Archive for the ‘Environmental Issues’ Category

Teach children about environmental awareness

With the increasing urgency of environmental issues – from climate change and energy shortages to waste disposal and water conservation – the more you can educate today’s younger generations, the better. After all, as today’s youngsters mature into adulthood, they will continue to face many of the environmental problems being dealt with today. What’s more, [...]

January 20, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Issues  No Comments

The Importance of Compliance Testing

Compliance testing clearly establishes the fact that by implementing a product by a certain implementation specification caters to all the compulsory factors that are necessary. It also ensures the fact that these important factors or elements are operable and are ready to function without any issues. Implementation Specification has expanded over the years and has [...]

January 12, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Issues  No Comments

How to Get an ISO 14001 Accreditation

If you are someone who is looking into getting an ISO 14001, then you may be wondering exactly why it is that you have to get this accreditation.  First, you have to understand that ISO stands for the International Organisation of Standardisation.  This is a series of standards that have been developed with a singular [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Issues  No Comments

EPA Increases Requirements to Protect Public From Lead Exposure Just in Time for Earth Day

As previously announced in the summer of 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency will be putting into place some stronger guidelines to boost up the requirements that it had previously issued in 2008 to protect the more sensitive members of society, our children. The changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s guidelines will fittingly come into [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Issues  No Comments

Importance of CSR for Small Companies

Did you know that approximately 90% of businesses worldwide are made up of small to medium sized enterprises? SMEs also provide 50-60% employment, playing an important role in the development of the society. Small and medium sized companies are also an important factor in ensuring social welfare but sadly, initiatives related to corporate social responsibility [...]

November 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Issues  No Comments