COP 27 – EXPECTED BETTER FOR SUSTAINABLE MOTHER EARTH

In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as a framework for international cooperation to combat climate change by limiting average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and coping with impacts that were, by then, inevitable.

By 1995, countries launched negotiations to strengthen the global response to climate change, and, two years later, adopted the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol legally binds developed country Parties to emission reduction targets. The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. The second commitment period began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020.

There are now 197 Parties to the Convention and 192 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established on 21 March 1994. As on today total 198 countries gave their consent for the Convention, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These 198 countries from the all over the universe are called Parties to the Convention.

The primary purpose, aim and objective of the UNFCCC are preventing the “dangerous” human interference such as greenhouse gas emissions and to protect the earth from the threat of climate change.

Conference of Parties (COP)

The Conference of Parties (COP) is the apex decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). COP members have been meeting every year since the year 1995.

The first conference (COP1) was held in 1995 in Berlin

COP27

This year twenty-seventh conference (COP27) is being held at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt 06 Nov 2022 – 18 Nov 2022.

THE LOGO of COP 27

The logo of COP 27 comprises of the Sun, the Sun of Aten, the Horizon and the Globe. The meaning of each terms is as below,

The Sun:

The sun, is one of the most significant items Africa is known of, it’s believed to some people that its rising and setting is considered a metaphor to the cycle of life, from birth to death to re-birth. The light the sun brings together with its warmth are essential for life on Earth.

The Sun of Aten:

It is Aten represented in the sun with its rays that ends with human hands. The hands symbolize giving life and prosperity to the people and all the welfare that we are blessed with. Also the it represents the useful sun rays that earth can benefit from.

The Horizon:

The horizon represents the border line between the useful and harmless rays of the sun, what we must receive from the sun that can benefit of Earth and people, and what we must avoid.

The Globe:

The globe incorporated in the logo represents how we should contain earth and keep it preserved, balanced and safe. It also represents Africa, the continent hosting COP27 in 2022.

LANDMARK AGREEMENT

In the COP 21 which was held in Paris from 30 November to 12 December 2015, 196 parties adopted the “Paris Agreement,” a landmark agreement and a commitment to keep global warming below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and preferably limit warming to 1.5°C and is entered into force 4 November 2016.

To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century.

EXPECTATION

Not only the temperature that is keep global warming below 2 dec centi but there shall be focus on the water management, reducing the use of fossil fuel and carbon offset scheme implementation, focus mainly on carbon. All this has to be again and again required to push from each local event to contribute at global level in reducing the carbon and water foot print.

WHAT IS AUDIT, AUDITOR AND MANAGING AN AUDIT ?

During implementation of ISO, QMS, EnMS, EMS and other management systems the terms we encounter most are Audit, Internal Audit, External Audit and Internal/External Auditors. With these terms we can add more as product audit, process audit etc.

This article explains all these terms which are useful in day to day life after implementation of the system.

1. Definition of audit as per ISO 19011:2018

“Systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining objective evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled”.

2. Definition of Auditor

Person who conducts audit.

3. Definition of Auditee

A person(s) of the organization or organization itself, who is going through the process of audit by auditor or face the audit.

4. Types of Audit: Process audit, Product Audit, System Audit

• Process audit:

Process audits are conducted to evaluate the process, where there is some kind of input and result in output against the stipulated procedure, standards and instruction. Also it is important to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the process against planned.

• Product Audit:

The product audit is carried out for the product or the services. The final product which is ready for dispatch to customer is audited against specification, customer requirement, Technical Delivery Condition to evaluate product confirms the stipulated requirements.

• System Audit:

System audit means audit conducted for management systems, for evaluation of objected evidence through use of documented procedure, data, and objective of management.

The examples are Management system audit, Energy Management system, Environmental Management system.

5. Types of Audit: First Party Audit, Second Party Audit, Third Party Audit

• First Party Audit:

The audit is performed by the organization itself to check the effectiveness of the management system .These audits are conducted independently by employees of the organization.

