Our Approach To Your Certification

Phase I: Quality Management System Assessment, Management Understanding, Implementation Planning, and ISO Coordinator Preparation. 1. Executive Strategy Planning: This session is designed specifically for the management of your organization. Information is gathered about your organization. Time is spent touring your facility and assessing the state of readiness. The second half of the day is spent with the management and decision makers of your organization, discussing the key elements of the ISO9000 standards. In this discussion and planning session, we will thoroughly discuss the key elements of the ISO9000 series of standards, the registration process, what it will involve, how to prepare for it, and its impact on your organization. During our discussion, we will: · Assess your company's current quality management system · Determine the scope of your registration · Build a plan for completing all necessary activities prior to the registration audit · Assign responsibility for those activities · And schedule the registration audit 2. ISO Coordinator Preparation: The ISO Coordinator preparation is a one-day experience that prepares your key quality personnel with the level of expertise required to successfully maintain your quality management system and pass the registration audit. Proper documentation is a key aspect of become ISO9000 registered, as well as understanding the audit activities. GAB Consultancy will create your ISO Quality Manual and required Quality Procedures. This jump-start will assist your organization in minimizing the total documentation created and will save the use of costly internal personnel in documentation activities. Phase II: Begin implementation of the quality management system, the corrective/preventive action system, and conduct employee preparation Based upon decisions made during the Executive Strategy and Planning Session, certain parts of the quality management system can begin becoming documented procedures, implemented and standardized. 1. Administering a Corrective/Preventive Action System: One of the most rewarding activities from implementing ISO9000 will be the establishment of a formal corrective and preventive action system which serves to eliminate the root cause of problems so they will not reoccur. Most organizations only go as far as correcting apparent problems, but do not address the root cause(s) of the problems. Through our experience, your key employees will learn how to implement a Corrective/Preventive Action System that will: · Address the problem · Implement corrective action · Investigate the cause of the problem · Implement permanent irreversible preventive action · Monitor the results of the preventive action to ensure the problem has truly been solved 2. Consulting Day(s): Consulting days are the key to successfully implementing an ISO9000 compliant quality management system and passing the ISO9000 registration audit the first time. During these consulting days, an ISO9000 Lead Assessor Certified consultant will assess, plan, recommend, implement, and reassess procedures and practices required for registration. Consulting days are designed to compliment the preparation and planning efforts with hands-on expertise. All of our consultants are ISO9000 Lead Assessor Certified, have experience in implementing and managing quality management systems, and will have been involved with internal audits, ISO9000 pre-assessments, and final ISO9000 registration audits. Consulting days are used only at your company's request, and are based on mutually agreed upon terms. Phase III: Complete implementation of the standard's requirements, create evidence of effective implementation, and conduct an internal audit At this point, we are ready to complete the implementation of the requirements of the ISO 9000 Standard. Once all of the requirements have been implemented, evidence of their effectiveness needs to be gathered and preparation for the final audit needs to begin. The standards require your company to conduct a compliance audit using internal auditors. In order to complete Phase III, we will continue use of consulting days, and conduct an Internal Audit, which will result in a final "to do List". Phase IV: Final Phase This phase of preparing for your registration audit consists primarily of putting the final pieces in place, conducting Pre-Assessment Audit and conducting the final Registration Audit. We would like to be present at both of these audits to assure they run smoothly, provide guidance on any follow-up activities, and to congratulate the organization on successfully becoming ISO9000 registered.