Strytex - Contractor assurance and GRC (governance, risk and compliance)

August 1, 2019

Baseline data: Trust your installer but verify

How often have you received a one-sentence Installation and Commissioning certificate that simply states “We certify that we have installed and tested XYZ according to the standard ABC (or manufacturer’s instructions)“. I’m afraid these bland, one-line statements are simply not good enough! Buyers need to demand that installers include the baseline data as part of the […]

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October 31, 2018

87% of your fire and smoke doors are probably non-compliant!

In 2008, a study by R Doleman (see below) found that 87% of 160 audited fire and smoke doors were non-compliant with over 935 failure items! (Approx reading time: less than 6 mins) Robert, thank you for your study because it proves what we’ve been thinking for a long time: some contractors are just not up to the […]

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October 19, 2018

The 6 worst mistakes we’ve seen in supplier reports

We track thousands of certificates for our clients and have seen quite a few bad quality documents. Had an absolute classic one a few days ago, so I thought I’d list six of the worst mistakes we’ve seen. Do you recognise them? Do you have any horror stories? 1. No date This was the recent […]

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July 17, 2017

Maintenance schedules and regulations need to go the way of the dinosaur

Because of IoT, many maintenance schedules will soon go the way of the dinosaur. So what happens to the thousands of national and international standards and regulations that define maintenance schedules? The inevitable rise of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) Up front costs for CBM have been seen as too expensive but the explosion of IoT […]

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May 16, 2017

A Decison Tree for SWMS, JSAs and SWPs

Last week I wrote an article “Can we please get SWMS, JSAs, SWPs etc under control?” Rather than just griping, I’ve put together a decision tree that may provide some help for when to use a SWMS (Safe Work Method Statement) and when to use a JSA (Job Safety Analysis) or a SWP (Safe Work […]

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May 10, 2017

Can we please get SWMS, JSAs, SWPs etc under control?

I’ve just stumbled across a couple of websites selling template Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) for activities like carpet cleaning, hand tools etc. and it is driving me crazy. In Australia, SWMS are only required for certain categories of High Risk Construction work (HRCW). If the task is not one of a defined list of […]

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February 8, 2017

A great tip to reduce risk of the unknown – True Negative statements

“False positives” are bad but “True negatives” can remove a lot of guesswork One of our clients recently ran an audit for Hazardous Materials Report for all their managed properties and they discovered a number of buildings have no Hazardous Materials report. They now have to try to work out if these buildings are missing […]

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May 21, 2010

A global survey into Supplier Compliance Management – May 2010

This slide pack summaries the key findings of the survey into the Importance of Supplier Compliance Management carried out by Strytex during May 2010. The results are based on 227 respondents from a range of industries, seniority and regions. The key findings are: 30% of organisations don’t know how often they audit supplier compliance or […]

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