Meet Your Auditors: Yordas’ Regulatory Compliance Auditing Services
Enjoy reading our interview with Yordas auditors about their team and the services they provide to our clients.
What are the key regulatory challenges your team helps clients navigate in various industries Yordas provides services for?
David: In the global monitoring team, we help a range of clients keep abreast of current and emerging regulations, including draft regulations and consultations. Our services provide regular updates on the regulatory process from every country in the world, keeping our clients in the loop regarding regulations impacting their operations.
We provide custom monitoring services for each of our clients, tailored to their industry and desired scope. Our outputs are designed to ensure our clients are able to identify how their operations may be impacted, and to ensure the relevant information reaches the right hands.
We assist our clients in:
Global regulatory monitoring and horizon scanning
Regulatory advice, including ad hoc queries and questions
Fact sheets, regulatory summaries and impact assessments
Custom software solutions
Restricted and declarable substance lists
Automated data extraction, management and manipulation
Nathan: Yordas Group's hazard communication team helps clients navigate a range of regulatory challenges across various industries as GHS has a wide breadth of impacts.
We assist our clients in:
Classification of substances/mixtures in accordance with GHS and global regulatory implementations
SDS, eSDS and labelling authoring and maintenance that comply with regulatory standards in global regions
Auditing of Hazard Communication practices: ensuring our clients implement chemical management systems to remain compliant with
Hayley: Yordas Biocide and Product services team assist clients with ensuring compliance with various biocide legislation across the globe including GB BPR, EU BPR and US FIFRA to ensure the continued marketing of customer products. Within this team we also deal with other product specific legislation such as for cosmetic, medical devices and OSPAR products. This can include helping clients with the regulatory impact on research and development of products and knowledge gain in order to market their product to the submission of required registrations.
We assist our clients in:
Determining the classification of their product and requirements to market, costs timelines and strategy to compliance
Review of labels and claims to ensure compliance with applicable regulations
Acting as representative for a company to implement requirements in EU/UK/Turkey/ Canada
Acting as Authorisation Holder/ Responsible Person for regulatory submissions
Preparation and submission of required authorisations, approvals and renewals and ongoing support
Review of client portfolio audits to determine compliance and any data gaps
Stakeholder communication
Ad Hoc queries and questions
Regulatory status monitoring
Laura: The Yordas Regulatory Monitoring team provides clients with tailored, customised support in navigating the regulatory landscape. We track emerging regulations (drafts, pre-drafts, consultations, and potential new regulations) and keep our clients updated on the changes that affect them. This includes chemical regulations in every country in the world. If there’s something new or something that’s changing, we know about it.
Our custom-based approach ensures that clients receive a service adapted to their requirements. We save our clients time and resources, as our team filters through complex and extensive legislation to find risks before they escalate. This can help clients to avoid costly penalties and enables them to understand their current obligations, and anticipate future ones. Our proactive approach ensures that clients are not caught off guard by new obligations, enabling them to remain informed and compliant. As a result of our services, clients can notify their teams about emerging regulations which may impact their business.
We assist our clients in:
Global regulatory monitoring and horizon scanning
Regulatory advice, including ad hoc queries and questions
Fact sheets, regulatory summaries and impact assessments
Custom software solutions
Restricted and declarable substance lists
Automated data extraction, management and manipulation
How does your auditing process ensure clients meet regulatory requirements while optimising operational efficiency?
Hayley: Clients can include us from the very beginning from conception to completion of regulatory strategy to compliance for their products. Involving us from the start ensures your product marketability as we can determine changes to your product claims and formulation and how this impacts the regulatory path for your product . Then we can continue to support through regulatory monitoring and stakeholder communication.
Other clients with existing product portfolios can ensure their compliance through auditing. The client can share their product information for us to review and assess to determine product compliance with applicable regulation. This will often involve determining applicable regulation, regulatory status of substances within their formulation and its impact to marketing, then review of the clients information (labels, SDS, regulatory approvals) to determine whether sufficient regulatory approval/ information is available. This allows us to pinpoint any non-compliance or products that require attention and we can work with the client to instil compliance.
