Our 31st January 2014 event featured 4 speakers and had over 40 people in attendance.
Bill Glass from BakerRisk spoke about BakerRisk being a global provider of comprehensive consulting, engineering, R&D, incident investigation and testing services to companies involved with hazardous materials. Their work ultimately assists clients to reduce risk and conduct operations in a safe manner. BakerRisk focuses on a client’s needs and strives to provide solutions that are of the greatest benefit to the client’s overall needs. BakerRisk who have recently invested in a new test rig capability shared information on the latest tests and planned developments.
Our second speaker, Bryan Hughes from CRA presented on the internationally accepted standard for the development, implementation and application of an effective environmental management system and how it is being revised. This fundamental revision of the ISO standard is due to be re-published as ISO 14001:2015, and will have far greater implications than the revision of 2004. Bryan spoke discussed how CRA has identified seven major changes planned for the standard, in particular for the supply chain.
Janet Morris, RGF Programme Manager, and Justin Wrench (C-Tech Innovation Ltd) spoke about the £8m Catalyst for Growth scheme funded through the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF). With capital investment grants of up to £500,000 available to eligible chemical sector companies in the North West. Information was also provided on the application process, eligibility criteria and how to access RGF-funded technical support.
Martin Grindrod from PICME discussed picme’s Clear Advantage™ programme and how it can help organisations deliver significant business improvement in terms of cost avoidance, working capital optimisation, process efficiency and equipment reliability. Their bespoke framework of support helps organisation’s drive these gains through the active engagement of people at all levels of the organisation, enabling a truly sustainable continuous improvement culture to thrive.
