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COVID-19 response

COVID-19 response
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The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a huge impact on people and communities, and we are aware many organizations are facing significant disruptions and challenges that often require an urgent response and robust ongoing management. Protecting your workforce, managing your supply chain and continuing to run your operations effectively may be some of the challenges you are facing as you deliver services for construction projects, operate facilities or decommission assets.

To help keep people safe and enable you to prepare and respond as the situation evolves, use our suite of digitally delivered services. Access to selected standards, webinars, online training and remote audits are all designed to offer flexibility and minimize disruption. Understand and prioritize the risks to your business by upskilling your team and adopting ISO 22301 the business continuity management framework and protecting your workforce using ISO 45001, the Occupational Health and Safety Management System, to mitigate exposure to physical and psychological risks.

Maintaining operations during disruptions - ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management

To build your resilience, understanding and prioritizing the risks to your business is essential. The international standard for business continuity provides a framework to help. ISO 22301 specifies the requirements for a management system to protect against, reduce the likelihood of, and help ensure you’re best placed to recover from disruptive incidents.

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Protecting your workforce during this time

Workers may be exposed to hazards that put them at risk of infection. Even those who aren’t directly at risk from exposure may face new health and safety risks, such as the psychological impact of being isolated whilst working from home.

Every organization, large or small can act to assess, control and mitigate the risk from biological hazards such as COVID-19.

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System is designed to reduce the risks of work-related ill-health (and injury) and to provide safe and healthy work environments. It provides good practice in health and safety risk management, which, if implemented correctly, will help organizations protect their workers.

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Introducing remote audits

BSI remote audits enable us to continue to deliver your audit program how and when you need it. The same trusted experts can engage your team members wherever they are based and enhance your audit using immersive technologies.

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Remote audits for Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Smart Cities

We have been delivering remote audits for BIM (Building Information Modelling) to clients around the world, from Australia to the Netherlands and Malaysia, since 2016. These include BIM design and construction, BIM for asset management and BIM security. We can also offer elements of remote auditing for BIM objects.

To date, our clients have chosen to use WebEx and Skype for BIM audits which lend themselves well to remote auditing as much of the audit is screen-based. Clients have been delighted with the delivery and service. We can also deliver remote audits for the BSI Kitemark for Smart Cities. Undertaken remotely, we work with clients around the world to validate the adoption of the Smart City standard ISO 37106. 

Clients can expect a seamless service delivering flexibility whilst also validating ongoing compliance and performance.

Online training. Trusted expertise.

To help overcome travel restrictions, know that BSI training is also available as live online, including BIM courses. We have been delivering our world-class learning programs online for over five years through an engaging and interactive experience.

The same high-quality training course is led by an expert BSI tutor – delivered online to your desktop wherever you're located. You'll have the same activities and interactions.

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Complimentary access to the COVID-19 section of our Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN) tool

This powerful online tool will empower businesses to be more resilient through the pandemic. SCREEN is a web-based, comprehensive global supply chain intelligence system available by subscription, which includes valuable information for companies to anticipate, quickly respond to, and avoid supply chain disruptions.

The COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the current fragility of global supply chains, wherein the failure of one link in the chain has the potential to cause extensive disruptions throughout. Lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak about how to better mitigate disease spread and absorb delays to manufacturing and global shipping will shape how organizations and supply chains are effectively able to respond to other disruptions in the future.

For this reason, we are providing open access to SCREEN’s COVID-19 intelligence. “These insights will allow companies to sharpen their actions in the face of this crisis, focus their business continuity plans for their recovery and have a stronger continuity plan for the future,” said Jim Yarbrough, Global Intelligence Program Manager at BSI. “Our priority is to bring the global community reliable and actionable insights and information, curated by our team of experts, around COVID-19 to protect public health and mitigate business disruption.”

Reports are constantly monitored and updated for accuracy by BSI’s intelligence team, providing users with the confidence that the information found within SCREEN is the most up-to-date and comprehensive information available.

SCREEN COVID-19 intelligence

Real-time governance, risk and compliance insight with Entropy software

Entropy software provides a governance, risk and compliance platform, focused on helping you manage your business processes and information. This provides real-time insight on performance, which enables you to address any issues that arise and demonstrate improvement.

  • Increase visibility of compliance and risk across your organization’s sites, system and suppliers
  • Get KPI data and business insight available in real-time
  • Gain efficiencies in your business processes
  • Streamline audits, risk calculations, remediation and document management
  • Be more efficient with your compliance reporting through pre-configured templates
  • Support business growth through harmonized global practices
  • Better evaluate performance using dashboard views of your data
Learn more about Entropy software >