TEECG provides business consultancy, business risk management, intellectual property, digital marketing, training, ISO certification services, Halal consultancy and MSPO Certification and improvement in order to demonstrate business stability, enhance product and service quality as well as competitive edge.
Our knowledge in the industry allows us to assist you and your business needs and assist you in every step of the way. TEECG are qualified in our strategically crafted consulting and training method in order to be in a good position to provide our clients with a high degree of continuity and quality services.
- Business Advisory Services
- Franchising & Licensing
- Business Risk Management
- Intellectual Property
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems
- ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems, HACCP, GMP
- ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
- ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories
- ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems
- ISO 15189:2012 Medical Laboratories – Requirements for Quality and Competence
- ISO 13485:2016 Medical Devices Quality Management Systems
- ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management Systems
- HALAL Consultancy
- Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO)
Business Advisory Services
Are you planning to start a business soon? Malaysia is a country with steady economic growth, and is therefore encouraging an increase in investment opportunities in Malaysia. Our knowledge in the industry allows our business consultant to assist you and your business needs and assist you in every step of the way.
Franchising & Licensing
There is no right or wrong in choosing either a franchising model or a licensing model in expanding your business. It all rests completely on your needs and goals as a business owner.
Contact us now to schedule a consultation as to which model is suitable for you. We are able to help you in structuring your business model as well as preparing the necessary agreements in expanding your business.
Business Risk Management
TEECG defines, analyses and accesses the risks that follow the operations of a business organization. TEECG then works on solutions to eliminate or minimize the possible risks and deal with them quickly in the unlikely event of their materialization.
Risks are inherent in any environment and company. They cannot be prevented and thus, to mitigate their influence, they must be tackled head-on. In order to come up with a business risk management approach, the first step in risk management is to define risks.
Type of Business Risk Management:
- Financial Risk Management
- Operation Risk Management
- Strategy Risk Management
- Hazard Risk Management
Ensure the confidentiality of your transactions.
We’re happy to help you:
- Ensure that all steps have been taken to comply with laws, legislation and best practices in the industry.
- Achieve quality, protection, expense, scheduling and performance objectives.
- Enhance cost forecasts by the control of reasonable and appropriate contingencies.
- Achieving recognizable milestones in the plan and main performance metrics; including work, fitness, safety and environmental goals.
- Ensure greater clarity about the performance of finance and implementation.
- Ensure greater clarity about the performance of finance and implementation.
- Identify and handle cost overruns, delays, losses of sales, health and safety accidents, quality issues, non-compliance with legislation, contractual conflicts, harm to reputation and frustration of stakeholders at any point of your operations and business activities.
Act now!
Contact us today to find out how a variety of risks can be identified and handled for your programmes, operations and business activities through our business risk management services.
Intellectual Property
With more than a decade of professionalism and excellence in the burgeoning field of Intellectual Property, we aim to ensure the affordable protection (e.g: Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Industrial Design, etc) of your best and brightest ideas domestically and in foreign lands. Our vast overseas network, unique IP packages and competent insider staff (quality assured personnel, agents) combine speed, convenience and quality to give you the peace of mind you need for the safe registration of your inventions and innovations be they big or small.
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ISO 9001
ISO 9001 was designed to be a “generic” management framework, applicable to organizations regardless of size or type. Thus, it’s generally recognized and adopted by manufacturing and service organizations, non-profit organizations, and even governmental departments all over the world. ISO 9001 offers an efficient structure for any company that wishes to continuously provide goods and services that meet the requirements of its customers; and to constantly develop its products, processes and system to increase satisfaction.
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+ ISO 9001:2015 Requirements
There are ten sections for ISO 9001:2015. Three parts of the standard are general knowledge about your business and are not auditable. The seven main auditable parts concentrate on certification:
- Context of the Organization
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance Evaluation
- Improvement
The evolution of the standard brought increased requirements for businesses to demonstrate quality improvement, decreased risk, and, using a process approach, provided an overall emphasis on customer satisfaction.
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+ What is the Process Approach?
ISO 9001 is based on the “process approach” i.e., a chain of added value activities delivering a product or service to a customer (internal or external) of the process. A process focused approach includes:
- Understanding and satisfying client requirements
- Customer satisfaction attention
- Continuing progress
- Application of the “Plan-Do-Check-Act” (PDCA) or equivalent cycle
- Managing systems that are interrelated
- Connections between quality and business strategies and priorities
- Defining and using metrics for processes
- Every organization operates through procedures. ISO 9001 can be extended to the quality control system of any company.
