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Creating a Culture of Compliance Across Your Supply Chain

Regulations such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act, and the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (specificall...

#WaterIs... standards!

What is water for you? Is it health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food or equality? Water is all these and more. It is sustainability, well-being and...

15 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE UPCOMING ISO 9001 REVISION

The release in May of the ISO 9001 draft international standard (ISO/DIS 9001:2015) finally opened the door to comment from around the world on what will be a s...

A Closer Look At The Skills Gap

Skills gap: When there are manufacturing jobs on the table but not enough workers with the training, education or capabilities to get them.

A Galactic Lesson in Quality

Every spot in the photo is a galaxy, not a star. Each of them contains perhaps 100 billion stars, and along with them, probably hundreds of billions of planets....

A matter of trust - Conformity assessment in a more complex world

The Viking warrior did not agonize much over choice. Assuming he intended to procure his sword in a civilized manner, he would go to Thor, his trusted village b...

A measure of confidence - How standards build trust in weights and measures

Metrology, standards, and accreditation are three fundamental elements that can open the door to the global market, and to the benefits that come to those count...

A new way of looking at the cause and effect diagram

When using a cause and effect diagram to find root causes, beware of clutter. Using a list instead of a diagram makes the cause and effect tool easier to use an...

A resilient world within our reach

Several thousand participants are meeting in Sendai, Japan, this week to discuss how to make the world a more resilient place – a place better equipped to preve...

A standard for improving communities reaches final stage

The future of sustainable communities just got closer as ISO/DIS 37101 moves to the final stage of development. In our rapidly changing world, ensuring cities a...

A standard to facilitate the daily life of the financial services industry

ISO has published a revised version of the ISO 20022:2013 series on financial services, which provides a methodology intended to create consistent financial mes...

A Step Forward

ISO 9001 revision focuses on reducing risk and applying the process approach. Things we’ve come to expect in our international standards are missing in the vers...

According to Plan

Don’t overlook the importance of planning before auditing. Audits are conducted for many reasons. Sometimes, they’re conducted at the request of customers to en...

Adapting to Troubled Times

If, as Sophocles said, "There is no success without hardship," then the current economic environment is a perfect opportunity for those in the quality field to ...

Additional support to financial services thanks to ISO/IEC

A new ISO/IEC technical report aims to provide additional support to the financial industry to set up an appropriate information security management system for ...

Adventure tourism - More excitement, less risk

Do you feel the call of adventure? Do daring rapids tempt you? Do you enjoy trekking through thick jungle or climbing the highest peaks? Do you dream of biking ...

African water benefits from standards

Water Senegal (Sénégalaise Des Eaux – SDE) – now a reference in Africa – provides drinking water to a population of five million, giving Senegalese better acces...

Ahead in the Count

In the very near future—perhaps as soon as this year or next—Matt Kemp, the prodigious young San Diego Padres center fielder, will match up against legendary pi...

Apples to Oranges?
Clearing up the differences between ISO 22000 and ISO 9001 standards: …
Are consumers safe in the digital age?
E-commerce is expanding. Data gathered by the OECD (Organisation for E…

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