Quality Professionals: Embrace Blockchain or Perish
Quality professionals must understand blockchain, as it will impact on their work; they must also ensure that the technology is not corrupted by the usual suspects, such as ISO.
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ISO’s Orwellian Definition of “Consensus” Should Scare the Pants Off of You
The inside story of how ISO mutated the definition of the word “consensus” so that it actually means the opposite of the common meaning, in order to ensure it can publish standards without the informed consent of Member Nations
The Only Acceptable Way to Write an Audit “Opportunity for Improvement”
Most ISO 9001 and AS9100 auditors hide their consulting under “opportunities for improvement,” and thus violate the accreditation rules. This article describes how to write an OFI without crossing the line into consulting.
Quality Professionals: Embrace Blockchain or Perish
Quality professionals must learn and understand blockchain, as it will impact on their work and lives in short order; they must also ensure that the technology is not corrupted by the usual suspects, such as ISO.
What A Better Third-Party ISO 9001 Audit Might Look Like… and Cost
There is much discussion over whether the current third party conformity assessment structure is effective for ISO 9001 end users and their customers. So let’s spitball a little… what might a more robust audit program look like, and what would it cost end users?
Why ISO Is In Direct Violation of World Trade Organization Regulations
The World Trade Organization provides six core principles that must be followed by standards developers such as ISO, lest they risk international trade sanctions; ISO has violated all six.
Forget FIFA, Investigate the IAF
With this week’s ruling by the IAF — through its cohort the EA — clearing UKAS despite overwhelming evidence of failure to enforce accreditation rules, it’s become evident to the world that the ISO 9001 certification scheme is meaningless.
IAF Clears UKAS in Response to Allegations of Gross Misconduct, Accreditation Violations
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has cleared the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) of all the allegations made against it by Oxebridge in a high-profile complaint filed in January. The Oxebridge complaint specifically alleged UKAS was in breach of its obligations under ISO 17011, as well as UK law, by failing to enforce accreditation rules on two of UKAS’ certification bodies, LRQA and BSI.
IAF Clears UKAS in Response to Allegations of Gross Misconduct, Accreditation Violations
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has cleared the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) of all the allegations made against it by Oxebridge in a high-profile complaint filed in January. The Oxebridge complaint specifically alleged UKAS was in breach of its obligations under ISO 17011, as well as UK law, by failing to enforce accreditation rules on two of UKAS’ certification bodies, LRQA and BSI.
File Shows Portugal and IQNet Duplicated Their Comments on DIS 9001
The official and final comments file on ISO DIS 9001:2015 shows that the comments entered by IQNet and the Instituto Português da Qualidade (IPQ) of Portugal were identical, resulting in the comments having double the influence of any other member.
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AAQG May Have Lied in its Rejection of Oxebridge VP Membership [UPDATED]
AAQG claims anyone working on the committee responsible for AS9100 must be doing so as an “individual” and not a representative of any employer. So why are the current representatives acting under the names of companies like Boeing, Lockheed and Rockwell?
Oxebridge Audio Series: Why Certification Body Auditors Are Terrible
From a talk given at a closed event in February 2015, this discussion looks at why ISO 9001 certification body auditors routinely perform poorly, and how the current lack of training, as well as psychological factors which arise during the audit experience, ensure auditors will remain poor performers. Includes steps which must be taken to reverse this trend.
