ISO 9001:2000 Visit Plan

Fresh from a long day meeting! Wheu!

It was the final meeting before we schedule our first internal audit. Run down all the requirements.. papers, papers, papers.... and papers... oh I forget... documents also (still papers!).

Anyway, today I just want to share to you the Visit Plan we had during the process. Who will visit? Sorry, I forgot to clear some things here. Ok, We hired (let's name them) ABC Company to help us with our initiative to have our office procedures based on ISO standards. They will visit us based on a plan until our first audit comes.

So here's the visit plan.

1st VISIT - Gap Analysis
1. Selection of Management Representative
2. Control Documents Procedures (Master list of Documents)
3. Control of Records Procedures
4. Procedure for Purchase
5. List of Approved Suppliers
6. Supplier Evaluation Form
7. List of Machines
8. List of Tools
9. List of Quality Control Equipments
10. Quality Policy
11. Organizational Chart
12. List of Employee
13. Salary Sheet
14. Training Reocrd
15. Training Need Assessment
16. Identification Machines, Tools, Halls, Areas, etc.
17. All other Formats


2nd VISIT
1. Review all the work of Last visit
2. Procedure for Human Resources
3. Procedure for Management Commitment
4. Procedure for Internal Quality Audit
5. Procedure for Non-conforming Products
6. Procedure for Control of Monitoring & Measuring Devices
7. Job Description


3rd VISIT
1. Stock Register Store (Store must clean and prepapred Stock Register)
2. Stock Report (see client Record)
3. Production Job Card / Report
4. Marketing QT System
5. Verification of old visit work
6. Give Quality Manual
7. Procedure for Corrective & Preventive Action
8. Give Training to Worker about Quality Policy and ISO 9001 Introduction
9. Verifying all the work related to 1st visit.


4th VISIT
1. Incoming Inspection Report
2. IN-process Inspection Report
3. Final Inspection Report
4. Verify all working which is done by MR
5. File labeling, supplier evaluation, list of machine, list of tools, etc
6. Display of Quality Policy and Organizational Chart
7. Training provided to Top Management / Other Managers
8. Confirm First Audit Schedule

Today, we just finished the 4th visit.... but not item 8!

ISO Certification: 9001 and 14001

I am currently working on our ISO Certification: both 9001 & 14001. Too much work to be done. That's why most of the time I prefer to take a sleep than blogging!

Anyway, for those who are not much familiar with ISO Certification, let me give you some idea:

International Organization for Standardization (ISO???? It should be IOS!!!) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1947 in an attempt to standardize commercial products and services. With its well-respected process, it gained popularity and was able to influence policy makers and legislators in most countries and companies participating in international trade, as well as in local market with high regards to quality.

ISO offers specific standards on most services and products known to us. Good thing with this standardization is that what is good practice in this side of the world can also be found in a another place where ISO standards are being implemented.

For our reference here, we are only talking about just two certification that they offer:

ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems - Requirements
and
ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standards

But just like any other organization or group, ISO received a lot of criticisms. One most outstanding known issue is that ISO is just documents and not much about the essence of it. They said that during the process of getting a certification, a company is much more concern in completing the requirements and documentation rather than the procedure that these documentation are what for.

I will give you my experiences during this process until we get these certification. I will share to you what I think about this certification and the process involved and whatever learnings that I will gain here. That's why I'm starting another category in this blog: ISO 9001 & 14001...MY WAY!!!

For the meantime... need to resst....zzzzzzz.....

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