About QConsult, Inc.
As experts in International Management Systems Standards (such as ISO 9001, 14001, 18001, 22000, 27001, and 16949), QConsult, Inc. is involved in every stage from planning to implementation to completion offering support thru trainings and internal audits. Our extensive skills encompass all aspects of implementation and operation, including assistance on getting Customer Feedback from clients customer and data analysis. Typically, we are on-site at the client locations establishment of their chosen International Management System Standard.
Our consultants are well versed in all aspects of multiple management systems, from quality to environment, occupational health, safety to Food Safety and Information Security. We pride ourselves on our consultants proven track record for effectively administering multiple implementations. This is due to effectively directing team members in the development of management systems to ensure that all business requirements are met within budget restraints and time schedules.
Consultancy Services
1. ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management Systems)
2. ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management Systems)
3. OHSAS 18001:2007 (Occupational Health and Safety)
4. ISO/TS 16949:2002 (Automotive Production and Service Part Organizations)
5. ISO 27001:2005 (Information Security Management System)
6. ISO 22000:2005 (International Standard for Food Safety Management Systems )
7. Integrated Management Systems
8. Healthcare (For Hospitals, Clinics, and Clinical Laboratories)
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Public and In-house Trainings
1. Awareness trainings on Management System Standards
2. Internal Audit Trainings
3. Train-the-Trainer
4. Disaster Management
5. HACCP
6. Good Manufacturing Practices
7. Management Representative related trainings
8. Legal Requirements Update related to Management System Standards
9. Team Building seminars and workshops
3rd Qtr – 4th Qtr 2009 Training Schedule
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- ISO/TS 16949:2002 Internal Audit
- Disaster Management Program
- Train the Trainer
- ISO 9001:2008 Internal Audit Training
- MR Skills Enhancement Training
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- ISO 14001:2004 Awareness Training
- ISO 14001:2004 Internal Audit Training
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- ISO 9001:2008 Upgrade Training on Significant Change
- OHSAS 18001:2007 Awareness
- OHSAS 18001:2007 Internal Audit Training
- Fundamentals of IT Project Management
- ISO 22000:2005 Awareness (FSMS)
- Building Leadership Skills: Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
- ISO 27001:2005 Awareness and Risk Assessment
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Posts Tagged ‘Environmental Management Systems’
ISO Management System Consulting | Trainings | Internal Audits
August 13th, 2009Environmental Management Systems and Environmental Management Tools
August 13th, 2009The series is made up of documents related to EMS – environmental management tools (i.e.,all other ISO 14000 series documents). This approach takes the view that establishment and implementation of an organization’s EMS is of central importance in determining the organization’s environmental policy,objectives,and targets. Environmental management tools exist to assist the organization in realizing its environmental policy, objectives, and targets.
Environmental Aspects
Identifying the environmental aspects of an organization’s activities, product and services, and determining their relative signification, are important elements of implementing an EMS or conducting EPE (environmental performance evaluation) inan organization. ISO 14001, ISO 14004 and ISO 14031 provide guidance on identifying significant environmental aspects.
ISO 14040 states in its introduction: “LCA (life cycle assessment) is a techniquefor assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated (with products and services ) …LCA can assist in identifying opportunities to improve the environmental aspects of (products and services) at various points in their life cycle”.
Reporting and communicating
In general, the management of an organization will decide the content format of any environmental reporting or communicating. However, the organization may find that it has a number of different reporting needs and intended audiences. ISO 14001 and ISO 14004 provide guidance on reporting and communicating information on the environmental aspects and the EMS of an organization. ISO 14010 and ISO 14011 provide guidance on the preparation,content and distributions and claims can be viewed as ways in which the environmental aspects of products and services are reported or communicated, the ISO 14020 standards provide appropriate guidance. ISO 14031 provide appropriate guidance on reporting and communicating performance of an organization. The ISO 14040 standards provide guidance on reporting and communicating the results of an LCA study.
By: Lim Chan Oo
Iso 14001 Environmental Management Systems
August 10th, 2009The individuals dealing with management system development and improvement are often asked about the relative merits of independent as opposed to combined systems for these two standards – and other possibilities as well.
Avoiding the trap of siding with a particular faction within the organisation posing the question, the logical solution is to integrate the systems from the outset. Much of the required material for the environmental standard already exists as part of the quality management system, and the advantage of having one overall management task is surely a real benefit.
The inspection status of the two standards at the present time (2008) introduces a credible reason for splitting the systems, specifically with regard to the distinct difference in the focus on statutory and legal obligations made necessary by the documents. The soon to be appearing revision of ISO9001, supposedly more similar to the recent ISO14001, should take away this seemingly anomalous condition, although it should still be kept in mind that a company is regulated by legal requirements with respect to the environment, regardless of whether or not it utilises the environmental standard.
The expense of creating a new Environmental management system for registration requirements wouldn’t be much different to the expense of a corresponding Quality management system, where as the expense of combining an environmental piece to a current quality system would most likely be much less. This is simply because of a similar basic document framework with compatible requirements. A certain amount of training would be required, both for management and the employees, although any internal auditors may need a great deal of training and mentoring.
There is an additional financial benefit to putting the two systems together – particularly if both don’t initially exist at the beginning of the task – the good fortune to not include any of the bureaucracy that so often results from retaining a management system with a formal registration, particularly the anomalous Quality Manager appointment. This post is a throwback to the application of Quality Assurance within manufacturing, when Chief Inspectors became managers of quality, and business continued in the way it always had. With the introduction of a combined quality and environmental management system the way is clear to dispense with the management post, redistribute responsibilities to those able to deliver results against those responsibilities, and recognize control and development of the management system to be one of Systems Integrity, with little to do with product or service delivery performance.
Outsourcing part or all of this newly defined assignment would result in improved performance at significantly reduced cost.
By: Ed Bones