• Second Party Audit:

The second party audits are conducted by the customer at supplier premises .This audit is conducted against the purchase order terms, contract of supply etc.

• Third Party Audit:

The third party audit is conducted by the independent body. Such bodies are independent of supplier and customer relations. The third party audit conducts for inspection of material certification.

6. Follow-up audit:

During Process audit, Product Audit, System Audit, there are findings and nonconformity observed by the auditor and the same could not be closed on the spot after completion of audit, where correction and corrective action are required. So, to verify the correction and corrective action on the finding and nonconformity follow-up audit are conducted.

7. Managing an audit:

For managing an audit, there is standard, ISO 19011:2018 – Guideline for Auditing Management System to follow.

The process flow of audit is based on Plan – Do – Check– Act (PDCA) Cycle.

The clause wise details as below:

1. Establishing audit programme objective(5.2)
2. Determining and evaluating audit programme risk and opportunity(5.3)
3. Establishing audit programme(5.4)
4. Implementing audit programme(5.5)
5. Monitoring audit programme(5.6)
6. Reviewing and improving audit programme(5.7)
7. Initiating audit(6.2)
8. Preparing audit activity (6.3)
9. Conducting audit activities(6.4)
10. Preparing and distributing audit report(6.5)
11. Completing audit(6.6)
12. Conducting audit follow-up (6.7)

It is to be noted that completing audit (6.6) says

“The audit is completed, when all planned audit activities have been carried out, or as otherwise agreed with the audit client”.

Also, lessons learnt from audit can identify risk and opportunity for the audit program and for the auditee and same shall be noted for improvement of quality management system.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REVISION AND EDITION OF DOCUMENT

Most of the time, when we are dealing with Quality Management System, Energy Management System, Environmental Management System, Laboratory Management System documents, there is a confusion at the time when there are changes in the document are required and stuck at a point whether document is revised or /and edited and to be given new revision no or edition no.

So what is revision and edition of document?

REVISION

Revision of document is carried out when there is change in the meaning or we want to clarify on the point in detail as compare to what we previously mentioned.

EDITION

Change in edition of document is carried out when there is no change in details mentioned in the procedure, but required to correct the mistake(s) happened during writing of the procedure.

These mistakes can be categorized as grammatical mistake and / or spelling mistake.

For understanding when there is revision and when there is edition of document, let’s take an example of non-conformity;

Non-conformity has been given by the auditor after auditing one of the department / section of the organization when auditing the quality management or other management system.

Non-conformity:

Temperature of the process not documented in proper identified format.

Non-conformity closing:

In this case to close non-conformity, first proper format has to develop with unique identification number for documenting the process temperature and revise the procedure by adding the reference of newly develop format and add details about use and application of developed format.

Here, we are clarifying in procedure about reference of developed format and its use, so procedure will be revised with next revision no and there will not be any change in edition no.

Case of editing:

Whereas, during clarifying the details about use of developed format and  its application, it is found that there are some spelling mistake and that required the correction and same is corrected, then procedure will be updated with next edition no.

If both above cases are implemented at same time, then procedure will be updated with next edition no and revision no both.

WAYS AND MEANS TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT SAFETY

Workers and employees are working in industries and organizations to live their life in a good way and are doing this on a continuous basis to earn the money for their family and to support the organization.

In this act Workers and employees spend most of their life time in the industries and organization and this is the area where they must have a safe atmosphere to work.

Safety at the workplace is most important for the employee and employer and fact is, both want to work in a safe environment.

Safe work culture in any industry and organization helps to improve the productivity and quality of product, without loss of time that is in an efficient and in effective way.

It is the fact that work- related injuries, illness and death affect once life and his family who is dependent on him and it pays the tremendous loss not only to industries but also to the society.

I feel very sad about any loss of human life which is always compared to financial but could not be estimated as related to love and affection.

