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Elevate Your Quality Standards Through Better Communication

06 Mar 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  Quality communication creates quality results. Every organization relies on various degrees of communication, whether it's the transferring of information between your business and a supplier, or internal one-on-one conversations between managers. Having an effective strategy for communication can make a significant impact on your...

Are You Monitoring & Measuring Effectively With ISO 9001?

27 Feb 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  Every successful Quality Management System enforces the concept of collecting and analyzing data to carry out operations efficiently, reduce nonconformities, and continuously improve. Clause 9.1 of the ISO 9001 QMS Standard is titled "Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis and Evaluation", which outlines how critical this step...

5 Common Internal Auditing Mistakes to Avoid

14 Feb 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  For true success and effectiveness of any management system, conducting internal audits is absolutely essential. Internal audits are a key requirement for ISO certification, ensuring a systematic evaluation of a company's management system. Without these audits, certification cannot be achieved, making them a major...

Employee Engagement Practices for Success & Compliance

31 Jan 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  Implementing an ISO management system requires a plethora of resources; financial resources, facilities and equipment, and of course, people. Any organization implementing an ISO management system, whether ISO 9001 or another standard, depends on employee commitment for success.   Employee engagement is crucial to...

Preparing Objectives for the New Year

10 Jan 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  It's time to tackle some new years resolutions, and we don't just mean the ones for personal growth. Organizations everywhere should be taking advantage of this period to reflect on the past year as well as business goals for the year ahead. How did...

How to Prepare for Upcoming ISO Audits

02 Jan 2025 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  The new year has just begun, and with every year comes more audits that are necessary for upkeeping your organization's management systems. Whether you conduct annual internal audits or you're expecting a certification audit soon, they'll approach sooner than you think.   It's important...

The Top 5 Mistakes Businesses Make With ISO 14001

27 Dec 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
  As environmental management becomes increasingly popular, organizations of every size in every industry are learning about the best practices for implementing ISO 14001. If your business is planning to implement an Environmental Management System, or is currently maintaining one, it's important to be aware...

A Guide to Change Management & ISO 9001

06 Dec 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page, Technology
In current day industries and the rapidly evolving global landscape, organizations everywhere should be learning to adapt to new technologies, policies, challenges, and more. There is no business that shouldn't try to keep up with major changes; if you can't adapt, you fall behind in terms...

Tips for ISO Management System Maintenance

29 Nov 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page, Technology
Many of our articles focus on the challenges and benefits of achieving ISO Certification, which is an outstanding milestone for organizations across the globe that are seeking competitive advantages and improved operations. Reaching compliance and becoming ISO certified is often the first step, however, as...

Why ISO Training Matters: Transforming Businesses

15 Nov 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
When organizations pursue ISO certification, one challenge becomes clear: most employees have little to no familiarity with management systems or their objectives. This knowledge gap can lead to costly mistakes, failed audits, and missed opportunities to improve operations.   The solution? ISO training. By investing...

How to Turn Nonconformities into Business Growth

01 Nov 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page
Regardless of whether your organization has just recently implemented a Quality Management System, if you've had one implemented  for years, or perhaps you haven't quite implemented one yet— something all organizations have in common is the possibility of risks and nonconformities. Even the highest quality...

McDonald’s E. coli Breakout

25 Oct 2024 Posted by Oscar Combs in Blog, Home Page, Videos
One person dies and (49) people fall ill due to an E. coli breakout linked to the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burger, which hits close for Oscar, as the Quarter Pounder is his favorite burger. In this episode of The ISO Show, Oscar explores what happened...