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"They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good."T.S. Eliot
Choruses from "The Rock" (1934) ABOUT THIS BLOG
ISO accreditation claims to make systems good. In fact, it only makes them inspectable. It is another imposition of misguided management that has made working life inefficient and stressful. It treats professionals like schoolchildren on daily report. It is like living out someone else's personality disorder. The EU endorses and, in some cases, enforces it.
Accreditation involves an inspection body in the international "quality" cartel telling employees elsewhere exactly how to do their jobs - the accreditor's own one-size-fits-all "management system". Accreditors have twisted their victims' jobs into collecting exhaustive records for inspectors to quibble about. They've renamed bureaucracy "quality." And increased costs by maybe a third.
Quality is the magic word that is used to close down any debate of the issue. Despite accreditation having nothing to do with quality as any customer would define it. John Seddon has exposed the mil-spec folly of ISO 9000. But ISO management standards for laboratory services are ISO 9000 on steroids.
Professionals submit thoughtlessly to a creeping and flawed argument from the authority that the ISO's enforcer, UKAS, has assumed. The argument is, that because of its protected role in the narrow field of measurement and its use of inspectors, UKAS has a legitimate and verified ability to assure quality by inspection.
A few people are beginning to recognise the expense, waste, and failure-to-deliver of this pseudo-science. That record-keeping is not quality. They are realising the difference between product specifications and sinister standards for behavioural control. The importance of value is being rediscovered. The time has come to rip away the cloak of dreariness that has disguised this parasitic system for so long. Many people working under this regime are waiting to have their instinctive suspicions about it confirmed.
This blog investigates the background and effects of the accreditation cult which has been neither properly tested nor proven. Its aim is to prompt readers to expose the results of the error in their own fields of professional expertise. They will see that professional revalidation, Continuing Professional Development and recording-training-as-a-proxy-for-measuring-productivity spring from a similar mindset - the presumption that professional incompetence is normal and that collecting records can correct it.
Will you read on from the oldest posts at the bottom of this blog or continue to suffer the cartel's expansion?
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- A companion to ‘A Practical Guide to Accreditation in Laboratory Medicine’ Links to overview PDFs of David Burnett’s authorative book on ISO 15189 and CPA
- American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) Americans are falling for it too
- BIS – Reducing Regulation Reduced BIS advising on the Reducing Regulation policy while promoting pseudo-regulation by accreditation
- British Measurement and Testing Association BMTA – promoting measurement and testing – speaking with one voice to Government, UKAS and the European Laboratory Community
- British Standards Institute The primary tumour
- Clinical Pathology Accreditation CPA – crippling pathology with bureaucracy
- Department of Business Innovation & Skills Sales and enforcement. Wonders how to cut red tape
- EA-4/16 EA Guidelines on the expression of uncertainty in quantitative testing The cartel harmonises (some) uncertainty
- EU antitrust Antitrust: Commission action against cartels – Q&A
- Eurolab Accreditation hub for 2000 laboratories
- European Accreditation guidebook EA’s guidebook – a useful resource for investigators
- European Co-operation for Accreditation Making the problem European
- European Committee for Standardization (CEN) European Standards come from here
- International Accreditation Forum Multilateral Recognition Arrangement protects territories of cartel members
- International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Coordinating the cartel
- International Standards Organisation ISO
- ISO 15189 – Medical Laboratories Unofficial copy of ISO 15189
- ISO 15189:2003 – A practical tool for the management of quality in the medical laboratory Paper examining ISO requirements
- Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM) Another European committee
- Lab Compliance ISO 17025 tutorial for testing & calibration labs
- Laboratory of the Government Chemist Once led; now led by UKAS
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency An executive agency of the Department of Health
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Now worrying about climate change rather than Soviets
- Royal Statistical Society Certifies practitioners for ISO-lean
- Soil Association Certification Ltd Grown without unnatural additives…except accreditation
- The Vienna Agreement Agreement on technical co-operation between ISO and CEN
- UKAS Update The UKAS newsletter archive. Who will guard the guardians?
- UKAS' links Links from UKAS to other cartel members, supporters and victims
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service UKAS
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- For the love of learning Assessment is not a spreadsheet – it’s a conversation
- John Taylor Gatto Challenging the myths of modern schooling
- The Royal College of Pathologists A big prize being stalked by the cartel
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- Bully Online Extensive anti-bullying resources
- Chalchas Watching shared services fail
- Death to ISO 9000 – an economic disease John Seddon’s essay
- Diary of an ADI Driven out by bad management – now happy!
- Digital Radio Tech The DAB radio consortium acts similarly to the accreditation cartel
- Dilbert Dilbert by Scott Adams
- Economists' secret technique Any hope of accreditation here?
- Elsmar Cove Forum Debating the lack of value added by ISO 9001
- Freedom From Command and Control Loves her job – imagine that!
