{"id":1832,"date":"2011-07-02T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-07-02T21:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T01:38:37","slug":"1832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/1832\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees of Prescription (exercise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Degrees of separation from an overall objective through to typical ISO 9001 requirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">EXAMPLE 1:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\"> There are three degrees of prescription required to reach a requirement for &#8220;Human Factors&#8221; as proposed by ISO 9001:2015 Committee Draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1834 aligncenter\" title=\"degrees02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees02.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees02-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees02-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">EXAMPLE 2:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\"> In order to reach the ISO 9001 requirement for ensuring accurate information through review and approval of documents, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>five<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">degrees of prescription are required:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1833 aligncenter\" title=\"degrees01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees01.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees01-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/degrees01-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>EXAMPLE 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ISO 9001:2008 clause 8.2.2 requirement:<em> &#8220;Auditors shall not audit their own work.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If we carry the logical progression of prescription, clearly the &#8220;best&#8221; solution is to prohibit use of employees as internal auditors, and only hire external contract auditors. Most would say this is an unreasonable level of prescription; but why? It satisfies a higher level &#8220;how query.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What makes one &#8220;how query&#8221; more prescriptive than the next?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/degrees03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1839\" title=\"degrees03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/degrees03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/degrees03.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/degrees03-150x133.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Degrees of separation from an overall objective through to typical ISO 9001 requirement. EXAMPLE 1: There are three degrees of prescription required to reach a requirement for &#8220;Human Factors&#8221; as proposed by ISO 9001:2015 Committee Draft. EXAMPLE 2: In order to reach the ISO 9001 requirement for ensuring accurate information through review and approval [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","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\/1832","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=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}