telephone: 00-44-(0)1327-361782
e-mail: john.craig@girac.co.uk

System Consultants and Researchers

Girac Limited was formed in 1999 to provide management systems advice. It also provides training, workshops, systems set-up and maintenance for companies seeking approval to ISO14001, ISO9001 and BS18001 – no boiler-plates, just systems tailored to the way people want to run their companies.

It has also developed a novel system for companies to evaluate their needs for culture change by system bench-marking through research into how the company actually works through it’s people.

In addition, Girac Limited carries out environmental risk and impact evaluations world-wide, as well as providing consultation on all aspects of potential environmental degradation (including duty of care for site assessments, hazardous waste disposal, remediation of ground contamination, sewage and effluent treatment), and for management and culture change. In addition, the process capability of manufacturing companies is evaluated and advice given on measurement and variation control as a means of saving waste and cost, and increasing profit.

Organizational Research
Dr Mark Lemon and Dr John Craig are engaged in developing new ways of determining and changing culture at the working management interfaces. This approach underpins their belief in the need to take account of ecological, social and economic factors in the drive for corporate sustainability. Read white paper. They have presented their ideas and findings at international conferences and meetings, and in papers for academic journals. Read more
Environment
Dr John Craig has set up, assessed and monitored systems world-wide including running factory workshops on culture and the environment, elimination of heavy metals in production processes and remediation of pollution.
Dr Mark Lemon has expertise in the way that personal, group and organizational cultures affect the way that the degradation of the environment is mediated or prevented, as well as research into the built environment. Read more		 Quality
John has done over 500 audits and assessments of ISO9001 systems world-wide and has given advice on production capability, processes and measurement. He has represented the UK in European arenas in these topics.
Here Mark also has expertise in the cultural issues that affect the take up and implementation of production and quality systems particularly as they affect the sustainability of different industrial sectors and geographical conexts Read more
 
Health & Safety
Companies with certification to ISO14001 should consider BS18001 also as the implications of accidents and loss of production or services, for the responsible person and company, could be onerous (Corporate Manslaughter).
John has been helping countries in Eastern and Central Europe since 1999 to set up management systems to reduce the risk of accidents and bad health, and so to protect the companies against punitive fines and worse. Read more		 News
Turin, Italy -- I've just come out of the most hopeful and interesting discussions of climate change I've ever witnessed. Anchored by Indian food-sovereignty activist Vandana Shiva, the panel discussion at Terra Madre unveiled a new "Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security," drawn up by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture.
The room was packed beyond capacity with at least 400 people, and Read more

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