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+ Hundreds of Thousands Have Chosen ISO 9001
There are over a half million organizations worldwide that have adopted and implemented ISO 9001. Organizations implementing ISO 9001 report improved profit, lower employee turnover, better than national performance average on benchmark indicators, and improved effectiveness and efficiency.
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+ Continual Improvement: A Quality Paradigm
The need for continuous improvement in organizations’ quality structures has been well established. What is the most beneficial, tested, and cost-effective solution must be decided by organizations? The practice of aligning quality control processes with business objectives is just as important. Those priorities and targets are likely to include:
- Reduced variation in work practices
- Clear standardized work instructions
- Enhanced intra- and interdepartmental communications
- Practical metrics that reflect progress
- Reduced operating costs
- Error prevention
- Reduced liability exposure and cost
- Top management commitment and support
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+ Advantages of Implementing ISO 9001
The implementation of ISO 9001 can lead to advantages such as:
- Demonstrated loyalty to clients and stakeholders to improve
- “Capability for organization”
- Improved procedures that reduce errors and the chance of reworking
- Increased satisfaction with the client
- An improved organizational reputation by constructive, quality-focused leadership
- A recognized responsibility for, and involvement with, quality by the entire organization
- Better defined processes and sub-processes, including their critical links
- Recognition of deterrents to the productivity and performance of an operation or service
- Established enhancement opportunities
- An increased contribution to the satisfaction of the company with regulatory obligations specifications
- Enhanced employee communications. It may not be immediately evident, but ISO 9001 may also be applied to address items such as: consumer complaints, administrative problems, up / downtime of equipment, and efficiencies of processes.
ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems
ISO 14001 is an Environmental Management Systems (EMS) under international standard. It is designed to provide the company with the components of an effective environmental management system in order to protect the environment and adapt to changing environmental conditions in line with socio-economic needs, which can also be combined with other criteria of the management system.
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+ ISO 14001:2015 Requirements
There are ten parts for ISO 14001:2015. Three sections are general information for your company about the standard and are not auditable. Certification focuses on the seven key auditable sections:
- Context of the Organization
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance Evaluation
- Improvement
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+ Advantages of an Effective Environmental Management System
When your company has implemented an effective EMS, you are able to:
- Assure customers of your commitment to demonstrate environmental management
- Maintain good public/community relations
- Obtain insurance at affordable cost
- Enhance your company image and market share
- Meet vendor certification criteria
- Improve your company’s cost control
- Reduce incidents that result in liability; demonstrate reasonable care
- Conserve input materials and energy
- Facilitate your attainment of necessary permits and authorizations
- Foster the development and sharing of environmental solutions
- Improve your company’s relationships with local, state and the federal government
ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems, HACCP, GMP
ISO 22000:2018 is the latest international standard intended to ensure the global supply of healthy food chains. The aim of ISO 22000, ‘Food safety management systems -Requirements for any food chain organization,’ is to be compliant with the current food safety management tools, ISO 9001:2015 and HACCP, and to expand its scope for greater diligence.
Responsible food producers, like every other business sector, strive to uphold stringent quality standards to ensure that their goods can be consumed by all without fear of health risks. However, with different requirements, food supply chains will stretch across different countries and include several different organizations and subcontractors. Food processing is affected prior to reaching customers by industries ranging from feed suppliers and canners to truckers and retail stores. A single ingredient or poorly run farm, a weak link, can lead to unhealthy food that is harmful to customers. This is a public health threat that can cause tremendous costs for businesses in the food chain and adverse publicity.
ISO 22000 requires all types of organizations to take part in the certification of food safety management systems, as food safety hazards can reach the food chain at any point. Qualified organizations are also those that manufacture the machinery, chemicals, additives, ingredients and packaging involved in food production.
ISO 22000 also expands the effective norm of the ISO 9001 quality management system, which is widely applicable in all industries. The developers correctly predicted that successful food safety programs must be developed and operated within the context of an ISO 9001 accredited quality control system and integrated into the organization’s overall management activities.
