USES OF STAQs
STAQs have a myriad of uses. Here are some uses you may decide to make of STAQs:
as a director’s tool to pre-empt liability, drive policy development, raise investor and shareholder confidence in your compliance programme, and more
as a general audit tool - to check on whether consultants are properly dealing with compliance issues, to carry out self audits or pre-audits, to satisfy the new November 2004 requirements of ISO 14001
as a tool to generate interactive information flow of compliance-relevant facts between a head office and its divisions or branches, holding company and subsidiary, purchaser and supplier, company and third party NGOs, government or statutory inspectorates, and accreditation bodies
as a tool towards certification on environmental or other standards (such as ISO)
as a baseline tool from which an environmental or other legal register may be drawn up and maintained
as an empowerment tool in the hands of your workers’ health and safety committees
as a middle management tool to identify and resolve transgressions, and monitor solutions
as an internal audit tool to assist you to evaluate objectively and impartially the implementation of your compliance policies
as a management decision-making tool, to pinpoint those areas of transgression which you can cost-effectively resolve yourself, and those areas which require outside scientific, technical and other consultant expertise
as an environmental risk and issue assessment tool
as an insurance risk assessment tool to establish whether insurance claims may be repudiated because of non-compliance with environmental legislation
as a powerful marketing tool
as a corporate governance tool
as a pre-emptive tool to survey compliance status, pending an inspection by government and statutory officials and inspectors, or certification bodies
as a transparency tool allowing meaningful community and NGO participation
as an environmental management tool to implement environmental compliance, health and safety and other related management programmes
as a sanity check on outside services and consultants
and more...
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