RIQC Delivers RISAS Breakfast Seminar to Industry
In the setting of the former Midland Railway Roundhouse in Derby today RIQC delivered a successful breakfast seminar to UK rail organisations. This seminar included presentations from the RISAS board, RIQC and Northern Rail. These presentations described the evolution and development of the RISAS scheme, the role of a RISAB and the process to gain approval, the viewpoint of a major business, Northern Rail who had successfully gained RISAS approval.
This was followed by a Q+A session led by RIQCs Managing Director, Ken Mee, which covered a wide range of questions from the rail organisations present."
Editors Notes:
RIQC Limited is an independent accredited third party certification body specialising in the rail industry. They currently provide accredited ISO 9001 quality management systems certification, accredited ISO 14001 environmental systems certification and non-accredited OHSAS health and safety management systems certification.
RISAS was created in response to recommendation 24 of the Cullen Inquiry into the rail crash at Ladbroke Grove in October 1999 and the Health and Safety Executive’s consultation process with industry stakeholders regarding supplier accreditation.