Download or read book Excellence Beyond Compliance written by William I. White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many companies limp along from day-to-day treating the quality side of the business as a necessary evil, and doing only what is minimally necessary for compliance to regulations. This kind of approach to compliance almost always results in inefficiencies and sometimes can result in a curious kind of noncompliance. Documentation created with compliance as the sole consideration often ends up confusing the employees who must use the documentation. This book looks beyond what is necessary for compliance alone to address what makes a quality management system (QMS) both effective and efficient. This book also never forgets that real people must make any QMS work; the book provides a blueprint for creating a QMS that real people will find useful. After a review of the challenges that any medical device company faces in the world of today—the multiple sources of QMS requirements—the book poses a question: are we satisfied with the QMS we have now, or could we do better? If we want to do better, this book can help. This book offers: Advice that will lead to an effective and efficient QMS. Detailed guidance on the key decisions to be made regarding the quality system being established. Detailed ideas on how to execute those decisions. Up-to-date information on compliance to current regulations and standards and guidance on staying up to date. Specific examples of procedures. Information regarding requirements for combination products, such as a drug + device combination. Advice on incorporating risk management in the QMS.
Download or read book Excellence Beyond Compliance written by James F. Gesualdi and published by . This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we do TODAY to improve the well being of animals? People are passionate about animals, and this is reflected in the diverse opinions surrounding animal issues. Underlying all the spirited discussions is a common desire to make a positive difference in the lives of animals. EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE: Enhancing Animal Welfare Through the Constructive Use of the Animal Welfare Act helps zoological professionals and organizations make such a difference, and in doing so reframes the conversation about animal welfare. Excellence Beyond Compliance presents a voluntary, non-regulatory plan for attaining compliance with the federal Animal Welfare Act-and moving beyond it to embrace excellence in animal welfare. Zoological professionals and organizations engage daily with countless challenges and opportunities. Excellence Beyond Compliance empowers them to channel their passion and dedication into concrete actions to better serve the animals in their care. It is an essential guidebook that will improve-and even transform-those who put its principles into practice. Some of the key items addressed for zoological organizations include: - Creating an outstanding leadership team, including a dedicated Animal Welfare Officer - Preparing for inspections, with tips on creating inspection checklists, conducting entrance briefings and ensuring key staff availability during the inspection - Interacting with inspectors during and after inspections, including advice on how to respectfully address differences of opinion with an inspector - Utilizing self-certified compliance reporting to maintain compliance and document improvements between inspections and accreditation reviews - Designing Animal Welfare Enhancement Plans and Zoo, Aquarium and Park Improvement Plans - Addressing serious incidents and emergencies to ensure the safety of animals and people - Handling investigations, complaints, and other challenges in a manner that promotes exceptional animal welfare and organizational excellence - Developing an organizational culture where everyone shares responsibility for-and can make a difference in-the lives of animals. For twenty-five years, author and attorney James F. Gesualdi has dedicated himself to legal, regulatory and strategic engagement with animal welfare and wildlife conservation issues. Excellence Beyond Compliance distills the experience and wisdom he has gained along the way into an inspiring yet eminently practical guide to bring people together to enhance the lives and welfare of animals. Advance recognition for EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE: Enhancing Animal Welfare Through the Constructive Use of the Animal Welfare Act "Jim Gesualdi is a knowledgeable, tireless, and enthusiastic advocate for improving the welfare of animals in human care. His Excellence Beyond Compliance program is a unique resource, full of advice and useful tools gleaned from decades of experience, to help those of us dedicated to caring for animals do our very best each day. As he frequently says: 'It's all about the animals.' " Wendy Bulger, Esq. General Counsel San Diego Zoo Global "Gesualdi's primer is a 'must have' for anyone or any facility attempting to navigate the Animal Welfare Act. His team approach to welfare challenges every staff member to recognize that their performance, no matter what the task, should translate to improving the welfare of the animals in their care. My favorite quote: 'EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE is an ongoing process rather than a destination.' His challenge of continuous improvement takes us from just meeting requirements to developing a culture dedicated to welfare, health and safety for animals and their caregivers." Yvonne Nadler, DVM, MPH Consultant to the Zoological community on all hazards contingency planning
