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The new risk management standard ISO 31000:2009 and what it means for food companies

This post was written by Denis Kiely, our Food Safety Tutor In November last year, the International Organization of Standarization (ISO) released the first International Risk Management Standard entitled: ISO 31000:2009, Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines. The stan...

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. It’s certainly a cold New Year. The ‘far off hills are green’. Well here in Limerick, the far off hills of Clare are white. I write this Thursday morning, listening to Morning Ireland, which is dominated by John Murray discussing Arc...

Nollag Shona ó SQT

At this time of year, the line of the Christmas Carol, A ray of hope flickers in the sky, comes to mind. At this time of year, at dawn on the winter solstice, a beam of sunlight illuminates the floor of the chamber at Newgrange. A ray of hope, this time from the CSO: The econom...

Winner of SQT Medal

The photograph shows Joe Queenan, (left), Chairman of the Governing Body Institute of Technology Sligo presenting the SQT medal to Dermot Radford. This medal is awarded to the student who achieves the highest grades on the BSc in Quality Management and Technology at Sligo Instit...

Lean Six Sigma ‘Wall of Pain’

Eamon, one of our Lean Six Sigma tutors wrote the following: Given the relenting pressure on all businesses to drive costs downwards and improve their competiveness the question is where do we start? Which areas should we focus on? A very simple technique is what they call the �...

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