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.
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.
– 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.
– 18th Feb 2010
ISO 22000, PAS 220 and FSSC 22000 are changing the world of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) assessments.
– 18th Feb 2010
The 60 minute webinar delivered by a leading Food safety expert, featured over 175 delegates. Find out more and view the recorded webinar.
– 31st Jan 2010
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a system you can set in place to manage your current and future environmental impact.
– 31st Jan 2010
This is the second blog revisiting my 9/11 Disaster Preparedness article in the February 2002 issue of Quality Progress.
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