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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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Nine out of 10 consumers believe number of food recalls are rising

28th Apr 2010

A recent article on foodbusinessnews.net looks at the recent Deloitte’s 2010 Food Safety Survey results which shows that nine out of 10 consumers believe the number of food recalls initiated are on the rise.

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How ISO 9001 relates to your supply chain

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”. [...]

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Food Safety Summit

Event: 12th Apr 2010 – 14th Apr 2010

Food Safety Summit is the largest and most established food safety and defense exposition in North America on food safety, quality assurance and food security.

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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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What is Business Assurance?

12th Jan 2010

Business Assurance was developed and implemented by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. Independent research highlighted the changing needs of organisations and their views on what the certification industry should deliver. That research was the beginning of LRQA’s Business Assurance.

LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.

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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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Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Podcast Series, Episode 10, Interview with Policy Director, Nuclear Energy Institute

15th Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs

Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Podcast Series, Episode 10, Interview with Policy Director, Nuclear Energy Institute Episode 10 in the Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Podcast Series is an interview with Paul Genoa, Policy Director for the Washington D.C. based Nuclear Energy Institute. The interview was conducted at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark during the COP 15 Global Climate Change Conference. Lloyd’s Register Energy’s leading climate change expert, Sean Cuthbert, is the interviewer.

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