- Inspguilfoyle – Crime in Progress How the targets and audits explosion has damaged policing
- Knittingfog Thinking about your meaningless job
- Los 10 pecados de la ISO 9000 – People And Systems – Jose Maria Raventos's systems management blog “Las organizaciones deben volver a ser humanas, basarse en el valor de las personas.”
- Oxebridge Quality Resources International Chris Paris’ blog reveals ISO corruption
- Squire to the Giants Stimulating thoughts on management
- Systems Thinking Systems Thinking for service organisations
- Systems Thinking For Girls Claims to be feminist but would do good for either sex that listened
- The Systems Thinking Review The Systems Thinking Review – bad public sector systems corrected
- The Witch Doctor A witch observes the NHS evolving to a very unfit state
- Thinkpurpose Effectiveness trumps efficiency every-time: systems thinking, Vanguard method & Deming
- Vanguard In Health blog What is the purpose for patients? Medicine for NHS managers
- Why it is Important that Software Projects Fail An essay on computer productivity
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- Abandon Culture Advertisers selling you ideas disguised as products
- Australian Competition & Consumer Commission – A Guide for Consumers on Cartel Conduct The quality cartel deserves a category of its own
- B. K. Eakman How to counter group manipulation tactics
- Better Regulation Executive Don’t hold your breath
- Biased BBC Fun everyday!
- Big Brother Watch To re-establish the balance of power between the state and individuals
- Britain's Livelihood Crisis TUC assessment of declining living standards
- British Weight and Measures Association Would saving us from SI units have save us from accreditation?
- Bureaucracy Ludwig von Mises book – free PDF
- C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism David J. Theroux essay
- Cartels: Economists and Central Bankers Gary North
- Collapse of the academic cartel Gary North
- Common Purpose Exposed
- Dominic Cummings' blog Analysing political and management problems intelligently
- EU Referendum Richard North’s EU Referendum blog
- Guido Fawkes Political hypocrisies exposed
- I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read Regulators hate this essay!
- Keiser Report archive Bankster secrets revealed
- Rowan Bosworth-Davies' financial crime blog Former Met detective reveals City financial crime
- Russia Today It’s not the BBC. On the box but outside the box
- Snouts in the Trough How we’ve all been betrayed by politicians, bureaucrats and bankers
- St David's Street Politics, Philosophy & Economics @ jamesfalk.com
- Stop Common Purpose
- Taxpayers' Alliance free tax revelation app Tax Buster smartphone app
- TEAM The European Alliance of EU-Critical Movements
- The Century Of The Self Adam Curtis’ documentary on how lies are sold
- The MLM Syndrome: Dr. Doe's Investigation into MLM CONditioning Multi-Level Marketing – a less boring relation to accreditation but arguably worse.
- The Skeptical Doctor “The greatest essayist of his age”
- The Stanford Prison Experiment What happens when decent people have a bad system imposed on them
- The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom Adam Curtis’ documentary series
- Thought Maybe – action against subservience and acquiescence Adam Curtis videos
- UK Debt Bombshell Watch the debt clock tick up
Science & Medicine Links
- Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., USA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) criticism
- British Weight and Measures Association Would saving us from SI units have save us from accreditation?
- Carlo Favaretti Systems thinking in Italian medicine
- ClinLabNavigator US clinical lab test interpretation. Westgard rules not ISO
- David Healy's Data Based Medicine Pharma industry sharing clothes with the Emperor and ISO cartel
- DC's Improbable Science MHRA pseudo-regulating quackery
- European Sceptics EU: unproven quack medicines OK – as with unproven accreditation
- Harm from Hormones Dr Ellen Grant’s research career assessing harm from hormones
- Healthy Skepticism Helping to reduce harm from misleading health information
- James Delingpole See what happens when scientific groupthink is exposed
- James Westgard – The Westgard Rules Laboratory QC expertise
- JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax Tackling tribal groupthink
- Josh science cartoons Science UKAS hasn’t taken the fun out of!
