Honoring Sanctions, Finland Strips Properties from Russian Ex-President of ISO
Former ISO President Boris Aleshin faces sanctions against himself personally and his state-run Russian military corporations.
The Purge: ISO Ejects Russian Critic of its Support of Russia, Not Actual Russia
ISO and Standards Australia have ejected long-time standards expert Alex Ezrakhovich for his social media posts against Russia.
ISO 27001 Certified Company Found Leaking Children’s Data, Takes No Action
Airtable was found to be leaking PII for minors as young as 10, despite holding ISO 27001 certification and claiming SOC2 compliance.
UKAS Violates UK Sanctions Against Russia, Continues to Accredit in Russia
The UKAS mark appears on two certificates issued in March 2023 to SB-Group in Moscow.
PJLA Pulls Video of “Consultant Referral Program” After Raising Questions
Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation’s head admitted the program gave an “incentive” to participating consultants.
Cyber AB Releases Consulting Tool, “Demolishes” Pretense of Objectivity, ISO 17011 Conformity
The Cyber AB’s “CRT” tool would give unfair advantage to some end users, and not others.
DoD Inspector General to Audit CMMC Program and AB Oversight
The DODIG announced it will begin an audit of the DoD’s accreditation activities for CMMC in mere days.
Nominees for ISO 9001 Rewrite Committee Include No Actual Users
Of nine nominees, six are private consultants and three are from national standards bodies; none are end-user representatives.
NSF, Rina, Other CBs Suspended from Providing SMETA Ethics Audits
A total of four CBs were suspended, and two banned, from providing the retail organization certification audits.
Relying on Abstentions, TC 176 Approves Revision to ISO 9000 Vocabulary Guide
The move follows a campaign by ISO to revise ISO 9001 against the world’s wishes, but to the benefit of private consultants.
CB That Certified Cybercrime Division Gets Reported to Cybercrime Division
SIS has hired the most beta alpha-male ever.
Oxebridge Migrating User Community from Slack to Discord
We are urging O-fans to migrate to the official Discord channel, in case Slack goes dark.
The Strange Connection between US Accreditation Body IAS and Iran
IAS is accrediting certificates issued in Iran, raising questions about … well, lots of stuff.
Ignoring Post-Grenfell Promises, UKAS Already Violates Conflict of Interest Rules
In defending electrical safety body NAPIT, UKAS again relies on conflicts to clear a paid customer.
Oxebridge Founder Opens “Dr. Cuba” Website for Crime Horror Novel Series
The new website is www.drcuba.world .
IAF CertSearch is an Absolute Mess
CertSearch is an example of how things go wrong when oversight bodies yield to the demands of those they are supposed to regulate.
Consultant Guy Thinks Lying About His Own Website is “Lean”
Mark Kaganov insists he not selling template kits when linking to the website that sells template kits.
Indian Official Orders 124 Departments to Get ISO 9001 Certified in Two Weeks
District Collector Dr. V. Vinod Kumar would have some explaining to do, but it’s India, so, … no.
Chattergoon Out as Key TC 176 Player as ISO Tightens Grip
Devindra Chattergoon has been tossed over to a support role in a “busy work” Working Group.
TC 176 Bigshot Mouths Off on LinkedIn, Gets Ethics Complaint for the Effort
Sjoerd Boomsma of the Netherlands wants you to know he’s a very important crayon eater.
The (Scandal-Free) Revised Oxebridge Quality Promise
With all the scandals and misbehavior plaguing our profession. I think it’s time for Oxebridge to show the world how it’s done and update our Quality Promise for a new generation of ISO users and professionals.
Want to See Oxebridge’s Comments on the DIS of ISO 9001:2015?
Now you can save yourself an entire week of typing comments on ISO DIS 9001:2015, and just submit Oxebridge’s comments to TC 176 as your own. Yes, that’s as insane as it sounds. But easy!
Dr. Who Game Perfectly Sums Up Risk Management Consultants’ Entire Business Model
This promo graphic for the new BBC board game RISK: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH accidentally captured the entire spin-doctor tactics of risk managers currently infecting the contemporary dialog on business management.
The Croft Alliance Opens Three New Offices, Still Can’t Afford Spam Filter
ISO TC 176 SC2 Chair Nigel Croft's consulting firm, The Croft Alliance Global (TCA Global) has opened up three new offices, in Mexico, Brazil and India. As I've noted before, Dr. Croft's firm is made up nearly entirely of TC 176 members he poached recruited during the...
ISO Grants Rare Award to Oxebridge VP Chris Paris [HUMOR]
Not content with merely being voted the World's Most Awesome ISO 9001 Consultant in the World, I can now add "ISO Award Winning ISO 9001 Consultant" to my growing list of credentials. And this time I didn't even have to invent the award myself! Over at the...
Exploding the Myths of ISO 9001:2015
The FDIS of ISO 9001:2015 is fast upon us, but already some myths and memes are forming, much to the frustration of anyone who’s actually read the thing. So let’s fire up the debunkerizer, and see if we can cut through this mess.
New Resource for CBs or ABs on Processing Oxebridge Complaints
To help those Certification Bodies or Accreditation Bodies who have received an Oxebridge complaint, we’ve published a handy guide on how to properly respond in accordance with the accreditation rules, as well as a list of things not to do.
Ensure A Fair Registration Audit With These Contractual Obligations For Your ISO 9001 Registrar
This comprehensive document provides you a full array of contractual riders you should flow down to your ISO 9001 registrar, to ensure they remain in compliance with the accreditation rules of ISO 17021. These contractual clauses will protect your organization from numerous rogue CB practices, such as the spreading of your confidential intellectual property, improper filing of audit reports, and poor reporting of nonconformities.
ISO 9001:2015 Won’t Require a Quality Manual — Here’s What to Replace it With
The upcoming ISO 9001:2015 standard will do away with the requirement for a Quality Manual. Here we argue that replacing it with an Interpretations Manual will simultaneously keep your customers happy, while improving the QMS for employees and other stakeholders.
Top Ten Dumb Things ISO Consultants Say
ISO consultants love to parrot each other. One dummy will say something that sounds reasonably smart, and get picked up by everyone else until it becomes an assumed truth. This is how the meme "say what you do, and do what you say" got started. They tend to cause a...
Oxebridge Adds New Guide to Selecting a Registrar
Adding to its growing library of free guidance documents, Oxebridge has published a guide on registrar selection.
AS9100 Configuration Management for the Small Machine Shop
AS9100’s requirements for configuration management (CM) are well understood by the massive aerospace primes, but can present overkill and confusion for small downstream suppliers. Fortunately, for the small machine shop, the configuration management requirements can...
Why Auditing “Active Orders” is Terrible Practice
As recently discussed, self-proclaimed ISO 9001 expert David Seear revealed his idea of a "process audit" is to merely select a handful of active orders, chosen during a pre-audit shop floor tour, and then audit those. Unfortunately this practice isn't something...
Process Audits for ISO 9001 Made Blindingly Simple
So many are confused by process auditing, it's become a virus in the industry. Let's inoculate. A process audit shifts the focus from the product to the process, and examines each process' ability to produce a product that meets the requirements for that process. You...
Six Sense Auditing: How Your Eyeballs Fail You During Audits
Vision is great. It helps us to drive our cars, choose our mates, and accurately spear a woolly mammoth for dinner; often in that order, if your date goes well. But when it comes to conducting audits, our eyeballs let us down. They lead us down the wrong path, and...