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Roderick A Munro

Roderick A Munro

Roderick A Munro, ASQ Fellow, CMQ/OE, CQE, CQA; Fellow CQI; IRCA QMS Lead Auditor, and business improvement coach – Integrated Management Systems: ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, at RAM Q Universe Inc. Find him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/roderickamunro or visit www.ramquniverse.com.

Munro is the 2006 Quality Professional of the Year

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Mature businessman using laptop in a factory.
Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

Internal Auditor OSHA 101 Training

Each of these items can and will lead to ISO 45001 findings from your registrar.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
April 27, 2025

So, what should your internal auditors be aware of and watch out for? Find the most common issues noted during the years of IMS audits conducted at my clients. Each of these items can and will lead to ISO 45001 findings from your registrar as well.


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Engineer Monitoring and Analyzing Conditions at a Modern Electronics Factory with Automated Robot Hands Working with the Help of Artificial Intelligence Software.
Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

Upgrading Your ISO Internal Audit Process

The internal team should be so robust that they make it very hard for the external auditor to find much.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
November 4, 2024

The ongoing challenge for many companies is how to upgrade or integrate internal audit knowledge/competence and maybe cross train auditors for all the auditing schemes that your company is currently registered to or may be planning on expanding.


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Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

Greenhouse Gases Related to ISO 9001 Amendment 1 Clause 4.2 – and other Management System Standards (MSS)

With a note added on climate change, the potential flood gates have now been opened to any number of new customer requirements.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
October 2, 2024

How is the ISO involved with Greenhouse Gasses (GHG)? Over the past 20 years or so, ISO has released a number of standards around GHG.


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Management

ISO Climate Change: The Ongoing Story

One way to reframe this seemingly new push into climate change is to simply consider that your organization has been hunting for methods for years to improve operations.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
April 23, 2024

The ISO Amendment was dropped in February 2024, surprising many. However, ISO had been working on this for years. For instance, ISO 14090:2019 Adaptation to Climate Change - Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines includes definitions related to the topic.


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Quality Headline

ISO now REQUIRES management to consider “climate change’ in your MSS

Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
March 8, 2024

You are now required to consider “climate change” within your management system.


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Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

Training Auditors to Integrated MSS Requirements

There are a few things that could be useful in your internal training program.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
January 29, 2024

So how does a company encourage employees to perform and to seek to learn more about effective auditing? There are a few things that could be useful in your internal training program.


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Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

Using the ISO Management Systems as a Marketing Tool

Many organizations fail to realize the importance of customer perspectives on the use of standards.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
September 4, 2023

Many organizations fail to realize the importance of customer perspectives based on use of the ISO MSS series. How can your company utilize the ISO MSS to your best advantage?


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Standards 101 | Roderick A. Munro

CPR for Internal Auditors

Think of conformance/compliance; process approach; and risk-based thinking.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
July 26, 2023

CPR for internal auditors is an acronym designed to help internal auditors remember concepts for conducting better audits. The acronym represents conformance/compliance; process approach; and risk-based thinking.


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Quality 101

Learns from ISO 9001:2015

Having conducted well over 700 audits, I've noticed some patterns.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
March 29, 2023

Having conducted well over 700 audits, there are some patterns that have developed that are interesting to note.


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The Cost of Quality

Understanding How Management Involvement Impacts the Risk of Quality Cost

Here’s a hidden gem in the pursuit of quality.
Rod Munro
Roderick A Munro
November 8, 2019

As a full time auditor for the past six years for one of the large management system registrars, I start every interview, from production personnel to the CEO, with the question: “Given all of your job responsibilities at this company, what does the word ‘quality’ mean in your work?” 


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