Management Systems Scoring

Indicates how closely your systems approach compliance AND how effective your systems are, through the application and implementation of the 8 Management Principles - based on ISO 9001 and requirements of 9004 -, this scoring approach goes beyond simple assessment compliance.

The scoring system employed by C-QES Limited was originally developed by Aegis-Verity, and it provides a more valuable and beneficial assessment of an organisation's management system. C-QES Limited uses the scoring approach as one of its development tools for establishing ISO Management Systems as it focuses on the essential standard requirements which can be lost or buried in some systems.

It employs two approaches:

1) A compliance audit to ascertain how closely you comply with the ISO 9001 (or similar) Standard.

Compliance – have you documented all the activities required by the relevant standard and do you follow the process?

2) A process audit in order to identify opportunities and weaknesses

Process – any activity, or set of activities, that uses resources to transform inputs to outputs can be considered as a process

Process Effectiveness

how well do you perform against the eight Quality Assurance Principles?

The combination of the scores achieved from these two aspects of an audit creates a baseline of your management system and produces reports showing both your levels of compliance and process effectiveness.

Both audit approaches comply with published standards and requirements for auditing and both approaches provide output in measurable and quantifiable terms. This in turn provides a useful input to balanced scorecards and similar quality and other business process activities and techniques.

C-QES Limited has worked alongside Aegis-Verity and its staff for many years and has contributed to the development of the Assessment Scoring approach. The Assessment Scoring tool has a unique feature – it can be calibrated.

The use of the calibrated function ensures that:

1) the appropriate level of assessment / audit is applied

2) it identifies any errors and omissions on the part of the auditor

3) in agreement with the client, the correct balance is made between “safety critical” and “non safety critical” activities, operations, products and services.