The Complete Idiot's Guide to Risk Management


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Manage the risk and maximize the reward! Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully. • The basic categories of business risk • How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular business • How to create practical risk models to plan ahead • How to lessen the impact of risk events should they happen • How to profit from strategic risk taking




The Quality Audit for ISO 9001:2000


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Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 the revised ISO 9001 standard has been implemented and is being used widely. While the basic premise of the original book is still sound, the reality of auditing the new standard has shown up various areas which require refinement - this new edition addresses that need. It remains a pragmatic guide, covering all aspects of auditing, including certification assessment, supplier investigation and internal audit, enabling auditors to appreciate the approaches adopted by those working in related areas. With its detailed analysis of the requirements of ISO 9001:2000, this book will also be of interest to all those involved in implementing certified quality management systems, as well as the auditors who are required to examine those systems. A down-to-earth approach is taken throughout The Quality Audit for ISO 9001:2000, avoiding the impractical and nit-picking methods which have so often characterized quality management audits, making it an invaluable source of realistic advice. It demonstrates how to produce real benefits from an audit programme rather than simply guaranteeing compliance to a documented system. Everyone who sees audits as a useful tool for business improvement should read this book!




The Non-Idiot's Guide to ISO 9001


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Understand, implement, and enjoy the fruits of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System standard. This book deciphers the requirements into the principles that serve your organization. The ISO 9001:2015 standard, a vast improvement from the earlier versions, is a remarkable and concise model of a high-performance organization. However, it is just a model. This book enables the organization to build on that model to create a quality management system that propels the organization to optimal performance with cost-less collateral compliance to the standard.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Medical Tourism


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You've heard you can save big bucks by heading overseas for major medical care-- but you don't want your concerns to get lost in translation. Learn to navigate the international health-care system and find the destination that works best for you.




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Airport Manager's Guide to Sms


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Safety management systems for airport managers is a reference book to assist airport and airline managers to effectively understand the SMS.




The ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Handbook


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This handbook is a comprehensive reference designed to help professionals address organizational issues from the application of the basic principles of management to the development of strategies needed to deal with today’s technological and societal concerns. The fifth edition of the ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Handbook (CMQ/OE) has undergone some significant content changes in order to provide more clarity regarding the items in the body of knowledge (BoK). Examples have been updated to reflect more current perspectives, and new topics introduced in the most recent BoK are included as well. This handbook addresses: • Historical perspectives relating to the continued improvement of specific aspects of quality management • Key principles, concepts, and terminology • Benefits associated with the application of key concepts and quality management principles • Best practices describing recognized approaches for good quality management • Barriers to success, common problems you may encounter, and reasons why some quality initiatives fail • Guidance for preparation to take the CMQ/OE examination A well-organized reference, this handbook will certainly help individuals prepare for the ASQ CMQ/OE exam. It also serves as a practical, day-to-day guide for any professional facing various quality management challenges.




Industrial System Engineering for Drones


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Explore a complex mechanical system where electronics and mechanical engineers work together as a cross-functional team. Using a working example, this book is a practical “how to” guide to designing a drone system. As system design becomes more and more complicated, systematic, and organized, there is an increasingly large gap in how system design happens in the industry versus what is taught in academia. While the system design basics and fundamentals mostly remain the same, the process, flow, considerations, and tools applied in industry are far different than that in academia. Designing Drone Systems takes you through the entire flow from system conception to design to production, bridging the knowledge gap between academia and the industry as you build your own drone systems. What You’ll LearnGain a high level understanding of drone systems Design a drone systems and elaborating the various aspects and considerations of design Review the principles of the industrial system design process/flow, and the guidelines for drone systems Look at the challenges, limitations, best practices, and patterns of system design Who This Book Is For Primarily for beginning or aspiring system design experts, recent graduates, and system design engineers. Teachers, trainers, and system design mentors can also benefit from this content.




Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Audits


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This book provides a step-by-step guide to technical and operational integrity audits which has become invaluable for senior management and auditors alike. This book: Shows practitioners and students how to carry out internal audits to the key international health and safety, environment and quality standards Contains over 20 new case studies, 20 additional A-Factors, and superb new illustrations Includes checklists, forms and practical tips to make learning easier. With the addition of colour, Health and Safety Environment and Quality Audits delivers a powerful and proven approach to auditing business-critical risk areas. It covers each of the aspects that need to be taken into account for a successful risk-based audit to international or company standards and is an important resource for auditors and lead auditors, managers, HSEQ professionals, and others with a critical interest in governance, assurance and organizational improvement. The companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/asbury contains relevant articles, example risk management frameworks, and a video by the author explaining the key aspects of the book.




ISO 13485


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Although complex and lengthy, the process of certification for the ISO 13485 can be easily mastered using the simple method outlined in ISO 13485: A Complete Guide to Quality Management in the Medical Device Industry. Written by an experienced industry professional, this practical book provides a complete guide to the ISO 13485 Standard certification for medical device manufacturing. Filled with examples drawn from the author’s experience and spanning different sectors and fields of the medical device industry, the book translates the extra ordinary requirements and objectives of the standard into feasible activities and tasks. The book provides a full analysis of each clause and sub clause through quality perspectives: the implications on an organization, its processes, management, human resources, infrastructures, work environment, control and effectiveness, documentations and records. The book is organized like the standard itself — the table of contents is identical to the ISO 13485 Standard’s table of contents — making it user friendly, familiar, and unintimidating. You can use the book as a consulting session — read it, explore it ,extract ideas — and draw on the information and knowledge that suits you and your organization, and then apply it effectively to your quality management system and processes.