Executive responsibility

The standard requires that the supplier s management with executive responsibility define and document its policy for quality. 

The standard requires that the supplier s management with executive responsibility appoints a member of its own management with responsibility for ensuring that quality system requirements are established, implemented, and maintained in accordance with ISO 9001, and for reporting on the performance of the quality system to management for review and as a basis for improvement of the quality system. 

Executive responsibility for drugs and devices at European Commission level is located within the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry. This is the equivalent of a civil service department at national level. As such, the focus is more on the development of policy and legal/administrative provisions. 

Executive responsibility for the administration of regulations at national level is divested in dedicated agencies. Although distinct from government departments, the Ministers of Health are the usual political masters of these national Competent Authorities. Eor example, the authority in Ireland is known as the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) and it covers both drugs and devices. Similar to the EMEA, the authorities are scientific and technical in orientation and are guided by various advisory panels. Their main tasks include ... 

The authors acknowledge past support of the Office of Saline Water, U. S. Department of Interior, and present support from the California State Legislature. This work is being done under the executive responsibility of Everett D. Howe and L. M. K. Boelter, Department of Engineering, University of California. 

Management representative. Management with executive responsibility shall appoint, and document such appointment of, a member of management who, irrespective of other responsibilities, shall have established authority over and responsibility for (i) Ensuring that quality system requirements are effectively... 

The Owner s Project Manager still has the overall project execution responsibility and must ascertain that the contractor s proposed plan and schedule reflect all the available data and that they incorporate any out-of-the-ordinary action that will be taken in the course of the project to achieve the stated objectives. 

Jay Young outlines the basic requirement of the CMA sponsored ANSI Standard and the specific elements required to compose an appropriate Hazard Label . He brings special insight to this task, having served as the CMA executive responsible for the labeling activities of the association. 

Quality management organization (quality manager with executive responsibilities)... 

The company is learning from the mistakes in the production of the 787. The Boeing executive responsible for the 737 program was quoted as indicating that the company will take a "fundamentally different approach with this new program. Rather than a top-down approach to setting supplier requirements and milestones, the company is actively... 

Healthcare organizations and the professionals affiliated with them should make continually improved patient safety a declared and serious aim, by establishing patient safety programmes with defined executive responsibility. 

Recommended Approach to Accounting for Capital A modified approach based on one of the traditional tools is the best fit for supply chain capital cost accounting. Because an organization with its own financial statement might serve many supply chains, SCM demands more detail in accounting for capital costs than an approach like EVA. As Old Line shows, we must associate costs for capital with the process steps needed to make a specihc product. The supply chain is also a multicompany environment in which individual income statements and balance sheets are less relevant. So the primary audience for financial information is not the shareholders, but rather the executives responsible for making supply chains work — and work efficiently. 

Chapter Four returns to the patient safety manifesto and continues with the committment Assume executive responsibility. This chapter focuses on what it looks like to accept responsibility on a personal and organizational level, whether in a clinical discipline, a department, a clinic, a single hospital, a large system of care, in the academic health sciences, or on a governing board. 

Finally, the leaders fully accepted executive responsibility for patient safety. They made a commitment to design and operate safe systems. They promised patients families and health professionals that the organization, as its first priority, would do no harm. 

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