Involve Everyone to Achieving ISO 9001:2015 Meeting the requirements of the latest quality management standard, ISO 9001: 2015, means major changes in adapting to its risk- and opportunity-based approach. Gordon Dunbar, Quality Manager at ETAL Group, explores how this approach requires involvement not just from board room to factory floor, but throughout the organisation’s ecosystem….
A Success Path to Achieve Company Vision, Mission, and Goals: Hadi El Cheikh, Quality Health and Safety Executive Manager at Veolia Water Technologies, Middle East, shares some tips that will help businesses and organisations achieve their ultimate vision. Most organisations’ top management have a vision, but not all of them achieve their strategic planning goals. This…
Changes from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001: The British Standards Institution and CBRE GWS EMEA offer some advice and share the challenges faced by early adopters of the world’s first global health and safety standard. With the publication of ISO 45001:2018, efforts to migrate from BS OHSAS 18001 (Occupational health and safety management systems) to…
Write Effective Nonconformity Statements: Joseph Krolikowski, QMS Technical Director and Auditor at Perry Johnson Registrars, explains why writing non-conformity statements is an essential part of the auditing process. Nonconformities are not usually something that most people are terribly happy to receive during an audit. However, if the nonconformity statement isn’t adequately written it can make…
Changes in Organisational Knowledge on ISO 9001: IRCA Principal Auditor Ramanie Pathirage Chandraratne reveals why the new standard requires auditors to act now in order to improve their understanding. Today we live in a world where change is inevitable. Emerging disruptive technologies give us new opportunities in new markets, while making the current technologies and systems…
Forward Looking Quality Management Standards: Richard Green, CQP FCQI, Managing Director of Kingsford Consultancy Services, UK, provides information on the updates the quality profession could expect to see in the 9000 and 10000 series of quality standards. On Monday 4 May, the ISO Quality Management and Quality Assurance Committee (TC/176) circulated its TC176 future concepts…
