Below are four of the seven principles on which ISO 9000 series are based. Match a potential benefit to each of the quality management principles (QMP).

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Quality management principles:
Customer focus = Increased revenue and market share
Engagement of people = Enhanced trust and collaboration throughout the organisation Improvement = Enhanced drive for innovation Evidence-based decision-making = Increased ability to demonstrate effectiveness of past actions According to the Quality management principles document published by ISO, each quality management principle has a statement, a rationale, key benefits, and actions you can take to apply it. Based on these descriptions, the potential benefits can be matched to the corresponding principles as follows:
Customer focus: The primary focus of quality management is to meet customer requirements and to strive to exceed customer expectations. The key benefits of this principle include increased customer value, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, repeat business, reputation, customer base, revenue and market share.
Engagement of people: Competent, empowered and engaged people at all levels throughout the organization are essential to enhance its capability to create and deliver value. The key benefits of this principle include improved understanding of the organization's objectives and values, increased involvement in improvement activities, enhanced personal development, increased motivation and empowerment, enhanced trust and collaboration, and increased recognition and rewards.
Improvement: Successful organizations have an ongoing focus on improvement. The key benefits of this principle include improved organizational capabilities, alignment of improvement activities at all levels, increased ability to anticipate and react to opportunities and threats, enhanced drive for innovation, and increased levels of satisfaction.
Evidence-based decision-making: Decisions based on the analysis and evaluation of data and information are more likely to produce desired results. The key benefits of this principle include improved decision-making processes, increased ability to demonstrate the effectiveness of past decisions, increased ability to review, challenge and change opinions and decisions, and increased ability to improve performance.

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You work for organisation A. You are asked to lead an internal audit of A's quality management system. It has a head office in Plant A1 and a second Plant A2 nearby. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production in A2 was discontinued and it was rented to a logistics organisation B, not related to A. There are no A employees working in A2. Organisation A expects to reassume production in A2 as soon as possible.
Which of the following actions would you consider appropriate when planning the internal audit of A's quality management system?

• A.Visit Plant A2 to interview personnel of company B
• B.Visit Plant A2 to interview B's quality manager
• C.Visit Plant A2 to interview A's security personnel and B's maintenance department
• D.Interview the A2 plant manager, now working in Plant A1

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Which two of the following statements related to Stage 1 of an initial certification audit against ISO 9001:2015 are true?

• A.During the Stage 1 audit, the audit team:
• B.Verifies the degrees of customer satisfaction
• C.Evaluates the conditions of all sites
• D.Reviews the client's management system documented information
• E.Evaluates the results of the last management review
• F.Verifies the compliance with legal requirements
• G.Reviews the processes with high level of risk

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You are carrying out an audit at a single-site organisation seeking certification to ISO 9001 for the first time.
The organization manufactures cosmetics for major retailers.
You are interviewing the Manufacturing Manager (MM).
You: "I would like to begin by looking at the cleaning controls."
MM: "We record the cleaning of the equipment at the end of every batch. This document details the minimum cleaning frequency and the procedures to follow for all areas and each item of equipment. The person who carries out the cleaning puts their initial on the document and records the time and date alongside." Narrative: You sample production records over 3-days and note down evidence of nonconformity as per the table below.

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Nonconformity report
ISO 9001 Clause Number: 8.5.4 Nature of problem: Cleaning and sanitising records are not available for every batch. ISO 9001 requirement that has not been fulfilled: ISO 9001 - "The organization shall implement planned arrangements, at appropriate stages, to verify that the product requirements have been met." Evidence: 40 cleaning records are available for 63 batches.

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You are an auditor from a construction organisation who is conducting a second party audit to ISO 9001 at a steel rolling mill producing structural steelwork. When auditing the rolling process, you find that the operator who is unloading the furnace does not use the adjacent infrared pyrometer to measure the appropriate product temperature in readiness for the next production stage.
You: "How do you tell when the billet is ready for the rolling stage?"
Operator: "I've done this job for 20 years. I can tell by the bright red colour." You: "What happens if the colour is wrong?" Operator: "The billet goes back into the furnace." You: "Is the pyrometer ever used?" Operator: "Only in borderline cases." You continue to interview the operator and find that around 25% of the billets are sent back to the furnace.
This includes 80% of the borderline cases.
Select three options that would provide evidence of conformance with clause 9.1.1 of ISO 9001.

• A.Periodic analysis of the results of temperature checks.
• B.Certification of conformance to national standards from the manufacture of the pyrometer.
• C.An increase in the use of the pyrometer by operators.
• D.Maintenance plan for the furnace.
• E.A procedure that provides instruction in taking billet temperature.
• F.Planning for monitoring and measuring the billet temperature.
• G.A quality objective to achieve lower recycle rates for billets.
• H.Annual review records for furnace operators.

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