= Rapid Program EligibleOxebridge Guidance Documents
These free documents collect some of Oxebridge’s vast, user-focused experience and present them in easy-to understand language for all quality system users and implementers.
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Ensure a Fair Registration Audit
With These Contractual Obligations for your Registrar
In a survey of over sixty US ISO 9001 registered companies, six of the top ten most common concerns with registrars were related to various failures to abide by the requirements of either ISO 19011 or ISO Guide 17021 — the two standards that registrars themselves must adhere to. Specific violations reported by the companies included failures of the Certification Bodies (CBs) to abide by audit schedules, failures to record evidence on nonconformance reports, making auditees uncomfortable and prescriptive auditing styles by auditors.
This free Oxebridge guidance document presents actual contractual language you can add to your purchasing agreement with your registrar to ensure you get a fair, objective audit that complies with ISO 19011 and ISO 17021.
Also, the guide presents some of the rules that registrars must abide by, in plain, easy-to-understand English.
Remember: you’re the boss, not your registrar.
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The ISO 9001 Alphabet Soup:
Understanding the International Forces that Control Your Certification’s Destiny
There are more organizations that hold the fate of your ISO 9001 program in their hands than just your registrar.
This 22-page original document goes through the major players in the world of ISO 9001 registrations, with an equal emphasis on the US domestic organizations.
From the big guys like ISO and ANSI to the newer names like RABQSA and ANAB, and on through to TC 176 and the US TAG, this Oxebridge guidance document will educate you on who holds authority over auditing, certification, accreditation and standards development.
This is a must-have guide for any ISO 9000 Management Representative or senior executive who wants to better understand how the value and integrity of their company’s ISO 9001 certificate can be affected by organizations far outside of their reach. It also provides advice on how to become involved in these organizations, and includes an application for readers to join the US TAG to TC 176, the most influential committee in the development of ISO 9001.
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How to LEGALLY Publicize Your ISO 9001 Certification
The audits are complete, the champagne bottles are empty and the company party is long over. You’ve just gotten your company ISO 9001 certified, and are ready to tell the world.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. There are some pretty strict rules that govern how to publicize your new ISO 9001 certification (or “registration”), and a misstep can cause more than a few headaches. To make matters worse, there’s no single guide on how to proceed properly.
Until now, of course. This Oxebridge guide aims to explain, in simple English, how to publicize your ISO 9001 certification in ways that meet all the various legal requirements of ISO, your registrar, your registrar’s accreditation body, and even your country’s domestic trade regulations.
The fact is, without proper guidance, you could accidentally expose your company to nuisance litigation on the basis of copyright or trademark infringement, violation of trade rules, or deceptive marketing practices.
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EYESORE 9001:A Smartass’s Guide to ISO 9001:2008
SECOND EDITION!! New for 2010!
Face it. Working all day on your ISO 9001 program is tough, and sometimes you need a change of pace. Why not spend it reading a book on ISO 9001… one that will make you break out in belly laughs and snort your drink over your keyboard? Besides, the boss will think you’re doing work when he sees you reading something with the number “9000″ on the cover!
This original work is only available through Oxebridge.com. Eyesore 9001 Second Edition takes you through the ISO 9001:2008 standard clause-by-clause, translating each dry, pasty bite into a delicious morsel of sarcasm, wit and hilarity. Interspersed with the satire and biting commentary are bits of sage implementation advice, the latter of which must have gotten in there by accident.
If you don’t have a sense of humor — or if you’re one of the people who wrote the original ISO 9001:2000 — you should probably pass on nabbing this gem. The rest of you should stop what you are doing, close the office door, download the document and prepare for some of the funniest commentary on ISO 9001 since Dilbert discovered the “Big Honkin’ Binder.”
The first edition of Eyesore 9000 had over 150,000 downloads, rivaling the number of actual copies of ISO 9001 purchased officially in the US!
For a copy of the first edition, click here.
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