Parsing G31000: Verifying the Many Claims of Alex Dali (UPDATED)
With the recent discovery that Alex Dali, President of the G31000 Global Institute of Risk Management Standards, may be intentionally using a fake LinkedIn profile of an eyebrow model to promote his group, I started to review his claims and activities in greater...
LRQA is Just Following the Same Old CB Script
With the latest revelation that LRQA has blacklisted Oxebridge.com domain emails, and cut off all communication regarding complaints issued to it from us, it should be noted that as incredibly backwards as that move may appear, it's nothing new. In fact, LRQA is...
Risk Expert May Not Have Considered Risk of Creating Fake Internet Profile to Promote G31000 Group
Alex Dali, the President of G31000 Global Institute for Risk Management, an international organization dedicated to cashing in on promoting the ISO 31000 risk management standard through training seminars and personal certifications, has apparently failed to assess...
Apparently, Risk Management is Just Like Porn
(UPDATE: See below.) There's a fascinating debate going on over at LinkedIn, in the ISO 31000 forum. Here's the link, although I suggest you scroll through to the end and work backwards, because the back-and-forth between risk advocate Peter Blokland, myself and ISO...
Winter is Coming: ANAB Accredits Smithers for SN9001
ANAB has finally granted accreditation to Smithers Quality Assessments to the snow and ice management standard, SN9001, closing a weird, incestuous feedback loop that would boggle the mind, if it weren't all so ridiculously dull. Let's try to spice it up. The...
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...
LRQA Misplaces its Office in Hungary
Whatever is going on over at Lloyds Register (LRQA) sure is trippy. I'm not sure what type of drug one needs to lose an entire country, but whatever it is, they have it in great supply over at the LRQA home office. As if the strange-enough-already case of how LRQA...
IAQG’s “Americas Lead” Doesn’t Understand Aerospace Anti-Counterfeit Measures
This started out as an innocent debate between me and another AS9100 professional. My colleague asserted that red dykem was sufficient to "permanently mark" scrap per AS9100 clause 8.3, but his registrar cited him with a nonconformity, claiming dykem is not permanent....
Certificate Mill Manifesto Accuses ANAB, Orion and Others of Criminal Conspiracy, Theft
Stephen Keneally of American Global Standards, an unaccredited self-accredited certificate mill operating out of Oxnard CA, has sent me the original text of Bhagavad Gita, or at least something that looks like it. It's a nearly 4,000 word screed on life, corruption,...
The ISO 9001 Apocrypha
Charles Scalies, of Source4Quality, has collated a list of "ISO Apocrypha" from a LinkedIn discussion. These represent the many, many memes, bad interpretations and oft-parroted expectations of ISO 9001 auditors that have no bearing whatsoever in ISO 9001, or are just...