The management systems community
– 19th Jul 2010
A recent article in the ‘Environmentalist’ is by Health Safety and Environment Manager David Doherty and looks the benefits they has experienced by implementing ISO 14001 at his company. He says that the process has delivered ‘a ten-fold payback’.
– 26th Jun 2010
Here is another great article, business and product quality consultant Tom Gaskell, looks at how good quality improves business performance and bad quality damages it and is costly in so many ways. The article looks at how you can audit yourself and continuously improve the way your business runs…
– 25th Jun 2010
A great blog from Tom Gaskell looks at the fundamental principle at the heart of many quality management systems, “Plan – Do – Check – Act”, first championed by Deming in the 1950’s.
– 24th Jun 2010 by Alex Briggs
Health & Safety Managers are increasingly seeing Environmental Management (EM) duties becoming a part of their role. The National Examination Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH) carried out research on UK Health & Safety managers and found that over 40% of them now have EM included in their role profile.
“We’ve seen a dramatic change [...]
Event: 2nd Nov 2010 – 5th Nov 2010
The title of the BARQA 2010 Annual Conference is ‘Quality Beyond Compliance’. The full conference programme will include plenary and parallel sessions, together with workshops and networking opportunities.
– 30th Apr 2010
Case study from LRQA and PDS on PDS’s achievement of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard (Sept 2008) and 89/106/EEC Construction Products Directive to EN 1433:2002.
– 26th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs
The 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer is out, and the results show that consumers want independent verification of corporate claims.
– 19th Apr 2010
ISO have released some helpful information about how ISO 9001 relates to your supply chain:
As someone who is involved in the selection of suppliers and. Possibly, responsible for purchasing decisions, you may have seen or used goods and services that are promoted using reference to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9001:2008, or, more simply, “ISO 9000”. What [...]
– 15th Apr 2010
Document from CarbonSmart where Alan Knight, AccountAbility, talks about best practice assurance and what are the questions companies should ask themselves for their next assurance engagement.
– 12th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs
Organisations are making the link between the security of their online data and the potential risk to their corporate reputation. In a recent Websense study 98% of organisations indicated that they are under pressure from clients to protect data.
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