by OQRI | Jun 19, 2019 | News
Oxebridge has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FAA to unmask the supplier of potentially defective slat tracks installed on Boeing 737 MAX and Next Generation (NG) aircraft. On June 10th, FAA released an Airworthiness Directive announcing...
by OQRI | Jun 17, 2019 | News
A senior member of the telecommunications standards committee QuEST Forum and ASQ Fellow worked as a senior executive of Huawei and helped the Chinese company improve quality using techniques and methods developed in the US. Jack Pompeo held the position of VP Global...
by OQRI | Jun 15, 2019 | News
The aerospace manufacturer ASCO has shut down all operations “indefinitely” after the company succumbed to a ransomware cyberattack which locked employees out of its systems. ASCO was taken over recently by Spirit Airlines. Boeing and the FAA announced...
by OQRI | Jun 14, 2019 | News
The company responsible for manufacturing a flammable cladding material which led to the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in the UK continues to hold ISO 9001 certification issued by Bureau Veritas and accredited by ANAB. Arconic Inc. of New Kensington PA held ISO...
by OQRI | Jun 5, 2019 | News
Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems was fined $193,000 by the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for exposing employees to carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, according to an official OSHA release. According to the document, OSHA...
by OQRI | Jun 3, 2019 | News
The regional accreditation body conglomerate European Accreditation (EA) has issued a formal resolution rejecting a clarification on ISO 17065 issued by that standard’s authoring committee, the ISO Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO). The move shows that...
by OQRI | May 29, 2019 | News
NQA-USA Quality Director Arlen Chapman was hit with an official complaint alleging multiple violations of accreditation rules after he engaged in an angry phone call with an AS9100 certified client who had hired Oxebridge Quality Resources to assist in resolving open...
by OQRI | May 24, 2019 | News
A paper published by Pennsylvania State University labeled an article written by ASQ State Section Chair William Levinson as echoing “white supremacist” views. The paper, entitled “The White Meme’s Burden: Replication and Adaptation in...
by OQRI | May 24, 2019 | News
A company at the heart of a criminal trial for forging aerospace source inspection records held AS9100 certification issued by NSF-ISR at the time the crimes were committed. According to the FBI, an employee with PMI Industries of Rochester NY intentionally falsified...
by OQRI | May 16, 2019 | News
Dr. Melvyn Langford, formerly of the UK National Health Service, has written an article debunking the “5 x 5” risk matrix approach and, by extension, the concept of Risk Priority Numbers (RPN). The US aerospace industry, in particular, reinforces the use...
by OQRI | May 10, 2019 | News
A lawsuit filed by an unknown testing laboratory against German accreditation Body DAkkS was successful in obtaining a court ruling that formally provides for “permanent accreditation,” doing away with the concept of a 5-year accreditation limit. The...
by OQRI | Apr 10, 2019 | News
Self-accredited ISO 9001 certificate mill Guberman-PMC LLC has once again violated ISO 17021-1 accreditation rules by publishing a video in which its founder, Daryl Guberman, invites consultants to enter into a “partnership” with his alleged certification...
by OQRI | Apr 6, 2019 | News
The standard form AS9102 and associated instructions are up for a five-year review, and the IAQG is soliciting comments from stakeholders. AS9102 is the standard used for First Article Inspection, and is typically the form used for such inspections. To provide...
by OQRI | Apr 4, 2019 | News
A 2014 US Dept. of State Charging Letter issued against Esterline Technologies Corporation reveals the company’s network of subsidiaries engaged in a decade of ITAR violations, for a total of 282 separate charges. In at least two cases, criminal investigations...
by OQRI | Apr 1, 2019 | Humor, News, Satire
April 1, 2019 – For Immediate Release Oxebridge Quality Resources International has announced its intent to shut down entirely after a 19-year battle against defamation and extortion led largely by moderators of the Elsmar Cove forum, self-accredited certificate...
by OQRI | Mar 26, 2019 | News
In 2013, the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,130 people and injuring another 2,500. According to reporting by European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, subsequent investigations found rampant human rights abuses...
