15th September 2010 - New Service: Understand and manage legislation and regulatory risks that apply within your industry.

Our Own Experience!

Our latest ISO 9000 Quality Management System (QMS) Audit flagged up one minor non-conformance - the standards we have complied with for a number of years had been updated in 2008 and it was time for us to meet the new standards.

Further, our BIP 0008:2004 compliance for Legal Admissibility of electronic documents had also been updated in 2008 and it had also become a Standard BS 10008:2008 whereas it was previously only best practice guidance.

On the face of it, these 2 updates appeared easy enough to get to grips with, as we have been writing and internally auditing to the older standards for years. So with guidance from our auditors, we embarked on the task of updating our policies and procedures to meet the new 2008 levels. A few days of effort will see it all sorted!

In fact, it took us just over 12 days of effort to do the QMS alone!

As you, our clients, regularly require us to capture paper-based documents so that they can be stored and accessed electronically, we quickly realised the change from BIP 0008 to BS 10008 was no minor step and we needed professional help.

Having met Brian Wall of BML Solutions on a couple of occasions, I turned to him and he re-wrote our Policies and Procedures to meet the new standards in just 3 days – I reckon it would have taken us at least 2-3 times that number of days to get it done internally.

Do you fully understand the legislation and regulatory risks that apply within your industry?

Do your policies processes and procedures comply with current standards?

Working in partnership with Brian Wall of BML Solutions (www.bmlsolutions.co.uk), we would like to offer you a Process & Policies Workshop to help you understand the legislation and regulatory risks that apply within your industry and provide some straight forward low/no-cost ways of mitigating these risks in the short to medium term with a long term plan to reach auditable standards.

The workshop’s aim is to help ensure you understand and are compliant with Policies & Procedures to achieve good governance and particularly compliance for Records Management (to BS15489) and to cover such legislation and regulation in the areas of:

- Data Protection
- Freedom of Information
- Retention and Disposal
- Electronic Records (to include Email and office documents like Word & Excel or equivalent)
- Information Management and Security
- e-Discovery
- Business Continuity

We have managed to negotiate a preferential rate with Brian for our clients of £297 per workshop, plus travel and living. The workshop would take the best part of a half a day, with some additional one-to-one time with you on any specific area of concern that you have.

Please let us know if you would like to book Brian for a workshop by contaacting us via our enquiry form.