ISO/IEC 27002:2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection — Information Security Controls
A new version of ISO 27002 was published at the beginning of March 2022. ISO 27002:2022 is an international standard for initiating, implementing, maintaining, and improving information security management in organisations of all types and sizes, and supports the implementation of an ISMS (information security management system) based on the requirements of ISO 27001:2013. It […]
Electric Cars Produce Around Half the Lifetime Carbon Emissions of a Diesel Car*
(*for a medium sized car, purchased in 2020 with a battery manufactured in China and charged on the Irish electricity grid) It is commonly assumed that we can decarbonise transport by merely switching our combustion cars for electric cars but that is not the case. Electric cars produce carbon dioxide in their manufacture and use. […]
Small Start Makes Big Impact
Antaris helps SMEs play their part in tackling the climate crisis. The climate emergency requires action from all of us. Everyone has a role to play to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up most of the global economy, about 90% of businesses. According to the World Bank, […]
Materiality Assessments as Part of your Sustainability Journey
Embarking on a sustainability journey can be confusing. To separate the wheat from the chaff, one of the first things you’ll want to conduct is a materiality assessment. Materiality is a concept borrowed from financial accounting relating to the disclosure (and sometimes the omission to disclose) of information that is consequential to the value of […]
Increased Funding Expected for Circular Economy Initiatives in 2022
A successor to the 2021 Circular Economy Innovations Grants Scheme (CEIGS) is expected to be announced in April 2022 with significantly increased funding to be available. The purpose of the CEIGS is to provide support to projects which work in the Circular Economy space with the aim of both advancing the Circular Economy in Ireland […]
Sustainable Transition and Managing Change
Figure 1: A failure to consult with internal stakeholders drives resistance While surveys vary, change projects generally return a 70-80% failure rate. Change managers and those responsible for leading change tend to tell the same old stories….if only managers were better leaders, and if only staff were not so resistant to change. If you cannot […]
Work Related Fatalities in Ireland at their Lowest Level Since Records Began
In this blog, I will discuss some of the takeaways from the provisional work-related fatality figures released by the Health and Safety Authority for 2021. The Health and Safety Authority has released provisional annual statistics for last year. These figures show that there has been a significant reduction in the number of workplace fatalities in […]
Management Principles and Sustainability
Management System Standards and strategies may be successfully applied to sustainability. The concepts and processes involved provide a logical, strategic, and improvement-focused approach to sustainability. There are standards that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These include ISO 20400, Sustainable procurement – Guidance, ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 14001 Environmental Management, ISO 22000 […]
Antaris Sponsors Environment Ireland Event
Antaris Consulting participated in and sponsored one of Ireland’s major environment conference – Environment Ireland, on 18th and 19th January 2022. It was a very informative two day conference with over 40 expert speakers and over 200 delegates. The Environment Protection Agency; European Commission; Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs; Trinity College Dublin; Friends […]
Inspections vs Audits
We are often asked to explain the difference between an inspection and an audit. ISO/IEC 17020:2003 Conformity assessment — Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection defines an inspection as: “examination of a product, process, service, or installation or their design, and determination of their conformity with specific requirements or, on […]
