Author: Christopher Paris

Oxebridge Files Complaint Against Bureau Veritas Alleging Consultant Conflict of Interest

Oxebridge Files Complaint Against Bureau Veritas Alleging Consultant Conflict of Interest

Posted by | Feb 26, 2015 | , | 0

Oxebridge has filed a 14-page complaint against accredited certification body Bureau Veritas alleging that it failed to properly police marketing claims made by GreenBizCheck, an ISO 14001 consulting firm. Oxebridge alleges that BV was impacted by a financial conflict of interest, due to an exclusive relationship whereby BV provides special certification services for GBC’s “Gold – Silver – Bronze” environmental certification.

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Move by CASCO Will Kill ISO 9001 “Registration”

Move by CASCO Will Kill ISO 9001 “Registration”

Posted by | Feb 26, 2015 | , | 0

The ISO Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO) is wiping out a decades-old requirement that certification bodies (CBs) of ISO 9001 and other management system certifications must maintain registries of their certified clients. Upon publication of the new ISO 17021-1 standard, the term “ISO 9001 registered” will effectively be moot, since there will no longer be any registries of certified clients.

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Why ISO 9001’s “Risk Based Thinking” is Bad for Risk Managers

Why ISO 9001’s “Risk Based Thinking” is Bad for Risk Managers

Posted by | Feb 24, 2015 | | 0

ISO’s Technical Committee 176 has created a concept called “risk based thinking” and is planning to introduce it later this year, when the next edition of ISO 9001 — ISO’s flagship standard — is released. The fallout for risk managers is that now we have the quality profession claiming sudden mastery over risk management, and retroactively claiming they’ve been experts all along. They are like children driving their dad’s new car. Blind children.

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