October 2009 - SQT Training

Health & Safety

It appears that distraction is very much a Health & Safety at work issue. Quoting from a recent Times article Pilots of a Northwest Airlines jetliner that overshot its destination by 240km (150 miles) last week told US investigators they became distracted during an extended ...

Food Safety Update

The BRC (British Retail Consortium) Global Food Safety Standard has been the benchmark for many food manufacturing companies over the past ten years. This standard, though difficult to achieve, was a blessing in disguise for food business operators (FBO). For the first time UK re...

Cleanroom Technology Network Group: September Meeting

We had our second successful gathering of the Cleanroom Technology Network Group on Sept 17th in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone with over 55 attendees from companies all over Ireland. The idea behind the network is to create an informal forum where people working within cleanroom ...

Lean Six Sigma: ‘Voice of the Customer’

Times are changed and it’s certainly considered a buyers market out there at the moment. While this is true of those buying houses or second-hand cars, it’s also true across all goods and services. Early 2009 saw the mass exodus to customers migrate to the north to purchase g...