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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.
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.
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.
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.
About the International Quality Awards 2022
The CQI’s flagship event returned and saw a day of learning, sharing and celebration
How quality can help deliver the UK’s sustainability objectives
For leaders, translating strategic intent into results can be challenging. Take, for example, the UK government’s net zero target: despite political intent, there seems to be little in place to tangibly deliver the crucial objectives. That is why it is important for leaders to recognise the key role management tools, such as systems thinking, can play in delivering results.
ISO 45001:2018 auditor migration (OHSMS) update
ISO 45001:2018 is now the new standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems. This auditor migration training will help you progress from OHSAS 18001:2007 to this ISO standard.
The 30 September 2021 migration deadline has now passed.