17 answers to get before hiring your consultant
CAVEAT :- “w.e.f. 1.1.2007 reimbursement for consultation fee (for the application received under ISO 9000/14001 reimbursement Scheme) will be made only if the consultants are from the approved list of DC (SSI)”.
Reimbursement of charges to SSI units for acquiring ISO 9000/14000 certification-Criteria for approving ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Certification Bodies for reimbursement of certification expenses to SSI units on 14-06-06 .
Reimbursement of charges to SSI units for acquiring ISO- 9000 /ISO-14001/HACCP certification
Guidelines and Application Format
Application Format for Claiming Reimbursement of Certification Charges of acquiring ISO-9000 / ISO 14001/HACCP Certifications
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Are you sure you're using the right consultant?
BS ISO 10019:2005 Guidelines for the selection of quality management system (QMS) consultants and use of their services is a new British Standard that provides guidance on selecting a quality management system consultant. Available from the Britsh Standards Institute, it will help organizations in choosing a consultant who is able to meet their specific needs, expectations and objectives. The effectiveness of the consultant will have an impact on the QMS which, in turn, will affect the performance of the organization. The standard covers topics such as the selection process, ethical considerations, and the consultant's contract. It will be particularly helpful to Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) that are, or maybe considering, implementing a QMS. Consulting organizations will also find this standard of interest.ISBN 0580 453510 is available for £64, or £32 for BSI Subscribing Members.Tel: 0208 996 9001Fax: 0208 996 7001E-mail: cservices@bsi-global.comWeb: bsi-global.com
How to Hire an ISO 9000 Consultant
Many ISO 9000 or quality consultants have a variety of licenses and ... An ISO 9000 consultant should help you organize your project and avoid or resolve ...
TIE UPS BTW CONSULTANTS AND CERTIFICATION BODIES
GUIDELINES FOR HIRING CONSULTANTS
Reimbursement of ISO 9001/14001 Certification / Consultancy Expenses
Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Government of India is supporting and working through various schemes to build competitiveness in small scale industries. One of the schemes is on promotion of the implementation of ISO 9001/ISO 14001 certification in small scale industries. Finance could be a major deterrent for the small scale industries to invest in implementation of the quality management and/or environmental management system standards. To support this endeavor, the ministry reimburses the consultancy and the certification expenses up to a maximum of Rs 75,000/- for the small scale industries.
To regulate the quality of certification and to promote national accreditation structure, Ministry of Small Scale Industries had earlier taken the decision to only accept NABCB accredited certificates for reimbursement.
In its recent meeting, the Ministry has also decided that with effect from January 1, 2007, the consultancy expenses arising from the consultancy work done by the following categories of consultants will be considered for reimbursement:
- Consultants registered with NRBPT
- TQM Division of Textiles Committee
- National Productivity Council (NPC)
- Consultancy Development Centre (CDC)
- Small Industries Institute
- CII/FICCI/ASSOCHAM
The units will have to forward their application with a copy of the receipts from consultants for the fees received by then from the industry duly attested by any of the following;
Director of Industries
Director, Small Industries Service institute
General Manager, Distt. Industries Centre
Chartered Accountant
For further details of the scheme, kindly contact:
Office of the Development CommissionerSmall Scale Industries
Nirman Bhawan, 7 th Floor Maulana Azad Road
New Delhi – 110 011
Tel: 2302 2220, 2301 2221, 2302 2211Fax: 2301 8315
CDC ON LINE REGISTRATION FORMNRBT REGISTRATION OF CONSULTANTS
SISI MUMBAI
How to complain ?
Are you satisfied with the quality of certification / quality of products / services offered by ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 certified organizations?
if not go here http://www.qcin.org/html/nqc/page4a.htm
ISO 9001:2000 – What does it mean in the supply chain? and how to complain ?
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/explore/9001supchain.html
A Brief history of ISO 9000 - where did we go wrong
http://www.lean-service.com/3-1-article.asp
So you are an ISO 9001 certified company, no big deal
Certification bodies are under quoting each other and the quality of audits have deteriorated. Auditors with insufficient domain knowledge are auditing and certifying. Surveillance audits are stage managed as advance info is given for the date of audit. So the management system is shown to be functional on that day.
Certification bodies are teaming up with consultants to give you a package deal
Ever noticed how many organizations display ISO 9000 certificates?