by OQRI | Mar 21, 2019 | News
Intercontinental Terminal Company (ITC) has just extinguished a massive chemical fire at its Deer Park TX tank farm, where holding tanks filled with petroleum and other volatile chemicals burned benzene into the atmosphere, triggering a large-scale environmental...
by OQRI | Mar 21, 2019 | News
The utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) held multiple accredited safety certifications even as it was allowing a culture of unsafe data falsification to fester. Investigators have discovered that PG&E “locators” falsified data related...
by OQRI | Mar 7, 2019 | News
BREAKING – this story will be updated as additional information arrives. In its official report to Brazilian mining company Vale, the certification body TUV SUD cited compliance with ISO 31000, the international risk management standard, when certifying the dam...
by OQRI | Mar 5, 2019 | News
Two TUV SUD auditors were arrested in Brazil after being found to have certified the Vale tailings dam which collapsed, killing over 180 people so far. Authorities and investigators found that the two auditors had been pressured to provide Vale a passing safety...
by OQRI | Feb 22, 2019 | News
The American Society for Quality has banned Oxebridge from its MyASQ Discussion board after a single post suggesting that ASQ offer supplemental health insurance and job placement services to members. At first, the thread was deleted without...
by OQRI | Feb 21, 2019 | News
Oxebridge Quality Resources International has filed a Federal lawsuit against multiple quality professionals alleging a host of civil violations including defamation, cyberstalking, wiretapping, trademark infringement and civil conspiracy. The named defendants include...
by OQRI | Feb 21, 2019 | News
Donald Norman LaBelle, the co-operator of the unaccredited certificate mill G-PMC Registrars, falsely claimed to have won an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2010, and appears to have created a fake newspaper clipping to support it. On his YouTube...
by OQRI | Feb 18, 2019 | News
A source has reported to Oxebridge that the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to TC 176, the committee which writes the ISO 9000 series of standards, is sending two private consultants to represent the United States at closed-door meetings at which the update of the...
by OQRI | Feb 8, 2019 | News
Oxebridge has updated its ISO 17025 implementation program to reflect the latest edition of that standard, ISO 17025:2017. The new standard and aligned Oxebridge program add increased control of risks, as well as address new concepts. ISO 17025 is intended to be used...
by OQRI | Jan 25, 2019 | News
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has “scrapped” a survey it circulated for feedback on updates to the IAF’s mandatory audit duration after Oxebridge circulated the survey to actual ISO 9001 user organizations. The IAF and the...
by OQRI | Jan 19, 2019 | News
An analysis of the current roster of members of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO TC 176, the official US delegation that authors the ISO 9000 family of standards, shows a hemorrhaging of participants since the ISO 9001:2015 standard was released. In...
by OQRI | Jan 16, 2019 | News
Dr. Iñaki Heras-Saizarbitoria, a researcher with the Universidad del País Vasco in the Basque Country, has completed a study on the validity of ISO 9001 certificates worldwide, and has determined that the bulk of certificates coming from China are not to be trusted....
by OQRI | Jan 12, 2019 | News
Nicolas Fleury, the current Deputy ISO Secretary-General and former Acting Secretary-General, received an “Honorary Professor” credential from Qingdao University in the People’s Republic of China during a 2018 conference in which ISO lent official...
by OQRI | Jan 11, 2019 | News
ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica once led the Chilean customs agency which was later accused of facilitating tax evasion, contraband importation and drug trafficking due to incompetence and understaffing. Mujica himself was criticized for having landed the...
by OQRI | Jan 9, 2019 | News
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is shuttered as an effect of the Trump Shutdown of the US Federal government. The President and Congress are in their third week of shutdown over a demand by President Trump to build a massive wall between...
by OQRI | Jan 9, 2019 | News
BREAKING: A Florida court has thrown out six of seven counts made by ASQ Section Chair William Levinson in his defamation lawsuit against Oxebridge and its founder Christopher Paris. All six of the denied counts were related to defamation. A seventh count, related to...