Download or read book Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership written by Environmental Auditing Roundtable and published by . This book was released on 1995-04-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the best and most successful companies are no longer content to do the minimum required to achieve compliance with environmental regulations. Instead, a new standard of environmental excellence has arisen. A high-quality environmental system is now seen both as a means to regulatory compliance and as a very cost-effective way of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of operations in general. In this way, the environmental audit often serves as a significant driver for improvement within the overall management system. Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership details these new techniques and practices in environmental auditing and shows how their place in a Total Quality Environmental Management System can help companies achieve environmental excellence and a competitive advantage. Sponsored by the Environmental Auditing Roundtable, this book covers the major topics in defining, conducting, assessing, and improving an environmental audit. Unique in its breadth and depth of coverage, this book includes: Comprehensive treatment of environmental auditing by recognized leaders in the field Application of Total Quality Environmental Management methods to develop efficient environmental auditing programs that delve into root causes and sort out what adds value from what does not Analysis of the movement toward standardization of environmental auditing principles and practices, including such timely international issues as efforts to produce North American standards, the European Eco-label and Audit scheme, and the International Standard Organization's ISO 9000 and 14000 series Examination of innovative auditing programs developed by leading corporations and trade organizations, including Allied Signal, Union Carbide, Lockheed, and many others Latest methods of information management technology and automated auditing for assembling, auditing, and reviewing environmental data Because of its thorough, authoritative examination of the issues, illuminating case studies, and wealth of practical guidance, environmental professionals and corporate and government managers will find Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership essential reading on this crucial topic. Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership Beyond Compliance to Environmental Excellence To meet the challenges of regulatory compliance, international standards, and the need to "work smarter" in today's marketplace, greater emphasis is being placed on environmental auditing—especially among the most forward-looking companies. In this book, you will find a comprehensive presentation of the entire field of environmental auditing by leading experts in the field. It covers the latest practices and shows, through specific case studies, how major corporations are applying them to achieve environmental excellence and competitive advantage. Sponsored by the Environmental Auditing Roundtable, this book covers the major procedures used in defining, conducting, assessing, and improving an environmental auditing program. Such timely and important subjects as Total Quality Environmental Management, the internationalization of standards, and the use of information technology are clearly presented and explored. Auditing for Environmental Quality Leadership will give managers, consultants, and environmental professionals authoritative guidance in this increasingly important field.
Download or read book Beyond Compliance Design of a Quality System written by Janet Bautista Smith and published by ASQ Quality Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next Level Results for Your QMS You don't just want a compliant quality management system, you want a robust one a QMS that's easy to implement and maintain. Beyond Compliance Design merges two sets of experiencess that of a quality system designer/auditee and that of an external auditor to help you make that possible. Move beyond a focus on checking all the right boxes to the opportunities for continuous improvement, waste reduction, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction and delight. Author Janet Bautista Smith, with the contributions of external auditor, Robert Alvarez, guides you in this process with her models, case studies, lessons learned, and an array of simple tools and templates you can customize for your organization and begin using immediately, including: Implementing layered metrics to align with the auditor's perspective Employing DMAIC analysis to process customer complaints Discovering hidden factories through a Process Grid Walk Addressing common pitfalls of documentation systems with lean solutions Achieving operational compliance and excellence within processes Determining QMS, customer, and auditor satisfaction Fostering synergy among the QMS, customer, and auditor perspectives Engaging management review for critical support
Download or read book Beyond Great written by Arindam Bhattacharya and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written. Beyond Great answers to two fundamental questions which face business leaders today in a world shaped by daunting and disruptive technological, economic, and social change. First, what is outstanding performance in this new volatile era? Second, how do we build competitive advantage in a world with new and often uncertain rules? Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, this book presents a comprehensive framework for building a high performing, resilient, adaptive, and socially responsible global company. The book begins by taking an incisive look at these disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. Distilled from the study of hundreds of companies and interviews with dozens of business leaders, the authors have distilled nine core strategies – the new winning playbook of the 21st century. Beyond Great argues that business leaders today must lead with a new kind of openness, flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.
Download or read book Food Safety Regulatory Compliance written by Preston W. Blevins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global sourcing of ingredients has created complex supply chains, significant management challenges, and additional regulatory compliance requirements. This places tremendous pressure on food manufacturers, many of whom lack the knowledge, concepts, techniques, and procedures to comply with these increased requirements. Providing a roadmap for
Download or read book Beyond Compliance written by Nicholas Cheremisinoff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS).The author, who has implemented hundreds of successful EMS programs throughout North America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East, provides a detailed explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit refinery operations in complying with environmental laws and improving the overall efficiency of their operations. The author's approach has been internationally recognized as an integrated model that captures improved compliance and financial savings by reducing operating costs through dedicated pollution prevention programs.
