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Kiwa will participate in Intersolar Europe, world's leading exhibition for the solar industry, from from 11-13 May, in Munich, Germany. We will be presenting our services dedicated to the Renewable Energy market.

The Safety Culture Ladder (SCL), aims to improve the safety culture within organisations. The SCL does so by means of measuring and encouraging the safety awareness within a company with the purpose of decreasing the number of unsafe situations and therewith should lead to less accidents.

Every gas leak is one too many. Even though not every gas leak poses a direct safety risk, methane is a greenhouse gas and therefore contributes to global warming. Therefore, it is important to detect and reduce gas leaks as effectively as possible. To this end, Kiwa developed the Suction method on behalf of the European Gas Research Group (GERG), of which Kiwa has been a part for many years. To clarify how this new, accurate measuring method works, Kiwa made an explanation video.

Kiwa’s Sjoerd Delnooz, Harald Ophoff, Mariël Hout and Sander Lueb recently visited the headquarters of Gaz Réseau Distribution France (GRDF) in Paris. Like Liander, Stedin and Enexis in the Netherlands, GRDF is responsible for the distribution of natural gas in France. Because France also considers hydrogen to be an important source of renewable energy, Kiwa showed about seventy GRDF employees the main differences between hydrogen and natural gas with the help of the Hydrogen Table.

As in many other European countries, from 1 July 2022, every home in The Netherlands must be equipped with smoke detectors on every floor. This obligation has been applicable to new-build homes since 2003, but will also apply to existing homes from this summer. Although smoke detectors are currently installed in three quarters of homes, millions of new smoke detectors will be purchased as a result of the new legislation. What should you pay attention to when purchasing such a device?

To ensure that quality standards remain relevant and current, they are reviewed at least every five years. For that reason, the ISO 27002 was recently revised. This standard contains the practical guidelines and control measures for management systems for information security (ISMS) that are inextricably linked to the information security standard ISO 27001.

HyDelta aims to take away the technical and scientific barriers that prevent a large-scale implementation of the hydrogen economy in the Netherlands. As one of the consortium members Kiwa takes care of several work packages in which the HyDelta programme is divided. From the first week of February we’ll give a short video update on one of those work packages each Thursday right here.

The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) has published the Delegated Regulation (2022/30/EU), making compliance to the RED (2014/53/EU) articles 3.3 (d), (e) and (f) mandatory for cybersecurity aspects of IoT products. The Delegated Regulation will come in effect on the 1st of February 2022. After a transition period, compliance will become mandatory from 1st of August 2024.

Kiwa and Australian assurance, testing, inspection and certification services provider Intega Group have agreed on a partnership. Intega Group’s focus lies on the infrastructure and energy sectors. The company has over 1,900 employees across 100 offices primarily operating in Australia, the United States, Canada and New Zealand.

Kiwa and Vinçotte, the largest inspection, auditing and certification company in Belgium, are joining forces. This merger enables us to move towards creating a one-stop-shop for TIC services to support clients across the world with a wider range of services.