ISO/TS 26030 and Digital Inspection Improving Food Chain Responsibility

 

ISO/TS 26030 outlines contribution possibilities for sustainable development spanning local laws, stakeholder expectations and larger regulations. Organisations and businesses such as farms, cooperatives, retailers, wholesalers, food companies or processors can all develop socially responsible and sustainable activities and operations, no matter their location or size. ISO Manager Sandrine Espeillac, head of the committee that developed the guidance noted that ISO/TS 26030 will “have a positive impact on society as a whole” and that it helps organisations to “contribute to many of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals”. In light of ISO/TS 26030 being released to the global food industry, it is also important to note the requirements that modern assessment and monitoring of socially responsible activities require top inspection methods. For this many organisations and businesses are choosing to pair ISO/TS 26030 with paperless inspection solutions.

 

Digital inspection solutions can work hand in hand with ISO/TS 26030, simplifying the management and assessment of whether employees or an entire organisation is working with social responsibility goals in mind. Activities and operations can quickly be found to not comply with IS/TS 26030 or any other industry standard. By integrating these standards and regulations directly with the paperless checklist or digital form, it is easier to gain data and insights into how the standards are being used throughout the business. This also allows the audit trail to be greatly simplified and streamlined, allowing a quick process for management to follow. Employees and other stakeholders can directly make use of standards as reference material on the paperless checklist and highlight possible deficiencies in line with or that violate the industry guidelines. This can then be shared with the management for the audit trail but also with other employees and stakeholders to highlight things to watch out for, or simply encourage best practice. It’s clear to many businesses and organisations however large or small that industrial standards such as ISO/TS 26030 can only be best utilised when they have a powerful paperless inspection system to use it alongside. Today that means making use of mobile devices and paperless inspection applications. 

 

To learn more about ISO/TS 26030, please visit: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:ts:26030:ed-1:v1:en