Download or read book Beyond Compliance Design of a Quality System written by Janet Bautista Smith and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next Level Results for Your QMS You don't just want a compliant quality management system, you want a robust one a QMS that's easy to implement and maintain. Beyond Compliance Design merges two sets of experiencess that of a quality system designer/auditee and that of an external auditor to help you make that possible. Move beyond a focus on checking all the right boxes to the opportunities for continuous improvement, waste reduction, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction and delight. Author Janet Bautista Smith, with the contributions of external auditor, Robert Alvarez, guides you in this process with her models, case studies, lessons learned, and an array of simple tools and templates you can customize for your organization and begin using immediately, including: Implementing layered metrics to align with the auditor's perspective Employing DMAIC analysis to process customer complaints Discovering hidden factories through a Process Grid Walk Addressing common pitfalls of documentation systems with lean solutions Achieving operational compliance and excellence within processes Determining QMS, customer, and auditor satisfaction Fostering synergy among the QMS, customer, and auditor perspectives Engaging management review for critical support
Download or read book Imposing Duties written by Malcolm K. Sparrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-02-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, incorporated a classic enforcement mentality, based on the underlying assumption that a ruthless and efficient investigative and enforcement capability would produce compliance through the mechanisms of deterrence. In these fields, and perhaps in many other enforcement or compliance oriented professions, Sparrow believes the traditional enforcement approach is under stress. There are too many violators, too many laws to be enforced, and not enough resources to get the job done. In this book, Sparrow draws out remarkable parallels in the ways these professions are adapting to meet their current challenges, as they reject their traditional reliance on retrospective, case-by-case, after-the-fact enforcement. Rather than perpetuating their dependence on processes, procedures, and coverage, these professions are each developing new capacities for analyzing important patterns of noncompliance, prioritizing risks, and designing intelligent interventions using a much broader range of tools. Sparrow extracts the essence of the transformations underway, explores the critical implications for information management, and lays out the issues that need resolution before the emerging compliance strategies can reach maturity. This book is required reading for all those concerned with either the theory or the practice of the compliance side of government.
Download or read book Beyond Compliance written by Ralf T. Grünendahl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 practical Actions for IT management to improve your business and reach compliance at the same time. How to make sense of SOX, COBIT, CoSo, ISO 20000, BS7799/ISO17799. "Beyond Compliance" provides a structured and yet practical approach to improve IT Governance and implement IT Risk Management to comply with regulatory and auditory requirements and increase the benefits IT delivers to the business. Ralf -T. Grünendahl and Peter H.L.Will argue that you should use the momentum SOX or other external triggers provide to reorganise the way you handle your IT.
Download or read book Cybersecurity It s Not All About Technology Navigating the Unknown of Cybersecurity GRC and AI to Achieve Efficiency Security and Increase Revenue written by Dasha Davies and published by Steagle Consulting Group LLC. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most executives say they care about cybersecurity. If that's true, why do we still see so many breaches? And why do data breaches increase every year? Yes, hackers are getting more creative, but security technology is also getting smarter, better, and faster. So what are we missing? In my over 25-year career in cybersecurity, I have noticed a few patterns: The belief that cybersecurity is mostly about technology An overwhelming number of great technology gadgets and pressure to choose the best one Excellent product marketing that promises to solve all or many of our security problems Limited resources, know-how, time, and budget Lack of consideration/implementation of GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) Reliance on the IT and security team or your MSP to make everything secure. The complexity and not knowing where to start Yes, it is a puzzle of technology, people, processes, governance, risk, compliance, standards, industry, and legal requirements—no matter what industry you are in, what country you operate in, or where your clients are located. This book is designed to help you understand: What else may I be missing? Why GRC is so important and how to easily implement it How to minimize my AI risks and leverage the opportunities it offers What questions should I ask my internal team and suppliers to understand the gaps and risks? How do we perform internal security, risk, and compliance checks? As a business owner myself, I understand the desire to protect and grow your business. While you are focusing on growth, service, and product delivery, managing your staff, and ensuring your IT is operational, this book will show you areas that you may not have paid enough attention to. These areas are equally important for your business protection and growth. This book will show you how to leverage security, GRC, and AI to your benefit to grow, increase customer trust and confidence, and set yourself apart from the competition. This is the book that will help you put the puzzle together. Bonus: With this book, you get access to our continuously growing online collection of templates, playbooks, worksheets, and insights to implement all of this.