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+ Advantages of Seeking ISO 22000 Certification
While ISO 22000 can be implemented on its own, it is designed to be completely ISO 9001 compliant. It would be easy for businesses that have already been ISO 9001 certified to extend this certification to include ISO 22000. ISO 22000 contains a table showing the correspondence of its specifications with those of ISO 9001, to enable users to do so.
ISO 9001 is a standard that can be audited, providing the organization concerned with validation and appreciation. To meet these food safety standards, food service companies can use ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 together or expand their current 9001 scheme. ISO 22000 is organized in line with ISO 9001 ‘s ten clauses. It is worldwide, and can be used for certification and registration by any enterprise within the entire food chain.
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+ Aligned with ISO 9001
As a certified food supplier, you ensure your clients that your goods, ingredients and equipment comply with negotiated requirements, saving time and money for the sales department. These transactions go more smoothly because your reputation for success through an approved registrar has already been established through your registration. Moreover, you gain:
- Increased satisfaction with the client
- Operational changes underway
- Less failures and lower rates of return
- Greater efficiency and performance enhancement
- Simplified and effective reporting
- Greater performance of audit and surveillance
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+ Learn More
Additional information on ISO 22000 can be found in the ISO Catalogue in the ISO Store at http://www.iso.org. The standard includes additional documents, such as:
- ISO/TS 22004, Food safety management systems – Guidance on the application of ISO 22000:2005. This provides important guidance that can assist small and medium-sized food enterprises around the world.
- ISO/TS 22003, Food safety management systems – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of food safety management systems. This will provide rules for auditing a food safety management system and guide registrars that intend to perform ISO 22000 audits. It will be published in the first quarter of 2006.
- ISO 22005, Traceability in the feed and food chain – General principles and guidance for system design and development. This will be circulated as a Draft International Standard.
- In partnership with the International Trade Centre (ITC) – the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – ISO is also preparing an easy-to-use check-list for small businesses and developing countries, entitled ISO 22000: Are you ready?
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+ Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a systematic approach to the detection and control of (i.e. microbiological, chemical or physical) hazards that may pose a danger to healthy food preparation. HACCP encompasses:
- Recognizing what can go wrong
- Planning to stop it
- Make sure that you do so.
In simple terms, the protection of products and supplies coming into a food company and what is done with them afterwards is regulated.
Since 1998, providing a food safety management system based on the principles of HACCP has been a legal requirement for all food companies.
It is possible to fulfil this requirement in a variety of ways that best fit the business. This will vary from the operator of a food business:
- Creation of a systematic framework of HACCP or
- Following a recognized sector guide to good practice
- The proper application of the prerequisite hygiene criteria may be sufficient to monitor all hazards in the case of a company conducting basic food operations (e.g. pre-packaged food services).
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+ Advantages of HACCP
- Framework for the development, implementation and demonstration of a good Food Safety Management System
- Consumer loyalty by providing goods that meet consumer criteria reliably, including consistency, protection and legality.
- Reduced operational costs by minimising the possibility of financial penalties from the recall of goods and thereby ensuring safe distribution of food
- Legal enforcement guarantees enforcement with constitutional, regulatory and contractual for your company.
- Operational efficiency – Improves operational efficiencies by taking a proactive approach by detecting risks, establishing and tracking essential control limits, product tradability, product inspection and validation, and managing non-conformities in line with HACCP plans by enhancing the efficacy of your overall food safety management system.
- Ability to get more business, particularly where procurement specifications require certification as a condition to supply.
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+ Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
GMP or PRP (Prerequisite Program) is for those who are committed to food safety and FSMS standards such as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and ISO 22000. GMP is an absolute must as it provides the basis for the production and implementation of effective Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) as well as food safety assurance.
Good manufacturing practices (GMP) provide several specific conditions of operation and procedures that the food industry requires to comply with. This includes:
- The design and layout of the food premises
- The training given to the staffs
- Adequate maintenance of the instruments and utensils used within the organisation
- Usage of necessary chemicals, including cleaning chemicals, pest control chemicals and machine lubricants inside and around the food premises.
- Recognition and storage of waste inside and by the organisation
- Implementation and efficacy of the method of tradability
- Cleanliness of the premises, appliances, utensils, floors, walls and ceilings for food
- A successful program for pest control
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+ Benefits of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Minimized costs and saved money
- Proof of healthy and reliable handling of food
- Compliance with legal requirements and building trust in customers
- Willingness to exchange globally
- Food culture inside your business
- Reducing statements, returns, reprocessing and refusals
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
In March 2018, ISO 45001:2018- Occupational Health and Safety Management System Specifications was issued by the International Organization for Standardization.This international standard will provide a structure for organisations to enhance employee safety, minimize risks in the workplace and creating cleaner, safer working environments across the globe.