by OQRI | Jan 2, 2019 | News
The website of the Chair of the 2019 ISO 9000 World Conference, operated by the American Quality Institute (AQI) is falsely claiming his consulting company bears AS9100 “accreditation,” among other ISO certifications. Robert Freeman, owner of the...
by OQRI | Dec 30, 2018 | News
The Japanese manufacturer who was found having falsified data related to earthquake dampers for highrise construction held ISO 9001 certification issued by Japan Quality Assurance, Oxbridge has confirmed. The Gifu Japan plant of Kayaba System Machinery, a division of...
by OQRI | Dec 20, 2018 | News
[This story is breaking, and will be updated as developments come in.] The California utility company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) held certifications to ISO 9001 and ISO 55001 during the time management and supervisors were ordering “mark and...
by OQRI | Dec 17, 2018 | News
Daryl Guberman, the co-owner of the self-accredited ISO 9001 “certificate mill” G-PMC Registrars LLC, may be in violation of US federal election campaign laws, as he has claimed to be running for US Senate since at least 2016, and yet has not registered...
by OQRI | Dec 13, 2018 | News
In 2013, a blowout preventer (BOP) exploded on an oil rig operated by Hercules Offshore, in an accident that shared some similarities with the BOP explosion that caused the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. In the case of Hercules Offshore, the rig was pumping natural...
by OQRI | Dec 12, 2018 | News
Representatives of both the Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have refused to respond to queries regarding the growing scandals related to Japanese companies falsifiying product testing data, which has resulted in...
by OQRI | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Paul Simpson, the incoming Chair o ISO TC 176 Subcommittee 2 (SC2) has launched a public LinkedIn discussion group, and users of ISO 9001 can communicate directly with the TC leadership. SC2 is responsible for the development of ISO 9001 and ISO 9004. The group is...
by OQRI | Dec 5, 2018 | News
As part of the company’s new “Solution Series” of White Papers, Oxebridge has released a proposal for a “Collaborative Standards Development Model.” The report has already been provided to the ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica and ISO...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
In 2017, Seiler Instruments and Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis MO) was charged by the US Dept. of Justice for violations of the Buy American Act when it used Chinese-made optics in weapons sights then sold to the US military. In addition, the US DOJ found Seiler had...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
The US accreditation body ANAB has announced that ANSI has taken over sole ownership, as former co-owner ASQ has sold its ownership stake. ASQ has co-owned ANAB since 2005, when the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB) was split into the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is at the heart of a scandal whereby two UK forensics labs were found to have manipulated test data, affecting tens of thousands of victims. The scandal has seen the arrest of employees of two...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
In September, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited the Canadian firm Cardiomed Supplies Inc. with multiple regulatory violations, including serious basic deficiencies of the company’s quality management system (QMS). Despite this, Cardiomed continues...
by OQRI | Nov 30, 2018 | News
A French court has ordered the certification body TUV Rheinland to pay $2,082,000 in damages to women who were injured by defective breast implants sold by Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), an organization that TUV had certified under the European “CE Mark”...
by OQRI | Nov 28, 2018 | News
The certification body BSI granted CE Mark product certification for a spinal implant medical device that is now reported to be dissolving inside the bodies of patients, forcing them to have additional spinal surgeries. In addition, the resulting investigation has led...
by OQRI | Nov 9, 2018 | News
In 2016, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the World Bank signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which enables the international financial group to push ISO products on at-risk, developing nations as a part of loan repayment...
by OQRI | Nov 6, 2018 | News
The latest revision of the ISO 19011 standard on Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems stripped out language that required auditors to comply with applicable laws of their auditee clients. Clause 4 of the standard, entitled “Principles of Auditing”...
by OQRI | Nov 2, 2018 | News
The accreditation body Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) is the single point of failure for multiple high-profile scandals. Japan has been rocked by multiple high-profile manufacturing scandals and product recalls, most related to the companies intentionally falsifying...
by OQRI | Oct 31, 2018 | News
The IAF has begun a branding push for its planned universal database of ISO certifications, announcing it will be named “IAF CertSearch.” The announcement was made to the certification body (CB) community a month ago, with more details coming out from...
