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Overview

Standards documents are an increasingly essential part of industrial operations and customer safety and satisfaction. For those involved in the supply of goods and services, in assuring the quality and safety of activities and operations, and in providing direction for future planning it is important that they be aware of standards provisions, use these provisions in their activities, and participate in the evolution of the standards that they use. In order to understand and appreciate the standards applied, it is essential to have a basic knowledge of the history of standards, an understanding of the standards development process, and an appreciation of the course of development that has been taken.

This course is intended to provide background information to show the foundation from which ISO quality standards were developed and to describe the early issues of ISO 9000 quality standards. The course is intended to be useful for those who:

  · Have recently become involved in using ISO 9000 documents and are interested in knowing how they came to be the way they are.
  · Are aware that they will soon become involved in the use of ISO 9000 documents and would like to have background information about their development.
  · Are interested in a review of the standards development process as it relates to quality standards.
  · This course describes ISO 9000 quality standards produced up to the early 1990's. A second course will deal with the 1994 and 2000 standards and will comment on development of the next revision.

The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

  · The history of standards development
  · The catalysts for standardization, including industrialization and international commerce
  · Early national and international standards committees
  · Categories of standards-type documents, including codes, criterions, standards, recommended practices, guides and specifications
  · ANSI qualification methods for standards developers
  · The scope of each of the early ISO 9000 Series documents
  · Development, documentation, auditing and certification of a quality program in accordance with ISO 9000:1987.

State Board Acceptance

This course can be used by professional engineers to fulfill PDH requirements mandated by state and provincial licensing boards. Decatur Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education in all states that pre-approve course providers. In all other states that mandate continuing education for engineers, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to determine the suitability of activities for PDH credit. The state boards typically accept online* courses that cover technical, managerial** or ethical content and which are relevant to the practice of engineering. The course must have a clear purpose or objective with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice. For questions about your mandatory PDH requirements, visit the website of your state licensing board.

*Online courses are accepted by all state licensing boards that mandate continuing education. Other than New York (which limits online courses to 18 PDH) and Iowa (which limits online courses to 6 PDH), there are no limits placed by other states on the number of hours that can be earned through online continuing education. Consult with your state licensing board if you have any questions about the acceptability of online courses.

**The New York State Board of Engineers does not accept general office management courses, but will accept project management courses that are offered by an approved provider and that are technical in nature and contribute to the engineer's professional practice.

Please Note: Continuing Education credits for this course are awarded as PDH (Professional Development Hour Credits).