Meeting Legal Statuary and Regulatory Requirements Query

Hi everyone,

I'm implementing ISO 9001 at a dealership and distribution company and was wondering the extent necessary of documenting that we are meeting Legal statuary and regulatory requirements.

This is my plan, what do you guys think?

I have an excel document ' Register of compliance' There are two tabs.

Tab 1 - Certificates licenses and permits. headings are as follows:
Certifying Body/ Document/ Expiry date/Scope of the Certificate/Certificate/Licence no./Department - Responsibility/Remarks
This will be a live document and updated when managers notify my of new certificates (the managers are responsible for managing their department's compliance)

Tab 2 - Laws (i'm thinking here to state all the Laws applicable to my company and the manager(s) responsible to ensure compliance.

Suraiya

 

I believe your company just need to keep updated records of compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements. Since you mentioned that there are managers who are responsible to ensure compliance, IMHO, maintaining a register (and if you're the one responsible for that) might relieve your managers the responsibility they are tasked to bear.

 

This is our scope:

Scope – Location 1
The provision of marketing, sales and distribution for light and heavy duty automobiles; agricultural & industrial machinery and implements, batteries, tyres and lubricants; safety and hygienic solutions; office products; crop care; auto rental; and related after sales services; to retail and consumer markets, in compliance with all required guidelines from Principals.

Scope – Location 2 + 3
The sales and distribution for light and heavy duty automobiles; agricultural & industrial machinery and implements; batteries, tyres, lubricants and gases; safety and hygienic solutions; office products; crop care solutions and the provision of related after sales services.

Scope – Location 4
The provision of auto rental services to end users in compliance with Principal Requirements

 

I am now in the process of figuring that out. Each manager is to let me know.

So far there are basically import permits that are required (particularly for crop care as it deals with dangerous chemicals), storage permits, distribution permits.

but aside from that, is it necessary to track building permits e.g. fire safety permits? OSHA permits? to what extent do i need to document?

 

There are regulatory requirements that your organization need to secure every transaction (e.g. import permits), some periodical (e.g. fire safety permits) and some at major activities (e.g. building permit). If your organization designates you as their compliance officer, a monitoring tool could help you in keeping track. But if the responsibilities to ensure compliance are spread out to various point persons, maintaining that monitoring tool will definitely add-up to your existing functions. Anyway, it's your call.

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Much appreciated.

Suraiya