The loss because of illness, injury and death are the loss of income of the family, Well-being of the family, sometimes loss of job, health and medical issues.

On the other hand this loss result in production loss, training of employees, hiring of new employee   

To overcome these losses because of illness, injury there shall be various initiatives are to be taken in the industries and organizations such as,

1.       Training on safety

2.       Safety audits

3.       Safety promotion activities

4.       Use of promotional material to display/ distribution for awareness on safety

5.       Different ways to celebrate/observe various days for awareness about safety

6.       Safety awareness

1. Training on safety

Before going for any training there should be proper assessment to be carried out for applicability and necessity of the particular training in the organization. Training must be based on the condition in the organization like hazard, use of any dangerous chemical, use of tools and tackles etc.

Some of the examples training in general useful in the industries are,

1. Training on pressure vessel.
2. Training on use of tools and tackles
3. Training on testing and examination of lifting tools and lifting machinery
4. Training on electrical safety
5. Training on chemical safety
6. Training on Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment(HIRA)
7. Training on emergency preparedness
8. Training on prevention of fire
9. Training on various types of fire extinguisher
10. Training on use of basic first aid
11. Training on ergonomics
12. Training on various gas cylinders and its use
13. Training on Machine operations
14. Training on 5S
15. Training on Environment Protection

2. SAFETY AUDITS

As per the requirement and type of industries safety audits are to be performed to assess the gap in the system and these audits help to overcome the gaps.

1. Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment(HIRA)
2. Environmental Health and safety audit(EHS)
3. Electrical safety audits
4. Chemical safety audits
5. Office safety audits
6. Audit of particular system
7. Construction safety audit
8. Working on height

3. Safety promotion activities

To promote safety in the industries and in the organization, promotion of safety is must and best part to promote safety by involving the employee and employer and this can be possible by celebrating the particular safety day.

In India National Safety Council (NCS) initiate the awareness campaign and these are,

1. National Safety Day/Week/Month:

National Safety day has been initiated to celebrate the foundation day of National Safety council every year on 4^th March since 1972.

National Safety Council was set up by the ministry of Labour, Government of India on 4^th March 1966, mainly to generate, develop and sustain a voluntary movement on Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) at the national level. The NSC is registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 and the Bombay Public Act 1950.

The first safety day was celebrated on 4th march 1972 and this year India is observing 51^st National Safety Day.

This year 2022 we celebrate safety day with theme “Nurture young minds – develop a safety culture”.

2. World Environment Day

World Environment Day has been celebrated every year on 5Th June since 1974.Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and over 150 countries participating in this celebration each year. Each year different countries host the celebration of #WED. This year’s 2022 theme for World Environmental Day is #Only One Earth.

3. Fire Service Day/Week

Fire service day/Week is observed every year on 14^Th April. It is observed in memory of the tragic fire disaster that took place on 14th April 1944 at Bombay dock yard. The purpose is to bring awareness about prevention of fires at work places.

4. Chemical Disaster Prevention Day

Chemical Disaster Prevention Day is observed every year on 4th December. The aim is to create awareness about the disaster from use of chemicals, practice of safe process and manufacturing of chemicals, its transportation, storage and use of chemicals.

5. Road Safety Week

To prevent road accidents and injuries, Road Safety Week is observed every year during January on the guidelines of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, Government of India for creating awareness about road safety.

Above all, industries and organizations must organize the safety day every first day of the month. This must include the safety oath for all the employees, include recognition for good practices in the department, Zero incidents in the department etc.  

4. Use of promotional material to display/distribution for awareness on safety

To create the awareness about the safety, Health and Environment (ESH) various promotional material are use such as banners, posters, Badge etc related to Electrical safety, Fire Safety, Road safety, Gas Cylinder safety, Machine Operation Safety, Material Handling.

5. Different ways to celebrate/observe various days for awareness about safety

To bring awareness among the workers about the safety day, Fire Service Day/Week, Chemical Disaster Prevention Day, Road Safety Week and World Environmental Day following are some of the suggested activities which can be organized in the industries and organization. Such a programme helps to involve the employee and connect with the theme and brings awareness.