It follows other approaches to the management framework, such as ISO 14001 and ISO 9001, and considers other international standards in this field, such as OHSAS 18001, the ILOOSH Guidelines of the International Labour Organization, different national standards and the international labour standards and conventions of the ILO.
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+ ISO 45001:2018 Highlights
- New Annex SL Structure like other ISO standards
- Internal and external Context of the Organization
- Understanding the expectations and needs of both internal and external Interested Parties
- Emphasis on leadership to ensure support and ongoing commitment from top management down
- Representation and participation from non-managerial workers
- Assessment of risks and opportunities including hazard identification as it relates to the context of the organization
- A more comprehensive method of preparing for achieving targets
- Enhanced access, monitoring, and adequacy of recorded data
- Ensure that the supply chain is managed using the Hierarchy of
- Regulations, including outsourcing, recruitment, and contractors impacting the OH&S management structure.
- On-going, comprehensive performance review of OH&S
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+ Benefits of ISO 45001:2018
- Improving the dedication of management and employee participation
- Providing means of evaluating the success of a programme for health and safety
- Opportunity to incorporate other facets of health and safety, such as staff well-being.
- Improving worker safety by avoiding extreme risks
- Reducing the risk of death, injury and disease in the workforce
- Reducing wage rates and other expenditures for staff, reducing absenteeism, and increasing productivity and morale
- Reducing business property loss and costs associated with idle periods
- Helping to drive down turnover and recruit new employees
- Stimulating staff to constantly strengthen processes
- Enhancement of relationship with OSHA
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories
The general criteria for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories are outlined in ISO/IEC 17025 and are an essential accreditation of competence and consistency.
ISO / IEC 17025:2017 refers, irrespective of the number of employees, to all entities conducting laboratory activities.
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+ What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is a voluntary mechanism under review by third parties. The quality control system of laboratory is extensively reviewed on a regular basis as part of accreditation to ensure continued technical integrity and compliance with ISO / IEC 17025. It can only be laboratory accreditation granted by an accreditation board, or AB.
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+ Advantages of ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation
- Allows laboratories to show that they function competently and achieve accurate results, thus fostering confidence both nationally and around the world in their work.
- Helps to promote collaboration between laboratories and other bodies by creating broader recognition between countries of outcomes.
- Test results and certificates can be approved without the need for additional testing from one country to another, which in turn increases foreign trade.
ISO 37001:2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems
ISO 37001:2016 lays down criteria and offers instructions for the development,implementation, maintenance, analysis and improvement of an anti-bribery management framework. The software can be stand-alone or can be incorporated into an overall framework of management.
ISO 37001:2016 is applicable only to bribery. It defines requirements and provides guidelines for a management framework designed to assist an organisation in preventing, detecting and reacting to bribery and complying with the anti-bribery laws and voluntary obligations applicable to its operations.
ISO 37001 is based on a four-step model and compatible with Enforcement Management Systems’ ISO 19600 standard:
- Plan: identify anti-bribery obligations and evaluate compliance risks in order to develop a strategy, including measures to address any issues
• Do: implement measures and establish mechanisms to monitor their effectiveness
• Check: review the anti-bribery management program on the basis of the controls implemented
• Act: review and improve the program continually, ensuring cases of noncompliance are monitored and examined
Benefits of ISO 37001
- Assists an organisation in introducing an anti-bribery monitoring scheme, or in strengthening its current controls, with the ability to reduce organizational risk and bribery related costs.
- Helps provide confidence that the organisation has applied globally accepted good practice anti-bribery controls to the management and owners of an organization, and its funders, clients and other business associates.
ISO 15189:2012 Medical Laboratories – Requirements for Quality and Competence
In designing their quality control systems and testing their own competence, medical laboratories may use ISO 15189:2012. It may also be used by laboratory clients, regulating authorities and accreditation bodies to confirm or accept the competence of medical laboratories.
Why Getting ISO 15189?
