Work to make yourself redundant
The best piece of advice I ever received was ‘work to make yourself redundant’. Most people have trouble getting their head around this statement.
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Change is good – but whatever happened to stability? How auditing can help.
In today’s fast-paced world we almost continually hear that change is good
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Context of the Organisation
With the addition of Context of the Organisation has the customer been overlooked?
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Want to save some money and get better audit results?
Audits cost money – that is a fact. They are a cost to a business and if you can reduce the cost that is a good thing.
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The audit objective and why it is so important.
The objective of any audit is to determine the level of compliance with the documented criteria, correct? Yes, of course, it is, well maybe not always...
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Which ISO 45001 course is for me?
Now that ISO 45001:2018 has been released, we are receiving a lot of enquiries asking ‘What course do I need to do?’ Which is a great question! The right course for you may depend on several factors.
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Why is online auditor training the smart choice?
Whether you are looking to qualify as an auditor or to update your auditing qualifications, the choice is simple.
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Why is ISO 9001 not called a Customer management system?
The word quality seems to have two meanings, which could be seen as a bit misleading.
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The Safe Work Marathon
Across Australia October 2017 was National Safe Work Month, with the theme being “Sharing safety knowledge and experience benefits everyone”. Workplace Health and Safety are always top of mind here at ATOL HQ, especially as we recently completed the release of our ISO 45001 courses.
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Why your CEO should conduct internal audits?
If you want to get some real power out of your internal audits, ask your CEO if they would be willing to undertake some of them.
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ISO 9001 2015 Transition Deadline
It only seems like yesterday that ISO 9001:2015 was published and now here we are staring down the barrel of the end of the 3-year transition!
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ISO 14001 2015 Transition Deadline
It only seems like yesterday that ISO 14001:2015 was published and now here we are staring down the barrel of the end of the 3-year transition!
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Management System's, What needs to be documented? Part 2
The organization’s management system shall include: Documented information required by the International Standard Documented information determined by the organization as being necessary for the effectiveness of the management system
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Management System's, What needs to be documented? Part 1
This is always a hot topic in the classroom training environment. Some students really struggle with understanding why the Standards do not ‘require’ some clauses or processes to be documented. To help all of us to understand the requirements for documented information we need to understand a few core terms and definitions first.
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Audit types and their different names?
1st, 2nd & 3rd party and internal, supplier & external, as well as compliance, renewal, surveillance, certification, initial & re-certification are all names for different types of audits. But are they really all that different, or just different names for the same thing?
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