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ley hill solutions improves the way your organisation performs by developing solutions that are right for you.
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These courses are designed to bring people already skilled and experienced in the older versions of these standards fully up to date.  With course tutor and course materials supplied by our partner and premier provider SGS, we feel they represent outstanding value for money at £750 for the full three days covering both standards.
Click here to learn more about the content and nature of the courses and/or to register for the one starting on 19th January 2016 at Chartridge Park Golf Club, Chesham, Bucks. |
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Newsletter - January 2016
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I hope you had a very good festive season and would like to wish you a
Happy New Year and all the very best for 2016. Have some fun with our New Year Quick Quiz below.
Whether or not you made any New Year resolutions, the start of a new year is always a good time to look ahead and see what things need to be focused on in the coming months.
If you have been using the ISO 9001 and/or 14001 Standards, one of these might well be to update your skills and knowledge to take account of the new 2015 versions, published towards the end of last year. (See our October Newsletter for more details about the changes and time scales for migrating from the old to the new versions).
With this in mind we are shortly running a transition training course aimed at bringing up to date those people who already have experience of using or auditing against older versions of one or both of these Standards. We still have a small number of places available on the course, which runs from the 19th to the 21st January 2016 (see our article to the left for more information). Do contact us if you are interested.
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NEW YEAR QUICK QUIZ
Questions
1. When and in what country did New Year celebrations first begin?2. How long has New Year's day (January 1st) been a bank holiday in the UK?
3. What are the origins of New Year resolutions?
Answers
1.The earliest recording of a New Year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia (roughly the area that is now Iraq, Kuwait and Syria) about 2000 B.C. In this and other ancient cultures such as the Egyptians and ancient Greeks, it was related to seasonal and astrological events such as the vernal equinox and winter solstice. After the introduction of the Julian calendar in 46 B.C., the 1st January then became consistently accepted and celebrated as the start of the New Year throughout the Roman world. This practice was abolished for a while in medieval Christian Europe because of its association with paganism, but was re-instated in Catholic Europe following the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, though not in Britain until 1752
2. New Year's Day was made a Bank Holiday in Scotland in 1871, but England, Wales and Northern Ireland had to wait over another hundred years until 1974.
3. Although it is uncertain when the modern practice first began, its origins can be traced to ancient religious rites associated with the New Year e.g.
- Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year that they would return borrowed objects and pay their debts
- the Romans began each year by making promises to the god Janus, after whom the month of January is named
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Sincerely,
Graham Hull
ley hill solutions limited |
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