Competence, Training, Awareness…. Organizational Knowledge too? When compared to the ISO 9001:2008 standard the requirement in ISO 9001:2015 is more heavily weighted towards Competence. In facilities, where competence is often based on compliance to a WPS or ASNT training, along with standard common in house training such as Control of Nonconforming Outputs, some simple systems…
ISO 9001 Certification, Why Get Certified? lots of reasons… This is a common question we’re asked. This is a question you might be asking yourself right now. And it’s a GREAT question folks. The answer is simple, it depends. I know that’s not a satisfying answer, but I’ll explain as I go on. The “Right”…
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Leadership and worker participation It doesn’t matter what you fill in as the blank in that statement, culture kills people. I’ve known this for years, having spent nearly a decade in Health & Safety, but got to see it first hand in a recent audit. That does NOT for one second discount people’s individual choices…
I’m Kyle Chambers. I’m the founder and owner operator of Texas Quality Assurance. I get asked by friends and family frequently about what I do.. I tell them Quality Management (Auditing, Consulting and Software Development) most commonly dealing with ISO 9001 ( I end it there, 18001, 14001, API, that will just muddy the conversational…
Competence and Training In general, the standard states that “Personnel……shall be competent…”, which is a bit of simple, isn’t it? Perhaps not. You must ensure everyone has been trained according to a pre-defined matrix of sorts, evaluate competence, and then ensure everyone has been trained according to the plan you set forth. Very similar to…