- Junk Science Exposing faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special interests and hidden agenda
- Lab Tests Online An official pathology view on quality including accreditation. Better on tests
- Medical Consumerism The interaction between medicine and business
- Medlab-EQAS blog Medical lab and EQA news
- No Free Lunch Medicine not marketing. Yet to discover the marketing of accreditation
- Pharmagossip Like accreditation, some drugs won’t work either
- Science Based Medicine Exposing the unscientific in medicine
- Squire to the Giants Stimulating thoughts on management
- The Vanguard Method in Wellbeing The Vanguard Method in Health and Care. Profound Insights; Profound Results
- Understanding Uncertainty Misunderstand this and you could fall victim to accreditationism
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ClustrMaps
“他们不断地试图逃跑 从外部和内部的黑暗 如此完美，没有人会需要好系统在做梦。“ T.S.艾略特 合唱从“石破天惊”（1934年）
关于这个部落格（谷歌翻译） ISO认证要求，使系统的良好。事实上，它不仅使他们视察。这是另一种误导的征收管理，取得了工作生活的效率低下和压力。对待像小学生每日报告的专业人士。它像活出别人的人格障碍。欧盟赞同在某些情况下，执行它。 评审涉及的检验机构，在国际“质”的其他地方正好告诉员工如何做好本职工作的卡特尔 - accreditor自己的一个尺寸适合所有“管理系统”。检验机构已扭成受害者的工作，收集详尽的记录，检查员吹毛求疵。他们已经更名为官僚“的质量。”也许三分之一的成本增加。 质量是神奇的词语，用来关闭任何问题的争论。尽管与质量无关，做任何客户定义的认可。约翰Seddon暴露了ISO 9000的军事规格的愚蠢。但是，实验室服务的ISO管理标准是ISO 9000的类固醇。 专业人员提交不假思索地匍匐和从ISO的执行机构，英国UKAS，假定管理局有缺陷的参数。这个论点是，英国UKAS，因为它在测量和督察使用的狭窄领域的保护作用，有一个合法的和验证的能力，以保证检查质量。 几人都开始认识到费用，浪费和失败到提供这种伪科学。记录保存没有质量。他们是实现产品的规范和行为控制的险恶标准之间的差异。价值的重要性正在被重新发现。 RIP走的凄凉的外衣，伪装了这么久的这种寄生系统的时机已经到来。这一制度下工作的很多人都在等待有关于它证实他们本能的怀疑。 这个博客调查的背景和认可邪教组织，一直没有适当的测试，也不证明效果。其目的是提示读者揭露了在各自领域的专业知识中的错误的结果。他们会看到，专业的重新验证，持续专业发展及录音培训作为一个代理，测量生产率从一个类似的心态弹簧 - 专业的无能是正常的，收集记录，能正确的推定。 你会读，从最早的帖子在本博客的底部或继续遭受卡特尔的扩张？MapLoco
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The 10 sins of ISO 9000
Jose Maria Raventos’ blog describing The 10 sins of ISO 9000 can be enjoyed by Spanish speakers. Others will have to rely on Google Translate (automatic in Google Chrome, SRWare Iron and Comodo Dragon browsers.) Don’t forget the experiences of readers described in the comments.
Posted in Bureaucracy, Cartel, Management, Practical problems
Tagged Comodo Dragon, Google Chrome, Google Translate, ISO 9000, Jose Maria Raventos, management, SRWare Iron
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400 days of anarchy…did you notice?
Pravda tells us that Belgium has survived perfectly well for over 400 days without a government. This sets a world record for anarchy. Let’s hope somebody is still inspecting their labs to ensure they meet the required standards of record-keeping the … Continue reading
Posted in Bureaucracy, Cartel, Economics, History, Politics
Tagged anarchy, Belgium, government
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ISO 9000: Help or Hoax?
Patrick O’Connor’s essay ISO 9000: Help or Hoax? was published in Quality World in 1991 and collected into his book In My Humble Opinion, available for free download here. Few listened to the advice of this experienced reliability engineer. The ISO beast … Continue reading
Posted in Bureaucracy, Cartel, History, Laboratory medicine, Management, Practical problems, Science
Tagged engineering, hoax, ISO 15189, ISO 17025, ISO 9000, navy, Patrick DT O'Connor, RAF
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Still benchmarking?
Is your laboratory still benchmarking or has the money run out for visiting other labs? Take heart; it only enshrines mediocrity. Yes! You’d be better looking at how to improve your own service rather than looking at other other people’s. … Continue reading
Posted in Bureaucracy, Economics, Laboratory medicine, Medicine, NHS, Science
Tagged benchmarking, John Seddon, NHS laboratory
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The human face of the accreditation disease
Whilst outside the laboratory focus of the ISOwatch blog, the comment below is highlighted because it eloquently shows the frustration and damage to workers’ lives caused by ISO-inspired accreditation scams. The comments show how incomprehensively alien the accreditation philosophy is to engineers. The … Continue reading
Posted in Bureaucracy, Cartel, Computing, Management, Psychology, Questions
Tagged Automotivespice, automotivespice.com, burnout, Fiat, Health and Safety Executive, Jeremy Clarkson, John Seddon, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD), psychiatrist, stress, Top Gear, transmissible mental illness
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The Deficiencies of ISO 17025 video
ISO/UKAS accreditation hasn’t saved the UK Forensic Science Service, but given the extent of bad forensic practices, this Pennsylvania attorney sees ISO 17025 as useful and inevitable. However, he warns about one of its deficiencies. Confidently knowing the figures measured does not help if … Continue reading
“Conceptualizing the bureaucratic quality and capacity of the EU”
I read 35 pages to learn this? “The results suggest there is a great deal of interaction between public and private elites in EU policymaking.” You don’t say? A better read:
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