Search function is great isn't Rob- glad I am not the only one that suffers. I will pm you. Stuart

Why are you creating a register? There is no requirement to do so. There are several ways to comply with 4.5,2 and 4.3.2. As soon as you go down the register road, you have to manage it constantly. Think, audits, inspections, tours, general observations and trend analysis. Build a picture of compliance over time and and link with your activities and record the findings - good and bad. Link your objectives and targets to continual .

This any good to you: ec.europa.eu/environment/emas/toolkit/downloads/5_2_legal_register.rtf‎

Rob, There is no requirement for a legal register. Don't be press-ganged by anyone, including your certification body, to go down this route. Its a myth. Compliance can be achieved by a variety of methods, refer to 18002. A variety of inputs can be used to assess compliance, including: —— audits, —— the results of regulatory inspections, —— analysis of legal and other requirements, —— reviews of documents and/or records of incidents and risk assessments, —— interviews, —— facility, equipment and area inspections, —— project or work reviews, —— analysis of test results from monitoring and testing, —— facility tours and/or direct observations. In addition, keep records of the above and include the significant stuff in management reviews (in whatever form they take). There are plenty of FOC resources that will provide legislation / sector specific updates. HSE IOSH CEDREC EA SEPA You can also link up to OPSI for reference to legislation direct. Entirely up to you, however registers are just another thing to go out of date....

I agree with Garfield, but persuading cert bodies is different. Had a list for 14001, no list for 18001. I was able to use my qualifications as the basis we new what legislation applied to us. Same argument did not work for the Environmental guy. I actually produced a list for H&S in the end ( just for the hell of it) Listed the legislation in a spreadsheet and noted the parts that applied to the company and what we did or what other system document covered it. Also noted the all important review date. By the way OPSI is now Legislation.gov.uk Chris

Consider buying compliance software that will create the register for you. All you have to do is answer a few questions about your business and the software will put together a register of all relevant legislation. It will also keep you updated with upcoming changes in legislation etc making it easy to manage. There's nothing worse than trying to maintain a spreadsheet. We use Simplifi Solutions but there are other packages available. Most of which will offer you a free trial.

Hilary As a pedantic auditor I would select one of the list that probably does not apply to your business and ask you for evidence of compliance. The answer that it does not apply means that you have created a non conformance in some manner. Total lists are of no use whatsoever. My favourite question when the total listing of all legislation is offered asks for you to explain how the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 applies to your business and how you then comply with its requirements. Bob

boblewis My post did say a list of: "all the Laws, Regulations and Orders that apply to our organisation" and at the moment we have no badgers. Please rest assured that if badgers move into the site I will make allowance for this and add said Act to our list of applicable Laws.

We had to change our legislation register when an auditor asked a similar question about being compliant with legislation that does not apply to the organization. All they were after was evidence that we had reviewed the legislation and then determined that it did not apply. Never went quite as far as the protection of badgers but ultimately made the register a lot bigger than it possibly needs to be.

I'd be more inclined to change auditor. It's a list of all the legislation that applies, not a list of all the legislation. I'm not going to read every item of legislation and document that it does not apply. (I hope your auditor's employer has been through the A14 Trunk Road (Junction 55 Copdock Mill Interchange, Ipswich, Suffolk) Eastbound Entry Slip Road (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order 2013 and documented that it doesn't apply to their operations.)

My thoughts exactly. we didn't have to list every item of legislation in force just now. Only the ones relevant to our industry. A lot of this is also environmental legislation as the register is a combination of H&S and E.

On one of my projects we haven't awarded the badger mitigation contract yet, but we do have ground investigation, invasive archaeology, bat + red squirrel mitigation and hydrological and hydrogeological monitoring contracts all out of site at present. Not sure whether they've finished demolishing a school (have finished the asbestos removal). So if we decide to maintain a legislative register, it would be a very long document!