1. Drawing competition for employees and their family members
2. Rangoli competition
3. Essay competition
4. Debt competition
5. Slogan writing competition
6. Play on theme
7. Organized the workshop

Nowadays everyone is familiar with the various social media and handling the same, this platform must be used by us for the promotion and awareness. This can be done by simply sending the hashtag of the particular days. These hashtags are available on the respective website.

For upcoming World Environmental Day hash tag will be #WED2022, #WED22 and the theme #Only One Earth.

6. Safety awareness

In industries and organization there must be focused on the safety awareness on the main human body parts and special training on use of various PPEs to be given to each and every employee to protect these human parts.

1. Eye Protection/Safety
2. Hearing Protection
3. Head Protection
4. Hand Protection
5. Respiratory Protection/Safety

System development on environment and safety can be well address through implementation of ISO 14001:2015,Environmental Management Systems and ISO 45001:2018, Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for use.

With more and more focus on the awareness about the safety with motivation and involvement of employee and employer in the organization and also in society at large will greatly reduce the loss because of illness, injury and death at work place. 

Learn from Disaster and Prepare for a Safer Future

The caption of the article is the theme for this year’s National Safety Day/ week. This year we celebrate the 50^th National safety day / Week.

“आपदा से सीखें और सुरक्षित भविष्य की तैयारी करें

This has been initiated by National Safety Council, India

National Safety Council

National Safety Council was set up on 4^th March 1966 by the Ministry of labor, Government of India. The thought of setting up of National Safety Council is taken its birth in the President’s first conference on the Industrial Safety held in Delhi from 11^th to 13^th December 1965.

Celebration of National Safety Day/ Week

The celebration of National Safety Day/ Week started in1971 to mark the foundation day of National Safety Council, on 4^th March every year with a vision to spread the awareness about the SAFETY in all areas covering organization and industries from different sectors safety day is celebrated and from 4^th to 10 th March safety week celebrated.

The celebration aims at increase the awareness about the safety and reduction in overall accident in all sectors.

The awareness among the industrial workers is generated by taking the various initiatives such as Public functions, seminars on the safety and panel discussion mainly on the theme of safety.  Awareness also generated by distributing the safety badge, poem competition and displaying the banners.

The Theme and Disaster

Learn from Disaster and Prepare for a Safer Future

“आपदा से सीखें और सुरक्षित भविष्य की तैयारी करें

Brief note on two biggest disasters,

1. Kedarnath disaster

Kedarnathji is famous for the temple of lord shiv build in 8th century. The disaster happened in 2013 when there is huge rainfall on dated between 13^th to 17^th june. This resulted in the melting of the Chorabari glacier and the eruption of the Mandakini river and the flood affected the large part of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, India.

Historical records shows the area had been affected by similar natural disasters back in 1893, 1968 and in 1970 when the calamitous impact of the flood had resulted in the Chipko movement [1].

2. Glacier broke off at Joshimath,Uttarakhand, India

A glacier broke off at Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Sunday 7^th February 2021, leading to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga River and causing large-scale devastation in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas [2].

Above both the disaster gives us the take away and best example of learning a lesson for preparing a safe future.

QCFI and SAFETY

To spread the awareness about the safety, Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) propagates the concept of Lean Safety Circle (LSC) in the industries and organization. This has been initiated by Mr. D K Srivastava, Executive Director, QCFI and is taking pace form 2010 onward. This also helps to motivate the employee to make the case study on the safety under Lean Safety Circle (LSC) for all levels in the organization in the form of cross functional team.

The concept of LSC is based on the lean principle of three types of waste, Muda (Wasteful activity), Muri (Wasteful design to reduce strain) and Mura (Wasteful implementation, over burden)

 Here problem are selected which are, instant, given by the management and which are available in the problem bank. These problems are solved by using DMAIC methodology (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) in place of 12 step methodology of Quality Circle.

