I would fool myself if I had to admit that in a more than forty years career in laboratory, sales & technical support, quality inspection, quality, environment, safety audits in fields varying from any kind of chemicals to automotive components, I have not learned at least something on risk-based audit and risk management. Continue reading
James Lamprecht’s preliminary ISO 9001:2015 comments published on # 20 CERM Risk Insights Magazine catalyzes thinking, last but not least on requirement 9.2, internal audit.
Certainly this ISO 9001 supporting process is going to be more challenging; but it will become more subjectively-controlled, too, therefore open to endless – and useless – comparisons based on the very human principle “I’m better than you”. Continue reading
Please do not be afraid, I am not going to divulge any military secrets.
Stealth – or stealthy – in layperson terms means very low detectability, or quasi undetectability. Continue reading
I am just looking at a local supermarket paper receipt: on its backside, together with the paper manufacturer’s logo, there is also a three-letters logo, meaning that – somehow – the forests from which the wood to make that paper is identified.
Please raise your hand if you know what forest stewardship stands for, and what forests, and trees, produce the oxygen we need to breathe. Continue reading
Logistics is commonly meant as transportation, sometimes warehousing.
When we know that a transportation and warehousing company packages medicine or bulk food, we are often appalled.