Features
From exclusive tours inside top organisations, to interviews with industry experts and opinion pieces written by quality innovators, read the latest features to improve your knowledge and understanding.
Keeping up with supplier demand
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Jennifer Feasby, Quality Manager at Hart Biologicals, UK, speaks to Daniel Moore about how the company has continued to supply In Vitro Devices to customers, while tackling the challenges and threats posed by Covid-19.
Improving communication during audits
Yemi Shodipo, Director of Charis The Training Company in Lancashire, UK, explains how auditors can improve communication with their auditees
Remote auditing during the coronavirus
Sharon Shutler, CQP FCQI, shares her advice and guidance to help auditors carry out remote audits amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Supporting women in quality
Lionel Abbey, CQP FCQI, explains how he has helped support Akorfa Wuttor, Assistant Lecturer at University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Ghana, in her career, and how UPSA’s quality management course is attracting more women into quality roles across Africa.
The quality mentor
Alicia Dimas talks to Angela Fumpson, Director and Founder at White Tiger Quality Management & Business Improvement and Chair of the CQI Avon Branch Committee, about her career, auditing and improvement
A joint effort for the environment
Environmental auditing is not a one man, or woman, job. Nigel Leehane, Chair of the ISO sub-committee on Environmental Auditing, speaks to Alicia Dimas about the sub-committee work and how it liaises with the CQI to guide organisations to achieve their environmental goals
From ineffective auditing to effective auditing
Stephen Asbury talks about behaviours to avoid and tips to improve your auditing skills
Meet Qatar’s first ISO 45001 certified company
Shipping company Nakilat was certified to the new international standard for occupational health and safety management within two weeks of its launch. Here’s how they did it.
From ISO:9001 auditing to ISO:27001 implementation
Adam Gomes talks about his personal experience in the quality profession and how he successfully conducted his company’s ISO:9001 audit and is now implementing ISO:27001.
The dangers of cowboy certification
In an extract from Quality World magazine (June 2017), Rob Fenn, CQP FCQI, chief executive of the British Assessment Bureau, reveals how cowboy certification is threatening the reputation of ISO 9001:2015 and the industry. He speaks to UKAS about the value of accreditation and the pitfalls for organisations tempted to cut corners.
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