- The only global standard for medical laboratory outcomes accreditation
- Focused on good laboratory procedures
- Based on medical laboratory technical specifications
- Process strategy consistent with the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical stages
- Focused to endorse precise clinical choices
- Data on the identification and traceability of the various stages of the medical laboratory process
ISO 13485:2016 Medical Devices Quality Management Systems
The approved version of ISO 13485:2016 was published on March 1st 2016. The publication date was the beginning of a transition period of three years.
Introduced by the International Organization for Standardization in July 2003, ISO 13485 is accepted worldwide as a precisely developed quality management system standard.
For manufacturers of medical instruments. It was updated by TC 210 and released on 3/1/2016 as ISO 13485:2016.
ISO 13485:2016 is also seen as a critical first step in ensuring that development and design processes consistently product on the basis of the same fundamental principles and clause structure as ISO 9001:2015. Products of quality that satisfy regulatory requirements. ISO 13485:2016 is used to aid in the alignment of quality control processes and regulatory standards for medical devices in organisations participating in one or more phases of a medical device’s life cycle.
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+ Important Aspects of the Standard
The approved version of ISO 13485:2016 was published on March 1st 2016. The publication date was the beginning of a transition period of three years.
Introduced by the International Organization for Standardization in July 2003, ISO 13485 is accepted worldwide as a precisely developed quality management system standard.
For manufacturers of medical instruments. It was updated by TC 210 and released on 3/1/2016 as ISO 13485:2016.
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+ Additional System/Process Specifications
There are eight parts of the ISO 13485:2016 standard. Three parts provide suppliers with general knowledge about the standard and are not auditable. The five main auditable parts concentrate on certification:
- Scheme of Quality Control
- Accountability for management
- Resource Management
- Product Realization
- Measurement, Analysis, and Enhancement
ISO 13485’s additional special points and system/ process specifications include:
- Concentrating on meeting regulatory criteria
- Systems of risk management
- Clinical evaluation and evaluation of medical device performance as needed by national or regional regulations are appropriate for design and development validation
- Material cleanliness and controls for contamination
- Implantable product specifications
- Proper communication of consultative notices
- Further criteria for research and development
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+ Benefits of ISO 13485:2016
- Maintaining global recognition from companies within the medical device industry as the highest performing practices
- Enabling business to operate within different nations and organizations, fulfilling the requisite regulations and obligations
- Helping to create a structured structure for businesses to manage and analyses their processes and customer response
- Providing a system to ensure the maintenance and enhancement of the performance of these processes with the criteria applicable
- Enabling improved efficiency, such as increased revenue, increased timeliness to get goods to the world market, lower prices, less mistakes, less waste, better use of time & resources, and a lower rate of product failure
- Demonstrate compliance with the European Union Directives by developing and independently evaluating the Quality Management Framework.
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+ Who needs ISO 13485?
- Companies that produce and plan to eventually sell private label medical devices in the EU market
- Organizations manufacturing and assembling medical equipment
- Producers of medical components.
- Producers who would like to plan for future regulatory IVC obligations to enter the EU
- Firms that store and/or distribute medical goods.
- Companies that install medical devices
- Companies designing, producing or providing related services (e.g. technical support)
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management Systems
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is available and replaces ISO/IEC 27001:2005, Information Technology – Security Techniques-Information Security Management Systems.
In order to stay secure, the Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a structured approach to handle confidential company information. It includes entities, practices, and IT processes. The international standard provides the basis for an organization to adopt a globally recognized system to manage the protection of its information.
We have exposed ourselves to increased numbers and types of threats with the increased us of new technologies to store, send and retrieve information. In order for each factor to be efficient, the overall approach to Information Security and the integration of various security initiatives needs to be handled. An ISMS enables you to organize your protection efforts efficiently. The introduction of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 will ensure consumers and suppliers that information security within your company is taken seriously and that established procedures are in place to deal with threats and problems of information security.
Who Needs ISMS?
A wide variety of companies, small, medium and large, can use the ISMS standard in most sectors of the commercial and industrial market, such as technology, finance and insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, utilities, retail and manufacturing sectors, different service industries, transportation, government and many others. ISO/IEC 27001:2013, as its predecessor, defines the procedures for the creation, implementation, analysis and monitoring, management and maintenance of a productive ISMS by a company.
Advantages of ISMS
- In all its types, including digital, paper-based, intellectual property, business secrets, computer and cloud data, hard copies and personal information, it helps to manage information.
