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Leveraging IS/ISO 37001: 2016 – Anti-bribery Management System (ABMS) for combatting bribery- a step towards moving Beyond Compliance

Bribery a Significant Impediment to Socio-Economic Progress: Global prospective Bribery is a pervasive problem that transcends borders and can said to be the most widespread and predominant white-collar crime. Despite all this, some argue that it’s often justified with statements like “it’s inevitable,” “everyone does it,” “it’s the cost of doing business,” “it doesn’t matter,” and “nobody gets hurt.” But is this really the case? The fact is Bribery is far...

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BIS Labs

LABORATORY One of the main pillars of conformity assessment is testing of products to ascertain its conformity to relevant Indian Standards. BIS has established laboratories in the country to cater to the testing need of samples generated from its Conformity Assessment Schemes. Starting with the establishment of Central Laboratory at Sahibabad in 1962, BIS added another four Regional Laboratories at Mohali, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai and five Branch Laboratories at Patna, Bangalore, Guwahati, Jammu and Hyderabad. BIS laboratories have...

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Flame Producing Lighters

One of the main pillars of conformity assessment is testing of products to ascertain its conformity to relevant Indian Standards. BIS has established laboratories in the country to cater to the testing need of samples generated from its Conformity Assessment Schemes. Starting with the establishment of Central Laboratory at Sahibabad in 1962, BIS added another four Regional Laboratories at Mohali, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai and five Branch Laboratories at Patna, Bangalore, Guwahati, Jammu and Hyderabad. BIS laboratories have facilities...

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Embracing IS/ISO 26000:2010 for Advancing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG)

As we all know, Sustainable development involves a development strategy that balances current necessities with the preservation of future generations’ capacity to fulfil their own needs. It encompasses three pillars of sustainability and strives to tackle diverse social, environmental and economic challenges to advance the cause of sustainable development. Sustainability is a multi-dimensional and critical parameter towards the existence or extinction of all. Achieving this objective requires a collaborative effort, which was foreseen...

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