The benefits of Lean Safety Circle (LQC) are

• Develop the team work
• Develop problem solving skill
• Develop innovative thinking

This will give the opportunity to the employee to present their case study in their own organization, QCFI Chapter convention, and National convention too.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/research/here-is-what-happened-in-kedarnath-and-rest-of-uttarakhand-in-2013-5482050/

[2]   http://www.ptinews.com/news/12170562_Massive-flood-as-glacier-breaks-off-at-Joshimath–150-labourers-missing

ISO 9001:2015 Understanding Its Anatomy, Diagnosis and Inside Story

I am happy to inform that on the first day of Hindu Nav Varsh, Gudi Padwa dated 13^th April 2021, published my first book “ISO9001:2015 Understanding its Anatomy, Diagnosis and Inside Story” .

The book has been published by Zorba Books, Delhi.

I am confident that you all will extend a warm welcome to this book.

ABOUT BOOK

In this competitive world, quality and customer satisfaction play a vital role for any industry or organization. Customer satisfaction is the current trend and this book aims to achieve that.

This book is about the anatomy, diagnosis and inside story of ISO 9001:2015, hence it is appropriately titled. It seeks to dissect and separate each clause, sub clause and sub sub clause as though breaking down the human anatomy, before focusing on the diagnosis of each clause and, finally, moving on to tell the reader the inside story of ISO 9001:2015. The hops is that, it will be helpful for the industries, organizations, entrepreneurs, proprietors, auditors (internal and external) and consultants working in this area of ISO, as well as the people at large who want to gain in-depth knowledge about ISO 9001:2015.

The book is divided into six parts,

Part 1: The Historical Background of ISO

Part 2: General Concepts

Part 3: The Foundation of ISO 9001:2015

Part 4: Requirements of ISO 9001:2015

Part 5: Quality Manual Writing

Part 6: Other Prominent ISO Standards

Part 1: This enables the reader to understand the history of the ISO and how, with time, various changes and revisions have been made. This is done in the pursuit of continual improvement.

Part 2: This section helps the readers to understand concepts such as, the mandatory requirement of ISO 9001:2015, a road map to implement ISO 9001:2015, the Turtle Diagram and many other related concepts.

Part 3: This section is dedicated to the foundation of ISO 9001:2015 which is necessary to understand, before one can diagnose the standard. This part focuses on building in-depth knowledge about concepts like, high level structure, quality management principles,Process Approach, Risk-based Thinking, PDCA, documented information, etc.

Part 4: This is about the anatomy and diagnosis of each clause of international standard, the inside story of ISO 9001:2015, how to implement each clause and include them in the manual, what various clauses require one to do, some examples of questions asked by the auditor during audit and a list of documentary evidence required for that particular clause.

Part 5: This section deals with the writing and compilation of the quality manual for the implementation of the Quality Management System. It also includes a guide on how to start the manual and how to write about a particular clause of the standard, and provides a sequence of content in the quality manual.

Part 6: This section gives a brief idea about other popular ISO standards. The author is of the opinion that one should have at least a working knowledge of these specific standards, apart from ISO 9001:2015 which is useful when the organization wants to implement Integrated Management System (IMS) certification.

The main objective of this publication is to provide guidance to the readers in a simplified manner and to help them fully understand ISO 9001:2015. The book also provides details of how ISO 9001:2008 transitioned into ISO 9001:2015, both for the reader’s knowledge and for future reference.

When we trace the journey of ISO from 1987, one comes across evidence to show that an ISO certification brings various benefits to the industries and organizations and helps enhance the quality of the management system. ISO certification also helps to optimise the process at each stage of the supply chain management and achieve the ultimate goal of customer satisfaction.

This book has been written with an emphasis on what the subject matter requires.

This book will also help one to acquire a working knowledge of ISO 9001:2015, through its provision of a proper foundation that is both conceptual and factual.

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