Quality management, proposed

Written Standards. Many existing programs may have been developed informally without written standards or expectations. A Quality Management approach requires that such standards be proposed, approved, and adopted. These standards form the basis for any program, they outline the objectives and they should be based on customer needs. 

You will need to undertake a series of interviews to understand existing PSM and ESH programs. You may also need to conduct some interviews to confirm aspects of your quality management system. However, if the Quality Management system is not well documented this may indicate a weakness, and you should reconsider the wisdom of moving forward with the proposed integration. It is essential to test how the processes are actually functioning, as this frequently differs from any description, formal or informal. 

Measurement of performance. Quality Management requires that measures of performance be established for every activity. These measures include end-of-pipe measurement, such as amounts of material released into the environment or injury rates, and in-process measures of how efficiently you are managing, such as time to review safety improvement proposals or total resources expended on PSM. Each team should be required to identify potential performance measures for the processes they are developing and the activities these processes manage. Many of the end-of-pipe measures will already exist these should be critically examined to ensure that they truly measure performance and are not unduly influenced by other factors. For example, the number of accidents in a fleet of road vehicles is almost directly dependent on the number of miles driven with no improvement in performance, a reduction in miles driven would reduce the number of accidents. 

The pilot study is likely to use all the same Quality Management tools that were used for the integration framework development (Chapter 5). However, the limited scope of the pilot study enforces some limitations and compromises—it will not be possible to make changes outside of the department covered by the pilot. Any existing interfaces with other departments must remain the same. This will impact the design phases of the work. For example, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) may currently be prepared locally, in the overall project it might be proposed to develop these centrally. However, for the pilot study it will not be possible develop the central resource so the pilot would have to continue to rely on local resources and there will be no efficiency improvement. 

Increasingly strict environmental control laws have resulted in a need to reduce the SOx emissions from most stationary sources, including FCCU s. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has proposed that limits be placed on the amount of SOx emissions from new, modified and rebuilt FCCU s ( ). Several local agencies have already placed limits on SOx emissions. For example, the California South Coast Air Quality Management District, in which 10 refineries are located, has an SOx emissions limit of 60 kg (132 lbs) of SOx (expressed as S0 ) per 1,000 barrels of oil fed to the FCCU. ... 

In the analysis presented above, critical factors have been identified. This knowledge about critical factors and the experience gained from air quality management in the selected areas is used to propose possible courses of action for dealing with air quality issues in critical areas. 

As it turned out, in general, pharmaceutical drug manufacturers already operating under GMP did not expect a marked benefit from being officially ISO 9000 certified. As a commonsense approach to take and combine the best of ISO and GMP, however, the use of a quality management system along the structure proposed by ISO 9000 became accepted practice in the industry. Manufacturers of API, on the other hand, and producers and suppliers of bulk chemicals, found the idea of getting the ISO 9000 certification quite attractive. 

The complexity of the agenda needed to study the variables, variability and variations of research related to the quality management of care (according to Holze-mer and Reilly, 1995) in disasters is significant, particularly with the experience and threat of terrorism. This chapter has proposed a possible framework for the organization of the research agenda, highlighted some of the research that has been conducted by federal-sector... 

A supplier may be contacted informally to discuss the most appropriate audit route, prior to any formal approach being made to conduct an audit. Any proposal or bid made by a supplier should contain the contact details for the quality managers and personnel so that the auditor can easily liaise with the appropriate representative in the supplier s organization to discuss the next steps. When the auditor contacts the supplier to organize an audit, the supplier should also get the auditor s details (full name, postal address, telephone, fax, e-mail, and even video conference details where appropriate) for future communications. 

By definition, it is proposed that the future plans for promoting VAM to producers of analytical data should concentrate on the individual or department with responsibility for the production and overall quality of an analytical measurements . In some cases these individuals may be senior decision makers but in the majority of cases these are more likely to be bench analysts, quality managers and laboratory team leaders. This suggests that an appropriate base for segmentation of the producer audience for VAM is by job function, with the target segments ranging from those individuals who actually make the measurements (producer analysts) to those who have overall responsibility for their quality (senior decision-makers), but who may not actually carry out any analysis themselves. 

National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Quality Management for unit-use testing proposed guideline EP18-R Wayne, PA National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards,... 

During this year, we prepared a proposal to the South Coast Air Quality Management District to obtain funding to perform a demonstration project at SunLine Transit, where we will install insulated pressure vessels in two of the SunLine fleet trucks. The proposal has been approved and we will use these funds to complement the budget received from the hydrogen program. 

Due to the expanding nature of the LIMS market, there are a growing number of suppliers moving into the field. If a pharmaceutical manufacturer proposes to use a new supplier or a new LIMS product, it makes a great deal of sense to conduct a Supplier Audit of the proposed LIMS supplier. If it has been some time since a supplier has been audited (e.g., one year or more), it is recommended that a follow-up audit be conducted to confirm that the supplier s Quality Management System (QMS) continues to be followed. It is important that this audit be conducted prior to placing an order for the LIMS, as there may be some concerns regarding the ability of the supplier to produce a quality product. 

In the Toyota Education Model the lean tool. Cl and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is taught to employees. PDCA is a visual management tool used to organize and implement the proposals to solve problems suggested by employee teams and quality management circles. The PDCA cycle is the practical method of using a common problem solving format to provoke small improvement steps, also... 

This study proposes a process to improving WSN safety based on a model for continual data quality improvement (TDQM-Total Data Quality Management) first proposed by (Wang et al. 2001). The apph-cation of the TDQM model for continual improvement of the safety aspects of WSN is an approach that covers all the stages ofthe generation of required information in this case, that pertaining to data quality. Figure 1 illustrates the model adapted for continual improvement of DQ for WSN. 

What has been quoted from Drucker is in the same class as the first point in W. Edward Deming s often cited Condensation of the 14 Points of Management, as listed in his book Out of the Crisis. Deming is world renown with respect to quality management. Deming proposed that an entity should establish ... 

Whilst this handbook is aimed at quality management of the construction of process plants, the principles, approach and methods proposed are to a large extent relevant to a range of other industrial installations. These include inter alia power plants, hulk Hquid storage depots, sewage treatment works and waste disposal facilities. 

Another problem which can arise is when a quality management system (QMS) proposed is too complicated for the activity or situation in question, with the texts of documentation couched in pompous terms, which practical men on construction sites have difficulty in taking seriously. To quote the reaction of one such person faced with this situation, QA is an expensive waste of time, generating unnecessary paperwork and stopping people getting on with the real work. This state of affairs can be alleviated by top management exercising special care to recruit to posts of responsibility in the quality domain competent individuals familiar with the industry. Too often these positions are considered as token posts to be filled on a stop-gap basis. 

The construction contractor s site quality plan (SQP) is a contractual document to be prepared and presented to the EPCM constructor s site quality assurance manager as soon as possible after the arrival of the construction contractor on the site. It is a brief straightforward document that defines and explains how the contractor proposes to manage quality issues on site that is to say, it is the roadmap of his quality management system. Chapter headings could be ... 

Although this handbook is focussed on quality management systems for the construction of process plants, most of the principles and procedures proposed can be applied to other types of project. 

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