A fond memory from when BS5750 was introduced to my employer.
We had a training session from a "consultant" who made the point that B5750 had NOTHING to do with quality, but everything to do with reproducibility. He made this point by showing a film clip, featuring, I think, John Cleese.
The actor was sitting at his desk. The phone ring and the actor started a timer. After 30 second he picked up the phone and aid "Fu** Off, then put the phone down. The Consultant said that BS 5750 was all about procedure and if that response was in your Quality Manual you would be audited on following the procedure, as you went out of business....
Roll on 15 years or so to ISO 17025...all about a journey of "Continuous Improvement" with annual audits by a 3rd party.
For my sins I was part of a team that wrote ISO 17034... describing the process for the production of Certified Reference Materials, essential for validating the competence of an ISO 17025 Accredited Testing facility.
ISO 17025 will ensure that you go out of business because of the cost of Compliance....not because your procedures are rubbish.
All the standards require the application of experience and common sense if they are to be of value to an enterprise.
Blind adherence to process will kill your business as well as B 5750.....
