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Start by reading these articles - 6 Key Benefits of ISO 14001 - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/6-key-benefits-of-iso-14001/ and - ISO 14001: The benefits for customers - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/ - can you use one or more topics from the articles to support your proposal. Can your organization win new clients that demand ISO 14001 certification? Can your organization reduce costs due to a systematic improvement of environmental issues? For example, while implementing an environmental management system I was able to reduce costs and improve productivity by changing to water-based adhesives instead of solvent-based ones.
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It is the adopted version (the old one) because the draft of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) is not officially adopted.
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According to Article 8 GDPR, the processing of children’s data requires consent from their parents or from the person holding parental responsibility over them. Even if the legal ground is a contract, the child cannot enter into a contract without parental consent.Recently, some social networks had been fined by Surveillance Authorities because it was not implemented a system to verify the age of the user and require parental consent.
The Toolkit includes a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Validation Register and generic template for a LIMS record. These are associated with the Quality Assurance Procedure. The record guides the user to record the purpose and type of test planned. Then the Test case and Procedure , Acceptance criteria and Comments / Action required can be recorded. All the other felds are provided, for example for additional comments / monitoring of risk, record of person performing the validation and approving the validation.
It is the laboratory’s role to identify the criteria and list them in the record. This reinforces the awareness and consideration of the needs. The latest Part 11, Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures - Scope and Application is available at https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/part-11-electronic-records-electronic-signatures-scope-and-application
To view a preview of the Advisera 17025 toolkit and the LIMS register and record, you can go to https://advisera.com/17025academy/iso-17025-documentation-toolkit/
AS9100 Clause 8.2.3 is about the review of requirements for products and services, and clause 8.2.3.2 is a subclause to this. So in clause 8.2.3.1 you review if you are able to meet all of the requirements for your products and services (customer, legal, other), and clause 8.2.3.2 is telling you that you need to keep records on what you found in your review (the results of the review). For example, could you meet everything, did you change requirements due to customer agreement, etc.
As this is common to ISO 9001, you can read mor in this related 9001Academt article: How Product Requirements work in ISO 9001, https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2014/04/08/product-requirements-work-iso-9001/
Following questions can be asked when analyzing risks from production control:
It is not important what your prediction is that something will happen, but how much such a risk can have negative consequences for the user of the medical device (harm). Usually, if the prediction is very small, it just means that you keep that risk under very good control. The point is that the risk is there, that you have to recognize it and that you have to take all possible measures to reduce it to a minimum.
For more information regarding the risk in medical devices please see the following article:
The validation record is generic and can typically be used as is for any sector. The record can be revised if necessary, or customised by the laboratory for a specific purpose. The record is a tool to “house” specific requirements that an individual laboratory has.
What is important is that the laboratory has knowledge of the guideliens and requirements for its sector. For Pharmaeutical, for example, The Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention and Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) document PI 011-3 PIC/S Guidance Good Practices for Computerised Systems in Regulated “GXP” Environments, available at https://picscheme.org/docview/3444
To view a preview of the toolkit and the LIMS register and record, you can go to https://advisera.com/17025academy/iso-17025-documentation-toolkit/
To be ISO 14001:2015 certified an organization has to comply with all the requirements of the standard. So, your company must have a master-project dedicated to accomplishing conformity with ISO 14001:2015.
While implementing the environmental management system your company will determine and evaluate:
From these sources, other projects can emerge, in order to improve, in a continual improvement effort, or to eliminate lack of compliance with conformity obligations. For example, currently, in one of my ISO 14001 implementation projects we have these improvement projects:
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It is not easy to answer theoretically without knowing the real situation. I would start to determine positive and negative issues from each system to frame what we want to keep, and what we want to avoid in the future integrated system.
Then, I would start integrating those clauses very similar in both standards like 9.3, 9.2, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 5.2, …
In operations I would use the process approach from ISO 9001 and would try to include as much as possible the environmental operational procedures, instructions and records embedded in the daily life of the operation. Consider the central flow in this picture:
Organizations exist to serve clients. So, I recommend starting with modeling how the organizations serve clients based on the process approach and ISO 9001. Then, I consider other interested parties. Based on ISO 14001 and interested parties requirements I recommend organizations to determine environmental aspects and impacts, compliance obligations and risks.
From here, it is possible to determine what needs to be done to improve the interaction with the environment while serving clients. And what needs to be done can be translated to things like:
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I like to keep the documentation as much as possible in a digital format. That helps to keep documents and records updated, and easily available for those that need them. I consider it crucial to invest in explaining to users the why for the documentation, and how and when to use it.
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