CQI Diploma
U507 - Quality Related Legislation and Regulation
The CQI Diploma in Quality Management provides new and existing quality practitioners with the knowledge and skills to plan and manage an organisation's quality management function. The qualification does this by developing a comprehensive understanding of the role of quality and the quality function within the whole organisation.
Students who successfully complete the 9 Diploma Units and have the required work experience will be eligible to apply for the CQI full membership.
Potential job roles include: Quality Manager, Quality Assurance Manager,
Customer Service Manager, Operations Manager, Business Improvement
Manager, Business Systems Manager, Senior Quality Manager, Quality
Management Specialist/Consultant.
For information on how you can use these units in other CQI
qualifications, download the
CQI Qualifications and unit matrix.
THE PACKAGE
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The packages are stand alone private tuition packages which allows the delegate to work at their own pace through the preset training material.
The distance learning material is sent to you upon course registration. The packages include:
- Coursebook - containing tutorial notes and information
- Workbook - containing questions and answers
- Text Book - 'Quality Management - Quality Related Legislation & Regulations' - by Vorley & Bushell
- Tutorial support is provided by telephone, fax, e-mail or written correspondence as required. See QM&T Team
- Monthly Quality Newsletter with all the very latest QA news. Keeping you right up to date and informed on what is happening in the Quality Assurance field.
Unit 507 Syllabus:
Unit 507
Quality Related Legislation & Regulations
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Unit Aim: To ensure that the quality professional responsible for either quality assurance or supply chain management is fully aware of the legal implications both for themselves and their organisation. Also to be able to develop and install and workable plan to protect the organisation, its employees and themselves from the risks involved.
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
- Understand legislation and liability relevant to quality
- Understand how conformity assessment and quality management can reduce liability
CQI suggested assessment method: Assignment
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Indicative content
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Legal principles
• Legal definition of a defect in statute law and its relevance to the design, manufacture and distribution of goods and services
• Legal framework – UK, EU
• Legal process – UK, EU
• The principles of common and statute law
• The role of precedent and case law in the law of Tort
• Common law applied to quality. The common law relationship between buyer, seller and third parties
• Statutory law and its impact on the responsibilities of an organisation and quality professionals
Statutory requirements
• Sale of Goods legislation
• Consumer Protection legislation
• EU Directive on Product Liability
Product conformity testing
• BSI Kitemarking and CE marking to assure conformity
Management of Legal risks
• Methods of risk reduction
• Methods of dealing with the risk of non compliance including Insurance, self Insurance, risk avoidance
• Dealing with failure to comply – Product recall processes |
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