Quality Policy does not include a commitment to comply with legal requirements

Sidney Vianna

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Legal requirements, etc. do NOT have to be in the Quality Policy. Period!
Badluck, yes, the wording "legal requirements" does not have to be explicit in the policy statement, but the commitment to comply with ALL REQUIREMENTS has to be there, and ALL REQUIREMENTS has to encompass legal requirements.

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malasuerte

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Badluck, yes, the wording "legal requirements" does not have to be explicit in the policy statement, but the commitment to comply with ALL REQUIREMENTS has to be there, and ALL REQUIREMENTS has to encompass legal requirements.

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Yup...badluck - You are WRONG! But keep trying! Guess everyone else is wrong too!

https://www.tsmc.com/sites/dcom/download/qualitypolicy/qualityPolicy_e.pdf

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https://castle.eiu.edu/~pingliu/tec...power_point/team_presentation/Caterpillar.ppt

Quality Policy - GM International

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Sidney Vianna

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The term (requirement) is ambiguous at best and pretty subjective, kinda like defining pornography or beauty

requirement • need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory

Note 1 to entry: “Generally implied” means that it is custom or common practice for the organization and interested parties that the need or expectation under consideration is implied.
Note 2 to entry: A specified requirement is one that is stated, for example in documented information.
Note 3 to entry: A qualifier can be used to denote a specific type of requirement, e.g. product requirement, quality management requirement, customer requirement, quality requirement.
Note 4 to entry: Requirements can be generated by different interested parties or by the organization itself.
Note 5 to entry: It can be necessary for achieving high customer satisfaction to fulfil an expectation of a customer even if it is neither stated nor generally implied or obligatory.
Note 6 to entry: This constitutes one of the common terms and core definitions for ISO management system standards given in Annex SL of the Consolidated ISO Supplement to the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. The original definition has been modified by adding Notes 3 to 5 to entry.
 

Ed Panek

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Lots of varying takes here. Interesting discussion. All make good points. I think all requirements or all applicable requirements would work since they are functionally the same.
 
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ChrisM

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Going back to the OP, you should not need to state that you are going to comply with the Law, it is implicit !

Can you imagine any company stating categorically that "we are not going to comply with the Law"?.....
"We're a great company, we have many satisfied repeat customers but our products are made in a way that does not comply with legislation".
I think they would get closed down fairly quickly !
 

Ed Panek

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Going back to the OP, you should not need to state that you are going to comply with the Law, it is implicit !

Can you imagine any company stating categorically that "we are not going to comply with the Law"?.....
"We're a great company, we have many satisfied repeat customers but our products are made in a way that does not comply with legislation".
I think they would get closed down fairly quickly !


Kinda like the infrastructure section doesn't need to mention "adequate oxygen" will be provided to employees ? :cool: To be fair I believe a company thats ISO 9001 could launder money or other illegal shareholder prospectus documents and I doubt even a robust 9001 auditor would find it. There are other financial regulations that cover that that would likely find this outside the 9001 scope.
 
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Tidge

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Applicable requirements is perfect. A legal requirement would be specific to your company if mentioned in a decided court case. If you have not had any legal cases decided against your company, legal requirements is too broad a statement. Government laws will not mention a specific company or product, but a court case might.

Not to mention, there is that whole "Bills of Attainder" thing going on...
 

Enghabashy

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*the risk assessment shall contain the objectives /targets which consistency with policy & legal /statuary/ regularity requirements , i.e : European directives /DOT, the mandatory of CE--NB # ---etc. & other product mandatory STDs should be part of organization regularity ; ---

*the manufacture / commercial license could be against national/legal regulation ;it's a requirement because it's part of management system , it should be under controls for continuing valid; the old or obsolete license as any sanction / legal deviation could close the organization activity “ i.e : OSHA Reg. , -the black list of importers , ---etc. “
*the policies could be short & simple to be easy for understanding by all stakeholders / interested parties ; the important high weight of the interested parties in any organization are the employees &the workers, there’s no needs for detailed obligatory requirements in published policy , the risk assessment determination could indicate the detailed requirements & the essential controls ;

* the policy may have 4 pages or more because it could be integrated in the company & covering many managements STDs ; the point is : when I publish the policy to one of interested party ‘ I can issue the relevant statements only , as example : I can summarize many social issues when I issue the policy to product notified body , otherwise I shall keep the detailed social issues when the policies are issued to international companies which is interest of social core subjects & other global & climate changes issues .
 
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