EN 60204-1 not harmonised to Machinery Directive

At the time of writing EN 60204-1 Safety of machinery. Electrical equipment of machines. General requirements, which is generally considered to be one of the key machinery safety standards, is not harmonised to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
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Pleural plaques not a casue for compensation.

People with pleural plaques – small, symptomless areas of fibrosis
found in the lung, caused by exposure to asbestos – will not be able
to claim compensation, according to the Government recently.
A Law Lords’ ruling in October 2007, which upheld a Court of Appeal judgement that the existence of pleural plaques does not constitute actionable damage, caused huge controversy, leading the Government to publish a consultation paper to assess whether it should overturn the judgement, or pursue other options to support people diagnosed with the condition.
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INTACT extended following Trinity Mirror user group meeting

INTACT, SSS's integrated action management system is being updated to meet additional requirements identified during a user group meeting at Trinity Mirror, Birmingham.
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A Local Printer gain ISO 14001

Congratulations to A Local Printer gaining transfer certification to ISO 14001. There weren't even any observations, showing how well SSS and ALP had 14001 covered.
See more about ISO 14001 support from Strategic Safety Systems.

Latimer Trend FSC systems incorporated

SSS developed an integrated ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management system for Latimer Trend, the leading technical journal printer in Plymouth. Latimer Trend already had certification to FSC and PEFC using their own system, but recently required this to be part of the integrated system. Most of the FSC/PEFC system was already in the 9001 system, so it was a simple matter to add the few extra bits. See more about FSC and PEFC

A Local Printer switch to an SSS EMS

A Local Printer, the Sussex-based environmental printer have switched to the environmental system developed by Strategic Safety Systems. They already have certification to ISO 14001 using systems they developed themselves, but following the introduction of the SSS-developed ISO 9001 system, they decided to change over to have a simple, integrated system. The change-over took one day.

Trinity Mirror Birmingam start ISO 9001

Trinity Mirror at their Birmingham site have started work towards gaining ISO 9001 certification. The driver for this is internal, rather than the desire to gain a "badge" to help marketing. They see great benefits in having a more structured quality management system than at present. SSS continie to work with them on this.