Hey – Hope you’re having a great weekend and resting up for whatever it is that fills your rice bowl! Wait. Isn’t that rice? Okay, resting for whatever it is that you do that lets you buy rice then. Rice money!

Work-wise, for me, it was a fairly full week with one Certification audit (they were recommended for Certification without any nonconformities – not too shabby on their part) and a Surveillance audit for some folks who always show steady improvement; long time in the game.

Both were local audits, if you consider within two hours of driving “local” –  for me, anything under four hours, one-way, is fine.

Here’s  a quick recap of the posts from last week:

• On Monday, we had an update on the release schedule for ISO 14001. Bottom line: January of 2015.
• Tuesday, the first installment of “Toolsday” taught us about the 5 Whys.  Yes, it means asking “Why” five times, but more importantly – asking the right people and focusing on the investigation. An easy question isn’t the same as an easy answer. And, as an aside – feel free to replace “Why” with “How” – Sakichi Toyoda probably did.
• And Friday – some travel related images, just for the fun of it, as well as information about the Occupational Health and Safety Standard, OHSAS. It is to be replaced as a result of the newly formed ISO/PC 283.

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Thanks for playing along – leave a comment if you need something covered.

Oh, and go forth and calibrate thyself – tomorrow; take the day off from calibrating today.

Sal