{"id":1570,"date":"2013-04-23T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-04-23T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:29:18","slug":"rabqsa-del-straight-not-certified-lead-auditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/rabqsa-del-straight-not-certified-lead-auditor\/","title":{"rendered":"RABQSA: Del Straight NOT Certified Lead Auditor (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just received this from Teresa Tidball at RABQSA:<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have checked our system and do not have any record of a Del Straight being or having been certified with us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For years, Del Straight<\/a> has advertised himself as a RABQSA Certified Lead Auditor, including using the RABQSA logo on unaccredited ISO certificates<\/a> given to his customers. For months, he has refused to provide a copy of his certificate, or merely the RABQSA certificate number.<\/p>\n

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Now that he has been outed as intentionally misleading the public, likely in violation of Michigan consumer law, how long will it take before Mr. Straight corrects his website with a proper update?<\/p>\n

It’s likely not to happen. When confronted with the usage of the RABQSA logo on a cert that appears on a former client’s website, Del appears to have merely accused — and then “punished” — his client of fraud. From LinkedIn:<\/p>\n

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The client in question – Parts Finishing Group – has been asked for a copy of the actual certificate handed to them by Del to see if it matches the scan included on their website. I’ll report back when we hear from them, but I suspect we already know the answer.<\/p>\n

You have to love it when an unaccredited registrar just throws their client under the bus, and accuses them of fraud.<\/p>\n

\u00a0UPDATE 4\/23\/2013: In response to our reporting, Del has updated his website to read, “Mr. Straight is a\u00a0Trained Lead Auditor with a certificate from a training firm\u00a0with RAB\/QSA <\/em>[sic] credentials.” I am still maintaining that it is deceptive, although less so, because the capitalization of the term implies that there is a “Trained Lead Auditor” certification offered by RABQSA, which there is not. He also indicated on LinkedIn that any certificates bearing other language alleging he is a RABQSA Lead Auditor are “expired.” RABQSA is still investigating his improper usage of their logo.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just received this from Teresa Tidball at RABQSA: \u00a0I have checked our system and do not have any record of a Del Straight being or having been certified with us. For years, Del Straight has advertised himself as a RABQSA Certified Lead Auditor, including using the RABQSA logo on unaccredited ISO certificates given to his […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[108,23,117],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-certificate-mills","tag-certification-bodies","tag-indefensibles","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}