iCOR – Pioneering software for enhanced protection against environmental prosecution

• Creates environmental compliance obligation registers for UK businesses and manufacturers
• Specifically focuses on ISO14001 clauses that organisations struggle the most with, for example:
  • Clause 6.1.3 Compliance Obligations
    Organisations are required to have access to, and maintain awareness of environmental legislation. Answering to iCOR’s simple audit builds your organisation’s bespoke compliance register.
  • Clause 6.1.4 Planning Action
    This clause looks at how your organisation’s environmental action plan and its implementation into the Environmental Management System (EMS) and the organisations’ processes. iCOR determines the sufficiency of your controls and write your compliance statements, and tells if not all regulatory requirements are met.
  • Section 7 Support
    This section relates to resource allocation, competency, awareness and communication, all supported via iCOR’s Action Planning function, and mechanisms for team collaboration. Often, solutions for compliance when planning action are additional training and communication strategies to support the EMS.
  • Clause 9.1.2 Evaluation of compliance
    Your answers to iCOR’s simple questionnaire about your organisation’s business activities builds a bespoke register and compliance statements to reflect your processes, which can then be certified by ISO auditors. Suggested 1 day per audit, and repeat every 6-12 months.
  • Clause 9.1.1 Monitoring, measuring, analysis and evaluation
    This clause requires the audit results are accurate and consistent for the ease of reporting well-reported and trends detection/identification. iCOR graphically represents the audit results to easily interpret your current ‘status of compliance’ showing areas of conformity, non-conformity, open and closed actions, etc. iCOR’s timeline function also tracks progress over time.
  • Clause 10.2 Non-conformity and corrective action
    This clause states the organisation must implement procedures for the management of non-conformities and consistent corrective behaviour with preventative decisions – iCOR identifies your compliance status. Any Non-Conformities (NC) are transposed into the action planner, allowing the site manager to assign actions, set deadlines and monitor progress. A resolved issue becomes a compliance statement on your register.
    iCOR’s special incident reporting function allows to raise and address environmental concerns outside of the structured audit to ensure that issues are managed pro-actively and evidence is obtained.
  • Clause 10.3 Continual improvement
    An important clause from an ISO14001 perspective – requires continual improvement, best facilitated through internal audits, compliance evaluation, performance assessment, management reviews, etc. To improve, the organisation needs to take action to correct mistakes, innovate, reorganise aspects that don’t work, and continually improve – all of which is supported via iCOR.
• Involves all the necessary staff into action
• Updates your team on all the upcoming legislation relevant to your business

iCOR is co-developed by an expert in environmental legislation with years of environmental consultancy experience. Alongside a digital technology expert,  the knowledge and the thinking process behind generating the compliance audits have been carefully incorporated into iCOR, creating an automated and reliable solution.

“We have been using iCOR for the past two years and have found the process of consolidating our environmental legal compliance obligations into one place an extremely useful exercise for our five UK sites. Having expert monthly reviews on changing and upcoming legislation has also proven invaluable for our business and has allowed us to be proactive in our environmental management programmes. We are excited about the audit and collaboration functions of the platform, as this will streamline activities across our sites further and give us a clear understanding of our risks and opportunities in our journey towards environmental improvement and ultimate sustainability.”

Neil Colman, Group Operations Manager, Kiowa Ltd

Once you have subscribed to the software, iCOR will help you to ensure your business is safe for external environmental auditing and will improve your strategies for reaching  ISO14001 sustainability goals. iCOR’s team provides updates on all the upcoming legislation relevant specifically to your industry to keep you prepared and protected.