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Explore Global Challenges and Discover the Potential of Standards as Accelerators of Positive Change At the 2022 ISO Annual Meeting held last week, we learned the global market for standards continued growing at approximately 5% on average over recent years (even during the global pandemic). Standards exist in a dynamic environment where multiple driving forces…
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What to know about your Certification Body and Accreditation When selecting a Certification Body (CB) to oversee your company’s Management System certification, it’s really important to ask if they are accredited by an International Accreditation Forum (IAF) recognized Accreditation Body (AB). You may be surprised to learn that there are organizations that are not. SimpleQuE’s…
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Where Documented Information is Required in ISO 9001 Where the ISO 9001 standard historically used terms like “quality manual”, “document”, “documented procedures”, and “records”, ISO 9001:2015 now uses the term “documented information” (clause 7.5) to collectively refer to it all. Clause 7.5 provides guidance while allowing flexibility in the way organizations can choose to document…
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Achieved ISO 9001 Certification, Now What? Now that you have achieved ISO 9001 certification, you must maintain your Quality Management System (QMS) and make improvements. It is more important now, that the QMS doesn’t fall apart. Internal ownership by the process owners must be maintained, and buy-in needs to continue past the initial certification audit.…
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ISO 9001 certification is changing the standards for Higher Education. More than 1 million organizations and companies worldwide understand the benefits of being ISO 9001 certified, and that includes a growing number of educational institutions. The 2020 ISO.org Survey shows that in the Education Sector 12,309 ISO 9001 certificates have been issued worldwide. Standardization…
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The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has created CertSearch – a new global database resource to verify accredited management system certifications. IAF is the worldwide association of accreditation bodies whose members represent 83 government and semi-government accreditation bodies and industry associations from around the world. IAF collects data from 69 Accreditation Bodies and 1,155 Certification Bodies…
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SimpleQuE makes QMS training simple and convenient with our customized, on-site training, because we bring the instructor to you. Topics include training for: Internal Auditors with the Process Audit Approach, Root Cause Analysis and Problem-Solving, Implementation and Full Standard Reviews, Process Ownership, Core Tools and more! The training is conducted by our experienced technical…
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To understand the connection between the organization, consulting company and certification body when establishing a quality management system, read our blog – The Quality Connection.
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How is an ISO consulting company different from a Certification Body? As an ISO consulting company, simpleQuE specializes in quality and environmental management systems and we are frequently asked what services we provide and how we are different from a Certification Body (CB). This article explains the objectives, roles and responsibilities of the organization,…
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ISO 9001 and Risk Management Result in a Risk-Intelligent Business Digitalization, globalization, competition and the speed of technological advances has changed the nature of business. ISO 9001:2015 places a heavy emphasis on using “risk-based thinking” for managing quality-related processes. Risk has always been implicit in ISO 9001. But this revision asks organizations to make a…
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