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
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
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
The first important question to ask is why would you change to the ISO9001:2015 version. Apart from the fact that it is obligatory if you want to stay certified, it has other advantages. Integrated system Quite a…
Nick Appel08/02/2017
Over the past months we have seen the introduction of the new ISO9001:2015 standard. To comply with this new standard we applied a strategy to introduce risk based thinking throughout the organisation with one of our…
Nick Appel09/02/2016
Last week I had a very interesting discussion with a QHSE manager regarding Non conformance report (NCR). While working on improvements on their management system we tried to come up with a clear definition of when…
Nick Appel17/12/2015
Quality is a very important part of doing business. When a company delivers poor quality products or services it won’t last very long. However, maintaining and improving a QHSE management system can feel like an uphill…
Nick Appel06/11/2015
