Quality Management System (ISO 9001) has become one of the most popular standards worldwide. Availability of courses, tutorials and literature supporting the implementation and management is widely available. Surprisingly, it can be a struggle for some.

Keep bureaucracy at bay

Compliance with standards and regulations has proven to be a challenging task for businesses. A growing number of formal certifications has been driven by customers demand and independent regulatory bodies. One can argue that common sense has lost with bureaucracy.

Very often companies turn compliance into a living hell through:

• Overcomplicated procedures
• Over engineered manuals
• Lack of basic understanding of the standard
• Misinterretation of requirements

Write a Quality Manual and get over it

Some of you may remember when quality managers were responsible for both quality assurance and compliance. For larger and more complex organisations this might be the thing of the past though. In a highly competitive and regulated world, dedicated resource needs to be available to manage both.

One step closer toward excellence

Quality Manual is no longer required to comply with ISO 9001. However, it might be wise to keep it or develop one to manage the system.

One sure way to take the most of any system is to keep it simple.

Ground rules for creating Quality Manual

• Less is better
• Simplicity wins against complexity
• Follow a structured approach
• Team effort pays better than individual struggle

Hit the ground running with an effective quality manual

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