I found one recently in a hospital I've been to innumerable times. Not that I noticed anything fundamentally different about the place now that the sign is up, unless you count the existence of the sign itself. It's something of a bandwagon, ISO 9000.
And I'm hardly one to let bandwagons pass me by. So I once decided to find out something about it. It's an elusive creature, I discovered. When Baroness Orczy asked: "Is he in Heaven? Is he in Hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!", she might well have been talking about ISO 9000, except that it doesn't rhyme too well.
Me, I have a passing interest in software. So I signed up for something that was advertised as -- and I quote here -- "an important seminar on ISO 9000 for computer software". It was to be conducted by -- I'm still quoting -- "an expert in this field" from a major European country that I will not identify except to tell you that its name begins with "Ger" and ends with "any".
- excerpted from http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2006/05/carefully-capitalized.html
Hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide, their customers, consumers and regulatory authorities stand to benefit from a new ISO/IEC standard designed to increase confidence in management system certification.
ISO/IEC 17021:2006, Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems, places rigorous requirements for competence and impartiality on the bodies that offer audit and certification to standards like ISO 9001:2000 (quality management) and ISO 14001:2004 (environmental management).
CONSULTANCY and CERTIFICATION, ethics
http://good-consultancy-practices.blogspot.com/
ISO publishes best practice guidelines for implementing supply chain security
One of the main challenges facing the international trading system is the security hazard to global supply chains. ISO is contributing to a solution in the form of two essential reference documents in the ISO 28000 family of standards for supply chain security management systems designed to protect people, goods, infrastructure and equipment, including means of transport, against security incidents and to prevent their potentially devastating effects.
A new business tool to help organizations communicate their environmental performance
The new ISO 14063:2006, Environmental management – Environmental communication – Guidelines and examples, will assist organizations to communicate their views and present and explain the environmental implications of their activities, products and services. It advises them to listen to interested parties and incorporate their views and requests.
New ISO 10014 standard explains how to achieve financial and economic benefits with ISO 9001:2000
Because the new ISO 10014 standard gives clear guidelines on achieving financial and economic benefits via ISO 9001:2000-based quality management systems, it could well become bedside reading both for top managers and for those quality professionals who may need to convince them.
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FAQs on quality management specification for oil and natural gas sector
A successful partnership between ISO and the international oil and natural gas industry resulted in the publication in 2003 of a technical specification (TS) for implementing ISO 9001-based quality management systems in this sector. ISO/TS 29001:2003, Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries - Sector-specific quality management systems - Requirements for product and service supply organizations, is on its way to becoming the common and unique basis for the industry's quality management system requirements worldwide. Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) on ISO/TS 29001 are available on the public information section of the online working area of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 67 Materials, equipment and offshore structures for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries.
http://textilescommittee.nic.in/iso1.htm
NRBT
http://www.qcin.org/html/nqc/page9a.htm
http://www.qcin.org/html/nrbpt/QMS_CONS/nrbpt_qms_cons_reg_fee_struc.php
Consultancy Development Centre (CDC)
http://www.dsir.gov.in/a_body/cdc/cdc.html
[PDF] Management system standards update
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Guidelines for the selection of QMS consultants and use of their services
http://web9.h7959.serverkompetenz.net/projekt01/media/geschbereich/ISO-TS21095.pdf
Consultants of all industries have earned the image of sometimes dubious individuals who deliver little in return for high price. In many cases, terminated or unemployed individuals open up shop as consultants, backed only with the experience that got them terminated or unemployed in the first place. Case examples abound of companies who have spent thousands of dollars on consultants only to fire them after months of poor results.
http://www.oxebridge.com/news.asp?ID=180
ISO 9000 for small and medium scale enterprises
http://www.globalqualityvillage.com/iso9000.php
How many Companies have lost their ISO 9001 certification
http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?p=168853
Do it yourself or use a consultant, how to select the consultant, guideleines from ISO
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/explore/smsenterprises.html
“If your business is well established and been trading for at least three years, I could carry out an ISO 9001 audit today and it is likely you will be around 80% compliant, because ISO 9001 is not just good management practice – it is common sense.”
David Wadlow
http://www.lrqa.co.uk/guidance/implementing/qms/consultantsview/default.asp?page=1
How to execute an ISO 9000 project
http://securematrix.in/content/category/5/21/46/
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PRELIMINARY GAP ANALYSIS FOR ISO 9001:2000
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