• Dutch infrastructure specialist Van Vulpen ensures safe working at SCL level 4

    13 April 2023

    With the Safety Culture Ladder (SCL) organizations can gradually increase their employees' safety awareness and reduce the number of accidents in the workplace. This is still necessary, even in civil engineering, where Dutch infrastructure specialist Van Vulpen is active. The company has been certified at SCL level 4 for several years. Jaco van der Ree, a safety expert at Van Vulpen, explains more about it.

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  • Relocation of Vinçotte Agro & Food from Zwolle to Kiwa in Apeldoorn

    27 March 2023

    Vinçotte Agro & Food is relocating. Starting from 3 April 2023, the visiting address will no longer be in Zwolle but in Apeldoorn. This is how we further shape the collaboration of Vinçotte and Kiwa, which started last year. From Apeldoorn, Vinçotte's agro and food experts can serve you even better together with their Kiwa colleagues.

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  • ‘ISO 27001 gives us that crucial edge over the competition’

    20 March 2023

    Dutch start-up Nedscaper provides Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) services from the cloud. With this, the young company fully relieves customers when it comes to detecting and limiting cyber risks. Nedscaper also supports organizations that want to organize their own cyber security and provides compliance services. Lead compliance consultant Steijn Scheutjens explains how Nedscaper deals with digital information and recently saw its efforts in this area awarded with an ISO 27001 certification.

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  • Whitepaper: Hydrogen odorization

    16 March 2023

    In natural gas distribution, odorization contributes to a high level of safety and this will be no different for hydrogen distribution. In this whitepaper Kiwa’s expert odorization Erik Polman takes a closer look at the odorization of hydrogen. What exactly is an odorant? What types of odorants are there? And how do we know whether a certain odorant is sufficient? The paper outlines what experience has already been gained in determining an odorant for hydrogen and also discusses the challenges that remain.

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  • In 7 steps towards ISO 27001:2022

    24 February 2023

    ISO 27001, the globally recognized standard for information security, underwent an update. The revised standard ISO 27001:2022 was published on 25 October 2022 and contains several technical corrections and a completely revised Annex A. A transition period of three years applies to the renewed standard, which means that certified organizations must have transferred by November 1st 2025, at the latest. Below are the seven necessary steps before executing the transition audit.

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  • IT assurance reporting increasingly popular, but what exactly is it?

    2 February 2023

    The growing number of requirements for information and IT security instigates more and more organizations to demonstrate that they have done everything within reach to comply with applicable laws and regulations and that they work according to recognized quality and information security standards. In addition to certification in accordance with the ISO 27001 standard for information security, an increasing number of organizations is opting for IT assurance reports such as ISAE 3402 and SOC 2.

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  • Kiwa officially accredited for ISO 27001:2022

    1 February 2023

    The Accreditation Council (RvA) has accredited Kiwa as of the 1st of February 2023 for assessment according to the ISO 27001:2022 standard for information security. This means that as of the 1st of March 2023 Kiwa may issue recognized certificates according to the latest version of ISO 27001. A transition period of three years applies to ISO 27001:2022. Certified organizations must therefore have transitioned by the 1st of November 2025.

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  • New year, new name: Telefication rebrands to Kiwa

    23 January 2023

    From January 2023 Telefication B.V. will transfer all certification services to the Kiwa brand. Within the next few weeks the Telefication.com website will also be entirely transferred to Kiwa.com. Hence Kiwa Nederland B.V. has taken over all rights and responsibilities from Telefication B.V..

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