How to be a Better Leader in Quality: Guiding and Influencing Top Management

How to be a Better Leader in Quality: Guiding and Influencing Top Management by Ashleigh Cunningham – Thursday, 2 November 2017 Leadership within the context of ISO Leadership is one of the seven principles on which ISO 9001:2015 is built. ISO 9000:2015 states the terms, principles, definitions etc. used within the ISO 9001 standard. To … Read more

ISO Standards Make Cities Smarter

World Standards Day 2017: ISO Standards Make Cities Smarter

World Standards Day 2017: ISO Standards Make Cities Smarter by Ashleigh Cunningham – Wednesday, 3 October 2017 World Standards Day takes place on the 14th of October each year – 2017’s theme is titled: “Standards make cities smarter.” Cities across the globe face challenges that are unique to each of them and that require a … Read more

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Why is ISO 22000 FSSC important?

Why is ISO 22000 FSSC important? by Ashleigh Cunningham – Friday, 7 July 2017 Over the past months, there has been great turbulence in the Global Poultry Industry, as unanticipated challenges and risks have arisen. These have arrived in the form of controversy surrounding poultry imports and exports, as well as recent outbreaks of Avian … Read more

Transition Planning Guidance: ISO 9001:2015

Transition Planning Guidance: ISO 9001:2015 by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 There is a lot of discussion in the world regarding the change from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015. This blog post seeks to offer some insight into the published facts,  in order to assist those implicated by the changes. It therefore in … Read more

5 Steps to Organisational Knowledge Management

5 Steps to Organisational Knowledge Management by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 What is Organisational Knowledge? One of the new requirements of ISO 9001:2015 includes the need for management of Organisational Knowledge (Clause 7.1.6). The challenge with this need is that most companies find the requirement rather ambiguous. Organisational Knowledge is not defined … Read more

Revision of ISO 17025: What you need to know

Revision of ISO 17025: What you need to know by Tony Cunningham – Tuesday, 20 June 2017 Like so many other ISO standards, ISO 17025 is under revision to accommodate the new high-level structure published in ISO Directive 1 Annex SL and considerations from the revised ISO 9001:2015. Publication is expected late 2016 or early … Read more