- It helps the organization protect itself from technology-based risks and other, more prevalent threats, such as poorly informed workers or inadequate procedures.
- Because of the risk evaluation and analysis strategy, it eliminates costs expended on indiscriminately installing layers of additional technologies that may not function.
- To reduce the danger of rapidly changing threats, it continually adapts to changes both in the environment and within the organization.
- It ensures that the protection of information is ingrained in the company, improves the organizational culture and makes procedures successful.
- It focuses on knowledge integrity and availability as well as confidentiality. If the information is accessible but in a format that is not usable due to system disruption, the integrity of that information has been compromised; if the information is protected but inaccessible to those who need to use it as part of their job, then the availability of that information has been compromised.
- In order to ensure its timely resumption, it preserves the availability of information and essential business processes from the impact of major disasters.
- It helps organizations to be considerably more resilient to cyber-attacks.
- Continuous progress, inspection, internal audits and corrective steps ensure that the controls stay up-to-date and operate properly.
HALAL Consultancy
What Exactly is HALAL?
HALAL from 2 Perspectives:
- Islamic Perspective – HALAL is a duty for every Muslim to act and consume
- Industry Perspective – The idea of “Halalan Thoyyiban” offers good business opportunities for all, both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Malaysian Standard for HALAL:
- Akta Perihal Dagangan 197 (Perintah Perihal Dagangan (Penggunaan Perbahasaan HALAL) 1975)
- Akta Makanan 1983 (Kementerian Kesihatan) – Berhubung perlebalan, amalan kebersihan dan keselamatan makanan
- Animal Ordinance 1953 dan Animal Rules 1962 (Jabatan Perkhidmatan Haiwan) – Berhubung penternakan haiwan, kawalan penyakit dll
- Akta Kastam 1988 – Berhubung import/eksport daging HALAL
- Akta/Enakmen Jenayah Syariah – Penandaan HALAL
- Akta Kerajaan Tempatan 1976 (Akta 171) dan Undang-undang Kecil Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan
- Akta Cap Dagangan 1976
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+ A number of firms would ask: Are all firms qualifies to apply for HALAL?
No. In reality HALAL should be used as an important management tool to ensure the protection and quality of your food.
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+ Many are going to ask if I am running small business, can I still get HALAL?
Yes! You can apply for HALAL as long as you have the desire.
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+ Since HALAL is all about food protection, will HALAL be a burden instead of supporting me?
Yes! You can apply for HALAL as long as you have the desire.
Advantages of HALAL Certification
- The HALAL logo is an immediate recognition that a commodity has undergone strict procedures before being approved to consume safely.
- If HALAL goods are exported to other countries, Muslim consumers would automatically be the first buyer, as they are expected to consume only HALAL food.
- HALAL-certified products mean that they are healthy, wholesome and safe to consume and offer customers’ trust.
- The HALAL logo in Malaysia is recognised and well known all over the world. It provides customers with assurance before making a purchase decision.
Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO)
What is MSPO Certification?
As a measure of quality, the MSPO certification program, first introduced in 2015, is increasingly becoming recognized around the world. Its standards were designed to reflect the realities of the oil palm industry and address the concerns that stakeholders have expressed. The environmental, social and economic aspects of palm oil production are discussed by MSPO certification. The importance of managing these factors for the benefit of those concerned is also recorded.
Certification by MSPO encompasses al aspects of the processing of palm oil, from the field to the finished product. It involves general principles as well as strict criteria for all parties involved in the production of palm oil, from the independent family farmers who tent the trees that product the oil-rich fruit to the organizations that help these smallholders to the oil-processing palm oil mills.
The MSPO Standards (MS 2530:2013 series) consists of 4 (four) parts:
Part 1: General Principles
Part 2: General Principles for Smallholders
Part 3: General Principles for Palm Oil Plantations and Organized Smallholders
Part 4: General Principles for Palm Oil Mills
The MSPO standards cover seven areas:
- Management commitment and responsibility
- Transparency
- Compliance to legal requirements
- Social responsibility, safety and employment conditions
- Environment, natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Best practices
- Development of new plantings
Advantages of MSPO:
- Improving standards of management
- Promotion of sustainable management of forest
- Improvement of biodiversity
- Social enhancement
- Improved performance which leads to economic benefits
- Adherence to health and safety policies
- Compliance with legal and contractor specifications
- Access to new and existing markets