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LRQA talks to world’s leading management systems expert

20th Jan 2012 by JChowdhury

Professor Toffel conducts research on corporate environmental sustainability and examines companies’ environmental, safety, and quality programs. His work seeks to identify which voluntary programs and management standards actually distinguish participating companies as having superior environmental, safety, or quality management or performance, and which of these programs help companies improve their performance in these areas. His [...]

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Express Rail Link Malaysia achieves ISO 9001 certification

5th Dec 2011

ERL has just been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for the scope provision of rail services between KLIA and KL Sentral by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance.

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Good quality improves business performance; bad quality damages it

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…

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Continuous Improvement – Plan, Do, Check, Act

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.

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Quality Beyond Compliance

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.

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Applying ISO 9001 and ISO 9004

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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New ISO 9001:2008 Standard Published – what does it mean to you?

15th Dec 2009

This on-demand webinar provides information on the new ISO 9001:2008 standard, including a brief of the changes from the 2000 version and how these changes may impact your management system.

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Inspection Company to Attain Latest ISO Certification

16th Oct 2009

PII Pipeline Solutions Gains Early ISO 9001 Certification; Only Operator Globally to Attain ISO/TS 29001
HOUSTON, TEXAS—October 14, 2009—Building on its tradition of leadership in safety and quality
compliance within the global pipeline industry, GE Oil & Gas, PII Pipeline Solutions announces that it
has successfully attained third-party certification to the latest internationally recognized quality
management system standard, ISO 9001: 2008.

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TOMAL® identifies QMS certification as a key business strategy during major economic changes

4th Jun 2009

TOMAL® identifies QMS certification as a key business strategy during major economic changes New LRQA and TOMAL® Case study looks at how the Quality Management System (QMS) implemenetd by TOMAL with the support of LRQA’s Business Assurance approach helped them get through a difficult time.

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LRQA Management Systems Video Podcast Series, Episode 1

16th Feb 2009 by Alex Briggs

In this video interview, Joe Goasdoué, the CEO of the BQF, talked to www.businessassurance.com about helping organisations through these difficult economic times. We talked to him during the BQF Awards Ceremony, held at the Lloyd’s Register HQ in London.
He also talked about the importance of certification and of Business Continuity for organisations during the credit crunch.

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