Laura: Our auditing process is always tailored to the needs of the client and can take multiple forms. From reviewing product information, to virtual and in-person discussions, we enable clients to select a process that suits their needs. We provide ongoing support, serving as a point of call for any questions that may arise. In doing so, we support our clients in meeting stakeholder demands.
In addition, we can identify high priority issues before they escalate and work with clients to find the most effective solutions for their business, minimising potential disruption to the supply chain. Upon completion of an audit, we provide a concise and actionable summary of suggested actions, in both the present and future. In these reports, we can classify our findings into non-compliances and recommendations, to ensure that clients have a clear and actionable understanding of legal obligations and suggested best practices.
Can you share a success story where your audit services significantly benefited a client's compliance posture or operational effectiveness?
Hayley: A client had a portfolio of 43 products that had been historically looked after by a predecessor and since had not been maintained. Yordas reviewed all the client's product information and determined the regulatory compliance issues. Yordas delivered the strategy for compliance and submitted the required updates/ approvals and renewals for the products the client wanted to continue to market and continue to support and maintain their portfolio.
Laura: During a review of 20 products, we identified the absence of a chemical management system at our client’s site. This brought chemical management, and the importance of regulatory monitoring, to the attention of senior company personnel who were able to identify methods of enhanced data sharing and required company procedures. In addition, our client gained an understanding of upcoming reporting obligations that they would have otherwise been unaware of. This ensured that they could plan for the requirements and inform their supply chain.
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About our expert auditors
David Seed, Product Stewardship Regulatory Consultant
David joined Yordas Group in 2023 as a Regulatory Consultant, with previous experience in business insight and a Masters Degree in chemistry. Working as part of the Product Stewardship team, David works with clients from a wide variety of industries, helping to ensure their compliance with the regulatory landscape. As part of his role at Yordas Group, David closely monitors worldwide regulations, providing clients with updates on relevant developments, providing specific advice on regulatory queries, and helping to develop Yordas’s capabilities and tools regarding chemical compliance.
Simone Wagner, Principal Regulatory Consultant
Simone is a state certified food chemist and Principal Regulatory Consultant with over 13 years’ industry experience managing regulatory, chemical and product compliance for FMCG. She has extensive knowledge of chemical and consumer goods related regulations and supports global notification projects in Yordas. She brings expertise in regulatory audits from industry point of view but also as auditor covering global markets.
Nathan Town-Field, Senior Regulatory Consultant
Nathan Town-Field is a Senior Regulatory Consultant at Yordas, with a focus on global hazard communication. With six years of expertise in GHS and CLP classification and labelling of substances and mixtures, Nathan is well-versed in navigating the complex regulatory landscape surrounding chemical safety. A key responsibility for Nathan leading the team responsible for authoring Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to global standards, ensuring that they accurately communicate the hazards associated with chemicals and provide essential safety information to downstream users. Additionally, he is proficient in poison centre notification obligations, and as Yordas' lead eSDS author, Nathan plays a crucial role in extracting exposure scenarios from various sources.
Hayley Lewis, Managing Regulatory Consultant
Hayley is a Senior Consultant with experience on BPR and CLP regulations. Hayley has more than 9 years of experience as a development chemist and quality manager within the fine and speciality chemical sectors. She brings expertise in regulatory audits against various ISO standards and how these apply to the realities of chemical manufacturers.
Laura Brown, Regulatory Consultant
Laura is a Regulatory Consultant with 3+ years of industry experience in regulatory monitoring, consultancy and product stewardship. She joined Yordas in 2020 during the completion of her Masters (MArts) degree in Geography at Lancaster University. With expertise in automotive regulations, Laura works with clients to tailor chemical and product compliance audits to their needs. She has worked on audit projects covering global markets, including EU REACH, US TSCA, the Australian Industrial Chemicals Act, and workplace health and safety regulations.
