Is your plan good enough?

Whether your construction project is a small one, like putting on an addition to your home or a large one like building a shopping complex, a Quality Management Plan needs to be put in place. Putting this plan in place can be a daunting task if you attempt to do it without some kind of professional assistance. There are certain requirements that have to be met and can be found in the AS/NZS ISO 9001 standards.

These AS/NZS ISO 9001 standards need to be incorporated in your Quality Management Plan in order for your plan to be a good plan. Your Quality Management Plan must be incorporated to standards witch ensure the quality, environmental friendliness,safety, reliability, efficiency, and interchangeability. You would care when products turn out to be of poor quality, do not fit, are incompatible with equipment that we already have, are unreliable or dangerous.

Most standards were developed after someone, usually a consumer brought the need to the attention of the ISO board. At this time the International Standards are developed by ISO technical committees (TC) and subcommittees (SC) by a six-step process:

1. Proposal stage - Must follow the steps top confirm the standard. A new work item proposal (NP) is submitted for vote by the members. The proposal is accepted if a majority of the members of the TC/SC votes in favour and if at least five members declare their commitment to participate actively in the project. At this stage a project leader responsible for the work item is normally appointed.

2. Preparatory stage - Usually, a working group of experts is set up by the TC/SC for the preparation of a working draft. Successive working drafts may be considered until the working group is satisfied that it has developed the best technical solution to the problem being addressed. At this stage, the draft is forwarded to the working group's parent committee for the consensus-building phase.

3. Committee stage - As soon as a first committee draft is available, it is registered by the ISO Central Secretariat. For comment and voting of the members of TC/SC, it will be distributed. Successive committee drafts may be considered until consensus is reached on the technical content. The text will be finalized as a Draft International Standard (DIS) once consensus attained.

4. Enquiry stage - The DIS is circulated to all ISO member bodies voting and comment within a period of five months. It is approved for submission as a final draft International Standard (FDIS) if a two-thirds majority of the members of the TC/SC are in favour and not more than one-quarter of the total number of votes cast are negative. If the approval criteria are not met, the text is returned to the originating TC/SC for further study and a revised document will again be circulated for voting and comment as a DIS.

5. Approval stage - The final draft International Standard (FDIS) is circulated to all ISO member bodies for a final Yes/No vote within a period of two months. If technical comments are received during this period, they are no longer considered at this stage, but registered for consideration during a future revision of the International Standard. The text is approved as an International Standard if a two-thirds majority of the P-members of the TC/SC is in favour and not more than one-quarter of the total number of votes cast are negative. If the approval wasn't met, it will be sent back to TC/SC for reconsideration for the review of the negative votes.

6. Publication stage - Once a final draft International Standard has been approved, only minor editorial changes, are introduced into the final text. The International Standard is being published by the ISO Central Secretariat where the final text is submitted.

It is obvious after you see the depth involved in just setting the standards that theses standards are needed to make yours the best Quality Management Plan possible.


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