Quality Management
How to Write Error Proof Procedures
Human error is known to be the primary cause of quality and production losses in many industries. Although it is unlikely that human error will ever be eliminated, many human performance problems can be prevented. Human errors start at the design stage. Procedures play a vital role in human reliability. Nevertheless, it is essential to understand human behavior and the psychology of error as well as underst..
How to Write SOP’s for Human Error Reduction
Human error is known to be the primary cause of quality and production losses in many industries. Although it is unlikely that human error will ever be eliminated, many human performance problems can be prevented. Human errors start at the design stage. Procedures play a vital role in human reliability. Nevertheless, it is essential to understand human behavior and the psychology of error as well as underst..
Impaired Loans: Handle with Care - How to Manage, Account For and Collect Them
Impairment in any form of lending is but a usual mishap that will typically occur, as a rule of the game. For bankers, loan impairment is something to prepare for, as early as before setting up operations, and to permanently upgrade. Failure to do that reveals costly. Refusal to do that, though, deprives the bank of lending premiums, in that the bank will not lend to credit-risky borrowers. Hence it is miss..
Implementing an Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework in a Financial Institution
Financial institutions most often inherit some implicit view on their risks and then add elements as time goes by, as mishaps occur and as regulators demand. The result is all too often the spectacle of a claim at consistency, whilst risk priorities are more the result of interdepartmental relationships, and some risks can be misunderstood. However, when setting up a complete framework, pitfalls are legion...
Improve Your IRS Compliance: Use Best Practices for TIN Solicitation
This IRS regulatory compliance training will explain the Best TIN Solicitation Best Practices. While TIN solicitation might sound too lascivious for the legitimate business world, it is critical that every organization take this task seriously. For if they don't, a very uncomfortable and costly audit with the IRS is likely to ensue.Areas CoveredIdentify all required TIN information you need to collectDesign..
Mediating Construction Disputes – How To Be Successful
Mediation is not new. Mediation was employed in ancient India as well as in the Islamic world. In more recent times mediation has been widely adopted in the U.S. construction industry as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Mediation is often employed when claims negotiations fail to reach a resolution in lieu of arbitration or litigation. The webinar discusses mediation as a process and discusse..
Navigating The US Customs Regulations - Title 19 Code of Federal Regulations
Having a solid understanding of applicable regulations is not only legally required, but it can also offer your company tactical and strategic advantages. Preventing fines, penalties, and potential loss of import privileges will keep your business running smoothly, efficiently, and at the lowest cost of operation. Knowing, understanding, and applying the subtle areas of trade compliance and global trade man..
New National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Act (GMO Food Labeling)
The new rule is highly anticipated by industry and will hopefully bring clarity to the long-standing GMO questions, cover financial and risk impact to businesses as well as helping consumers with educated food choices based on science, in short session encapsulates everything industry needs to know on launching the (NBFDSA).Learning Objectives Background on US GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) LabelingBas..
Preparing for a (US and other) Customs Audit
US Customs law dates back to 1879 and was far less burdensome, legally, on the US importer until 1993. Under current law, the US Customs Modernization Act, the US Importer is now mainly responsible for adherence to all US Customs laws and regulations. While Customs calls it a “shared responsibility”, the burden is on the importer to “exercise reasonable care”. In this session, we’ll discuss the basics of a ..
Problem Solving for Using a Combination of Lean, Six Sigma and ISO 9001 Tools
The purpose of this program will be to present how Lean - Six Sigma and ISO 9001 root cause analysis problem-solving tools have evolved into a widely accepted approach to solve problems.Understanding why the organization is important to effective problem solving To show how process improvement techniques and quality management system requirements can be used to compliment and fulfill each other’s requiremen..
Proving & Pricing Subcontractor Delay Claims
Much has been written over the years about proving and pricing contractor claims on construction projects. But little has been published about or presented on subcontractor delay claims. Do subcontractors have the same rights and remedies as the prime contractor? Are they held to the same standards? What are their legal rights? Do owners owe time extensions for subcontractor delays? Are prime contractors at..
Quality System Management Effectiveness
Quality management training will cover principles of QMS that will help your organization implement a QMS that is repeatable and efficient. A good QMS consists of standards and guidelines relating to their everyday business practices including but not limited to policies/procedures (or a Quality Manual), SOPs, and Work Instructions.It’s the common, centralized culture of quality that many people struggle wi..
RFIs – The Paper War & How To Win
This webinar discusses the genesis of RFIs, their development in the industry and frequent common use. The webinar discusses the impact of RFIs on construction projects, drawing upon data provided by a global construction software provider and other studies to assess how RFIs and the RFI process impact both small and large scale construction projects. The webinar addresses the abuse of the RFI process exami..
Risk Control and Risk Management
Ignoring the difference between risk control and management is akin to, on the road, mixing upside barriers and the steering wheel: the former aims at keeping the car on the path whatever comes, whilst the latter helps to keep the car at the optimal place on the road at all times. Such confusion inevitably leads to using soothing risk management patches rather than fully understood solutions, to ..
Risk Management – “Best Practices” / Management Roles and Responsibilities
The key to effective risk management in a corporation or other operating entities is knowing and understanding the types of risk present in its business activities, the ability to identify operating weaknesses that may generate a risk condition, and having formal mechanisms for addressing an identified weakness with the objective to eliminate or modify the associated potential of a risk event. The first lin..