Download or read book Breaking Down the Wall written by Margarita Espino Calderon and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a dark and stormy night in Santa Barbara. January 19, 2017. The next day’s inauguration drumroll played on the evening news. Huddled around a table were nine Corwin authors and their publisher, who together have devoted their careers to equity in education. They couldn’t change the weather, they couldn’t heal a fractured country, but they did have the power to put their collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our multilingual learners reach their highest potential. Proudly, we introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners’ Success. In this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: learners with tremendous assets. The authors’ contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their own efforts to realize our English learners’ potential: 1. From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based 2. From Compliance to Excellence 3. From Watering Down to Challenging 4. From Isolation to Collaboration 5. From Silence to Conversation 6. From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content 7. From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning 8. From Monolingualism to Multilingualism 9. From Nobody Cares to Everyone/Every Community Cares Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it’s laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children’s personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve.
Download or read book Beyond compliance written by Ann E. Kent and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively researched study of Chinese participation in international organisations, this book argues that the record of China's international behaviour since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system.
Download or read book Auditing Beyond Compliance written by Janet Bautista-Smith and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a portable audit model to facilitate a simple, flexible, and effective audit of single or multiple quality system standards and achieve both compliance and initiation of improvement initiatives. This model allows easy connection and interchangeability of the multiple standards even under rapid system changes typical of modern day operations. This will allow you to focus on compliance verification and improvement at a high level of consistency with minimum process disruption and cost. Emphasis is not only on compliance but also on improvement partnership with operations through the use of strategy models. These strategy models help accentuate the internal audit role as a dynamic element and catalyst for improvement. Real life-based challenges are used in case studies to demonstrate the application of typical internal audit methodologies combined with an implementation engine such as Lean auditing strategies. This will clarify theories that are commonly viewed as abstract by the novice and misunderstood by experienced professionals. This is the breakthrough from a dormant internal audit program into a proactive tool for added-value improvement. Lean methodology is integrated through simple models ans the focus is using logical sense to understand and apply the concept.
Download or read book Small and Medium Sized Companies in Europe written by David Hitchens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental performance of SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) is an area of major policy concern. SMEs in Europe reports on factors influencing the environmental performance of SMEs across four European countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. While there are a range of factors which are expected to influence the take up of clean technology, this book focuses on three key hypotheses, namely firm competitiveness, culture and use and availability of information and advice. The book is unique as it is based on in-depths interviews conducted in 300 SMEs and an additional postal survey with more than 800 replies.
Download or read book Mine Health and Safety Management written by Michael Karmis and published by SME. This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on instilling a safety culture and fostering the ability to recognize and manage health and safety responsibilities and requirements. It details effective and safety management systems and concentrates on safety and health hazard anticipation, identification, evaluation, and control.
Download or read book Beyond Crises written by Debbie Zacarian and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are some lessons learned from the pandemic? We learned that, in times of crises, the humanitarian needs of students, families, and ourselves must be a top priority. We learned that forming effective partnerships with families and communities is essential to the health and well-being of our children. We were offered a blunt reminder that a system designed to serve the interests of a privileged few was destined to fail our historically underserved students, especially our millions of multilingual learners. Above all, we learned that the “normal” many of us have yearned for was never good enough—that we must envision a “better world,” where we build on our multilingual students’ unique assets and cultivate their inner brilliance. Only then will we deliver on their promise. It’s this “better world,” a world in which communities, schools, and classrooms work together as a “whole-child ecosystem,” Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities, Schools, and Classrooms sets out to create. Taking a look from the outside in, Debbie Zacarian, Margarita Calderón, and Margo Gottlieb address three critical arenas: 1. Imagining Communities describes how to design and enact strengths-based family and community partnerships, including the critical importance of identifying, valuing, and acknowledging each member’s assets and competencies, and the ways recent crises have amplified their struggles. 2. Imagining Schools takes an up-close look at policies, structures, and now irrelevant ways of schooling that call for change and how we might reconfigure professional development to ensure every teacher and administrator is dedicated to the well-being and success of our multilingual learners. 3. Imagining Classrooms demonstrates how to optimize learning opportunities—both virtual and face-to-face—so our diverse students grow cognitively, linguistically, and social-emotionally, and accentuate their talents in knowing and using multiple languages in linguistically and culturally sustainable environments. “Student and family, classroom, school, and local community are not silos unto themselves,” Debbie, Margarita, and Margo insist. “They are part of a larger whole that is interrelated and interconnected and, even, interdependent on each other. By forming stronger alliances, we can realize the power of truly working, socializing, and flourishing together.” Beyond Crises is the first critical step forward.
