Telarc Q-Base quality management system

When your business lacks the resources to implement a quality management system using the full ISO 9001 standard, Telarc Q-Base provides an excellent alternative.

Developed by Telarc specifically for small and medium sized businesses, the Q-Base Code is based upon the ISO 9001 quality system standards. It enables you to implement basic management disciplines to assure quality of products and services.

Characteristically, businesses that have adopted the Q-Base Code:

Employ less than ten people
Rarely employ staff who are quality management professionals.
Are managed by the owner who has a strong hands-on role and spends after-hours on paperwork.
Work on low profit margins
Rarely have a documented system and procedures manual.

These are the eight clauses in the Q-Base Code: 2001, each helping to focus on the critical aspects of operating an effective management system:

Management of the quality system
Control of documents and records
Customers' needs
Purchasing

Training and work instructions
Inspecting and control of substandard work
Continual Improvements
Association, Industry or other criteria

Over 600 businesses in New Zealand have improved the way they operate and perform using the Q-Base management system. Refer to our Q-Base Case Studies and the information brochure Telarc Q-Base Certification.

For further information about Q-Base certification please phone 0800 004 004 or email us.

NEWS: Free white paper "The Q-Base Code: A tool for SME’s Quality Management: The New Zealand experience" This was presented at the APEC Standards and Conformance Conference in 2004.