Category "Risk-based thinking"

There are four major types of quality costs: 1. Prevention This category includes costs like statistical process control, supervision of prevention steps, quality improvement projects, technical support to suppliers, audits, analysis and reporting and other activities related to proactive activities to prevent problems. ...

Root Cause Analysis is one of the best investments an organization can make in itself. Preventing a problem from recurring is like taking a wheelbarrow of money to the bank! As for the 'WIIFM?' let's start with this 'cost of ...

The path to comfort with your risk management plan can be a complicated on one hand and scary on the other. This may help get you started down this path with a plan to work with.  Since the 1960s we've ...

When the final version of ISO 9001 arrived, we saw a new phrase, 'risks and opportunities' in clause 6.1. We have seen thousands of posts on 'risk', I've done webinars and videos on the topic and it is always a ...

You may have heard these terms used interchangeably - I know I have. I thought I'd take a look into ISO 31000 to see if any light could be shed on this monumental question! It turns out that the answer ...

ISO Standards, for the most part have moved to 'Risk-based thinking' as one of their themes. It makes complete sense to include this as part of the fabric of our organizations in order to reduce the chaos of unexpected events, ...

Internal Auditing has been around since before dirt. Some organizations really do a great job and find improvements - this earns a return the investment. Others do it to make the Registrar happy and could do without the grief. This ...

From James Robb, MD FCAP, a pathologist and molecular virologist. Date: February 26, 2020 at 2:35:50 PM EST Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was ...

Yes, and it'll help us get better at what we do! Well, even though variety is the spice of life,  'change' is not always welcomed with open arms. I think that's why TC 176 included clause 6.3 setting out requirements ...

Tackling Clause 6.1 in ISO 9001 can be structured by using Ishikawa's fishbone diagram. You can 'reverse engineer' it to create a framework for a simple risk approach. Ishikawa discovered that most non-conformances typically have their 'root cause' in one or ...