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September 2009
Support in Expansion of EMS Scope
The Company has been invited by W&S Recycling to provide on-going support in adding up to 6 additional waste recycling centres to the scope of the certified EMS operating at Millhams Recycling Centre in Bournemouth since summer 2008.
September 2009
VWIS Venture Goes Ahead
Holmes Environmental Ltd has been invited by Vogel Waste Industry Services (VWIS), a process engineering firm offering waste technology & process services to head up the organisation’s environmental management & compliance service division. The organisation took up residence in a new office conversion at Unit 7 in Loseley Park, near Guildford at the end of August 2009.
August 2009
EMS Design Support
The Company has been awarded a contract to ‘kick-start’ the design and implementation of a certifiable EMS within a Hampshire based health care company which is a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics. The organisation plans to invite an accredited certification body to certify the EMS before early summer 2010.
June 2009
BREEAM Registered Assessor
Director Rob Holmes was added to the list of registered assessors under the Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) Industrial Scheme 2008. The registration was awarded after successful completion of training, a written examination and a test assessment. He will carry out a post-construction BREEAM assessment on the ‘as built’ office conversion of VWIS at Unit 7, Loseley Park leading hopefully to the award of a BREEAM certificate (see article ‘VWIS Venture Goes Ahead’ elsewhere in News).
September & December 2008 and April & June 2009
Compliance Assurance Audit Support, Ireland
Acted on behalf of a leading global environmental consulting group as an environmental expert in 4 recent EHS Compliance Assurance audits of manufacturing plants in Ireland. The plants represented the pharmaceuticals, healthcare and food manufacturing sectors. Audits were in-depth, followed Evaluation Work Plans and lasted up to 5 days on each site.
May 2009
Company Director Approved as AJA Lead Auditor
Rob Holmes has been approved as a Lead Auditor for EMS with Bristol-based UKAS accredited Certification Body AJA Registrars Ltd. AS part of AJA’s competence assessment he took part in a witnessed 2-day ISO 14001:2004 Stage 2 (Initial) Audit of a regional construction firm and 3 active construction sites in East Anglia in May 2009.
September 2008
EMS Re-Certification Audit at London Fire Brigade
Acting under sub-contract with DNV Certification a recertification audit was completed for the Procurement Group based at the London Fire Brigade HQ in Southwark. This included site visits to the Protective Equipment Group, Hose & Line in Croydon and the Brigade Distribution Centre at a separate location in Croydon. Recertification was recommended.
September 2008
DNV Sub-Contractors’ Meeting
A meeting of DNV Certification sub-contractors delivering ISO9001, 14001 and 18001 certification services took place in Southwark. This forum regularly meets to be informed of updates in procedures and administration. On this occasion procedural changes were presented following DNV’s recent accreditation by UKAS to ISO17021 ‘Requirements for Bodies providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems’. These include the need to outline the customer’s proposed actions (auditable) to close-out non-conformities identified during an audit.
September 2008
Compliance Audit at Bio-Polymer Facility in Cork, Ireland
An internal environmental audit was carried out at the manufacturing operations of a US owned bio-polymer facility in Cork, Ireland. The Company principal was engaged by ENSR UK to provide support to the team and to bring Knowledge of regulations in Ireland and the EU.
September 2008
Periodic Audits Completed at Landfills and Transfer Stations
Day-long periodic audits were carried out on 4 landfills, a material recycling facility and 2 transfer stations in London, Essex and the Thames Valley. Three of the landfills are large accepting between 600,000 tonnes and 800,000 tonnes of waste per year. The project also included auditing the organisation’s laboratory and technical support centre and the material sales department which is responsible for sale of multi-fractionate recyclates as secondary raw materials.
August 2008
BSI Certify Environmental Management System to ISO14001:2004
BSI certified the environmental management system for W&S Recycling’s Millhams Community Recycling Centre site in Bournemouth to the ISO14001:2004 standard in August 2008. The Company has been involved in the design and implementation of the EMS through participation in the W&S Environmental working Group and since being commissioned to carry out the Initial Environmental Review in January 2007.
Newsletter 8 Summer-Autumn 2009 - Newsletter 7 Winter-Spring 2008 - Newsletter 6 Spring-Summer 2005
Newsletter 5 Autumn-Winter 2004 - Newsletter 4 Autumn-Winter 2002
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