How to Include Risk Management into Your CAPA? Even though the preventive action is no longer part of the terminology of the ISO 9001:2015 standard, A lot of people still use the phrase CAPA (corrective and…
Nick Appel16/11/2017
The real cost of safety, or perhaps better phrased the real cost of a lack of safety is something that is not always clear and can be hard to calculate. There are so many factors involved…
Nick Appel06/11/2017
As with every aspect of training employees, importance of training employees on the management system and common ways of working is critical to maintain consistency. A management system will never be effective or functional if nobody…
Nick Appel19/10/2017
Do you know ten features that can be used to assess the culture within your organization? Risk management has become an important part of the new ISO 9001-2015 standard. Therefore, I would like to pay attention…
Nick Appel05/10/2017
How to Identify Environmental Aspects Creating an environmental overview is a key part of your environmental management system. Basically the environmental aspects are the activities of your organization that have an impact on the environment. In…
Nick Appel27/09/2017
How to Spot Problems in Your Safety Culture How important is customer safety within the organization if there is a denying security culture? The employees involved will always be guilty if an incident has occurred. Security…
Nick Appel21/09/2017
A quality management system for good and socially responsible business. With the increasing pressure on efficiency and costs, we see the attention of quality management evaporate. As if it were a luxury, those organizations could hardly…
Nick Appel14/09/2017
An organization cannot exist without taking any risks. The question is, how to manage those risks to improve predictability and reduce the level of risk? Can you handle risk management. Don’t make risk management an expensive…
Nick Appel05/09/2017
After the elaborate piece on the Cause and Effect diagram we will take a deeper look in the 5 Whys as a root cause methodology. The concept behind 5 why’s is that you keep on asking…
Nick Appel28/08/2017
Total Cost of Quality is a very important topic but not well known by a lot of C-level managers. When asked about the total Cost of Quality, a lot of C-level managers simply don’t know or…
Nick Appel31/07/2017
We made an infographic from the ISO certification worldwide. On this infographic, you can see how many ISO certificates are worldwide. You see a decrease in ISO 9001 and all other ISO certificates increased. We…
Nick Appel25/07/2017
A proper root cause analysis can be the difference between making money and losing money. The analysis is designed to get into the detailed fundamental causes of the issue, without any bias. The cause and effect…
Nick Appel18/07/2017
Risk analysis has become a vital exercise for a lot of international standards. A large majority of certified companies are required to have a risk assessment methodology and should be aware of the risks within their company…
Nick Appel12/07/2017
The world is becoming more and more advanced with each passing day. When it comes to the manufacturing industry, we are always looking for ways to make things better and safer. We want what we buy…
Nick Appel05/07/2017
Objectives are pretty vital to the Management System. With objectives you can measure how the company is doing against a benchmark set by the company itself. Of course the company can do much better or worse.…
Nick Appel20/06/2017
With the new ISO9001:2015 the stakeholder analysis has got a much more prominent position in the Quality management system. Of course, every company knows their most important stakeholders. However, not every stakeholder is always well understood…
Nick Appel11/06/2017
Why would any company comply with a standard apart from being forced by customers? One important reason is that quality is at the core of every organization. When an organization doesn’t deliver a high quality service…
Nick Appel31/05/2017
Every company uses MS Office. It could be start to use this for the quality management. When we speak with the companies who used this before using a quality management platform, they mentioned a couple of…
Nick Appel18/05/2017
Customer satisfaction is one thing every company strives for. However, figuring out whether a customer is really satisfied isn’t always that easy. There are a lot of different variables that can influence the customer satisfaction research…
Nick Appel09/05/2017
Yes I know, ideally your company should be ready for an external audit every day of the year. However, most of the time, you will need at least a couple of weeks to gather all the…
Nick Appel24/04/2017
