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More and more organisations are asking for confirmation of quality standards to act as differentiators between potential suppliers.

Quality has always been a priority at Pet&r and though we have a comprehensive internal quality system, we decided to go for ISO 9001 Quality Standard to get official recognition for this system.

Being a small organisation this was quite a daunting task, especially after reading guidance from a number of providers and people who had been through the process themselves. However, after further research we found an organisation which worked on the same principles or practical simplicity as us in QMS.

In preparation for the assessment we put together all our policies and procedures, instigated additional monitoring measures and created a comprehensive document maintenance system. The initial assessment and GAP analysis took 6 hours and then QMS wrote a draft quality manual for our approval and that was it, we had ISO 9001 within 2 months.

We would like to thank all at QMS, especially Nick Parkes, for all their help and for making the whole experience easy, quick and painless.

Another success recently was Peter Hammond being accepted as a Fellow of the Institute of Training & Occupational Learning (ITOL).

lynne@petandr.co.uk

www.petandr.co.uk