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Layered process audits show the benefits of focusing on facts as well as faults
Layered process audits have long been established in the automotive industry, but they can also play a key role in improving quality standards across a range of other sectors, says Ravindiran Gurusamy, an IRCA Certificated Associate Auditor.

Raising and auditing ESG standards – from Lima to London
Find out how applying internationally recognised standards, such as B Corp, is supporting the development of a South American health food business.

Electric vehicle accreditation scheme aims to boost drive towards net zero
As sales of electric vehicles continue to grow, a UK Government-backed industry accreditation scheme claims to be boosting consumer confidence. With three different organisations involved in the certification process, we look at how the scheme is audited.

Toyota's journey to sustainable mobility
Today, many associate the household name, Toyota, with sustainability, partly due to the omnipresence of their hybrid vehicle, the Prius. For World Quality Week 2021, the CQI's CEO Vince Desmond, looks at the evolution of Toyota’s business model as an example of how this year’s theme – Sustainability: improving our products, people and planet – and the CQI’s Quality 4.0 principles link quality management with creating value for customers and society.

Quality in a fourth industrial revolution world
Accredited conformity assessment is an effective way to maintain standards among the emerging technologies that make up the so-called fourth industrial revolution, argues Jeff Ruddle, Strategic Director at UKAS.

The vital role of UKAS accreditation in Covid-19 testing
UK Covid-19 testing laboratories should all be accredited, whether in the public or private sector, to maintain standards and create consumer confidence. However, some private laboratories are slipping through the net.

CQI’s International Quality Awards return in 2022
After a hiatus in 2021, the CQI’s flagship awards, which celebrate excellence in quality management, will be back next year with some notable changes.

CQI Sustainability SIG (SusSIG)
The SusSIG was officially launched by the CQI in November 2021 as part of World Quality Week, the theme being Sustainability: improving our products, people and planet.

The International Quality Awards 2022 categories
Read more below about the criteria for each award’s category, meet the 2020 winners and finalists and be inspired by best practice case studies produced based on finalists’ entries.

Five years of celebrating World Quality
As we approach World Quality Week 2021, Nataliya Nasonova CQP MCQI, Project Quality Manager at Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, looks back at how she and her team at the Battersea Phase 3A project have celebrated World Quality Day over the years, how the World Quality themes have influenced their work, and share their plans for World Quality Week 2021.