable Resource Management MA scheme; Developing the Workforce programme; how to source support and funding; and the new HWRC Staff Guide

Find outmore about SWITCH and how you can get involved in this industry-led forum created to improve the health, safety, welfare, training and competence of all those that work in the resource management and recycling industry.

Time to SWITCH On17 February 2016 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow from 9.30-4.00

 Places are limited so please click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-to-switch-on-tickets-20566432754

Follow link below to CIWM journal article

CIWM January SWITCH

Changes to ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007

The new standards for ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management) were published in September 2015. The new versions follow a new, higher level structure to make it easier to use in conjunction with other management system standards, with increased importance given to risk.

Organisations are granted a three-year transition period after the revision has been published to update their management systems to the new editions of the standards.

The key changes in ISO 14001:2015 relate to:

  • Increased prominence of environmental management within the organization’s strategic planning processes
  • Greater focus on leadership
  • Addition of proactive initiatives to protect the environment from harm and degradation, such as sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation
  • Improving environmental performance
  • Lifecycle thinking when considering environmental aspects
  • Addition of a communications strategy

The new standard ISO 45001 will eventually replace OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management) and it is being designed to integrate more easily with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. The intention is to publish the final version in October 2016.

Barrachander Quarry Ltd awarded Waste Management Licence

 

‘Albion Environmental Ltd are delighted to hear from SEPA that Barrachander Quarry Ltd in Taynuilt just 11 miles east of Oban, have been awarded their Waste Management Licence to operate a new recycling facility at their existing quarry facility, Barrachander Quarry. This new facility is to provide for the keeping, screening, sorting, transfer and recycling of plastic, wood, paper,cardboard, metals, construction, demolition, commercial and industrial non-hazardous wastes. This new facility will bring Zero Waste’s National Policy of reducing waste to landfill to another area of Scotland where no recycling facilities exist. Albion Environmental welcome the opportunity to work with Barrachander Quarry Ltd and wish them every success in the future.’