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Who are these personnel who need organizational freedom and why do they warrant a special mention This is not meant to imply that you should set up a separate quality department. The standard does not in fact require all personnel to have organizational freedom but it suggests that some people will need organizational freedom to do certain things. 

One area of needed organizational change involves the dissemination throughout industry of information developed both in industry and industrial laboratories. At the present time, publication of such material is fragmentary and slow. Consolidated publication, or abstracting of some type spread over a wide audience, should be considered. 

Because change is inevitable and because it can so easily produce problems for companies, the key characteristic of an effective organization from a long-run viewpoint is its ability to anticipate needed organizational changes and to... 

HR must consider the following steps for a much needed organizational development in the apparel industry ... 

The standard requires that the quality policy he relevant to the supplier s organizational goals and the expectations and needs of its customers. 

The second part of the responsibility and authority requirement requires the supplier to define the responsibility, authority, and interrelation of personnel who need the organizational freedom and authority to ... 

To provide staff with the necessary organizational freedom you will need one or more problem-reporting procedures and some policies that give staff the freedom to identify, record, and report problems relating to the product, process, and quality system. 

The elements of the system can be construed to be the 20 elements of ISO 9001. The components of the system are different. ISO 8402 states that a quality system is the organizational structure, procedures, processes, and resources for implementing quality management. It therefore follows that in reviewing the quality system one needs to review each of these aspects. 

Establish whether there is conflict between the stated quality policy, the quality objectives, and the organizational goals and expectations and needs of your customers. 

Establish customer needs and expectations and define organizational goals and record them in the business plan. 

How do you ensure that, when needed, personnel have the organizational freedom to identify and record product, process, and quality system problems, provide solutions and initiate action to prevent the occurrence and recurrence of any nonconformities ... 

Why should all this be necessary to maintain the quality system The answer can be found in ISO 8402 which defines a quality system as the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources needed to implement quality man-... 

Technical interfaces and organizational interfaces are often inseparable as the detail specification may need to be written around a particular supplier. However, within each development specification the technical interfaces between systems, subsystems, equip-... 

A statement of work which you require the subcontractor to perform - it might be design, development, management, or verification work and will include a list of required deliverables such as project plans, quality plans, production plans, drawings, test data, etc. You need to be clear as to the interfaces both organizationally and technically (see Part 2 Chapter 4). 

This requirement addresses the implementation of the improvement plan prepared to deal with problems requiring preventive action. The improvement plan should have defined who is to take the preventive action and also the extent of the action to be taken that is, only in the area where the trend was detected or over a much wider area. In initiating the action (see also Part 2 Chapter 1 under Personnel with organizational freedom) you need to carry it out in an organized manner, as follows ... 

In the organizational sense, a function is a special or major activity (often unique in the organization) which is needed in order for the organization to fulfill its purpose and mission. Examples of functions are design, procurement, personnel, manufacture, marketing, maintenance, etc. 

Provisions made to prevent failure to satisfy customer needs and expectations and organizational goals. 

At this point in the process, you may find it useful to review the preliminary plan you presented for initial management approval (see Chapter2). That "first take" necessarily lacked the detail you are now able to provide. For example, your initial estimates of time requirements might have predicted 18 months for system design and installation now you reali2e that 24 months will be needed. While the initial plan will require changes, it should have components (organizational, stylistic, narrative) that can be adapted for use in the formal plan. 

The last area addressed by the systems approach is concerned with global issues involving the influence of organizational factors on human error. The major issues in this area are discussed in Chapter 2, Section 7. The two major perspectives that need to be considered as part of an error reduction program are the creation of an appropriate safety culture and the inclusion of human error reduction within safety management policies. 

Management and Policy Influences on Error and Accident Causation As has been emphasized in Chapters 1,2, and 3, the system-induced error view states that it is insufficient to consider only the direct causes of errors. The underlying organizational influences also need to be taken into accoimt. However, most of the available techniques stop when an immediate cause has been identified, such as less than adequate procedures or poor equipment design. The questions of why the procedures were poor, or why the equipment was badly designed, are rarely addressed at the level of policy. Kletz (1994a)... 

TQM has frequently been used to focus on and improve processes in order to meet customer requirements, but not necessarily to look beyond processes for integration opportunities and organizational changes. Thus, it may need to be used in conjunction with another Quality Management system for the purposes of integrating PSM and ESH activities. 

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