Category: News
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New European Regulations on F-Gas and Ozone depleting substances
On 3rd and 11th March 2024 two new European Regulations on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gas) and ozone depleting substances (ODS) came into force and revoked and replaced existing regulations. Regulation (EU) 2024/573, on fluorinated greenhouse gases, and Regulation (EU) 2024/590, on substances that deplete the ozone layer now apply in the EU but have relevance…
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1,646 people trained by ISSL in 2023
Independent Safety Services Limited trained 1,646 people in correct waste management and dangerous goods practices in 2023. This will ensure that staff are aware of correct and legal practices with regards to waste management, including segregation, and carriage of dangerous goods. Since February 2011, ISSL has trained 12,660 people. Clients include hospitals, primary care trusts,…
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ISSL Has Trained a Total of 8,933 People in Waste Management and Dangerous Goods
Independent Safety Services Limited has trained 726 people in correct waste management and dangerous goods practices so far in 2019. This will ensure that staff are aware of correct and legal practices with regards to waste management, including segregation, and carriage of dangerous goods. Since February 2011, ISSL has trained 8,933 people. Clients include hospitals,…
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ISSL Has Trained a Total of 7,938 People in Waste Management and Dangerous Goods
Independent Safety Services Limited has trained 1,137 people in correct waste management and dangerous goods practices so far in 2018. This already surpasses the number trained in 2017. This will ensure that staff are aware of correct and legal practices with regards to waste management, including segregation, and carriage of dangerous goods. Since February 2011,…
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ISSL Has Trained a Total of 7,630 People in Waste Management and Dangerous Goods
Independent Safety Services Limited trained 1,016 people in correct waste management and dangerous goods practices during 2017 and has totalled 829 in 2018 so far. Since February 2011, ISSL has trained 7,630 people. Clients include hospitals, primary care trusts, mental health institutions, prison services, teaching hospitals, medical research laboratories and private health providers. The training…
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ISSL Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice explains in detail the types of personal data ISSL may collect about you when you interact with us. It also explains how we’ll store and handle that data, and keep it safe. The law on data processing sets out a number of reasons for which a company may collect and process data.…
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CIWM Journal Article on Managing Sharps Waste
Independent Safety Services Ltd’s (ISSL) Technical Director, Dr. Anne Woolridge, has written an article in the monthly CIWM Journal on the international perspective on how to manage sharps waste. The article, published in the February 2018 journal, is written on behalf of ISWA, the International Solid Waste Association, of which Dr. Anne Woolridge is…
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CIWM Certification
Independent Safety Services Limited is pleased to announce that Matthew Smith, Waste Management Consultant and Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser, has obtained full corporate membership of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). Matthew has been a member of CIWM since 2011 when he entered as a student member. He joins ISSL employees Dr. Anne Woolridge…
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ISSL Has Trained a Total of 6,916 People in Waste Management and Dangerous Goods
Independent Safety Services Limited trained 1,016 people in correct waste management and dangerous goods practices during 2017. Overall, 115 have been trained so far in 2018. Since February 2011, ISSL has trained 6,916 people. Clients include hospitals, primary care trusts, mental health institutions, prison services, teaching hospitals, medical research laboratories and private health providers. The…
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Industry Guidance on Misclassification of Waste Re-published
The waste and resource management industry has recently re-published an easy to use guide on common misconceptions in waste classification and how they can be avoided. The guidance has been put together by the waste industry classification group, a collection of industry specialists of which our own Dr Anne Woolridge is a member, to aid…