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In-depth guides to the standards and the compliance work behind them.

  • What an EDF grant actually obliges you to prove

    Most writing about the European Defence Fund covers the opportunity: the budget, the topics, the deadline. Far less covers the obligations - who may be a beneficiary, what a consortium has to demonstrate, and the security evidence a grant agreement requires before it is signed.

    8 min read

  • iso-9001

    How to run an internal audit that finds something

    A programme that returns a clean sheet every cycle is not evidence of a healthy system. What clause 9.2 actually requires, how to plan an audit that tests practice rather than paperwork, and how to write a finding somebody can act on.

    4 min read

  • iso-9001

    ISO 9001 requirements: what the standard actually asks for

    The standard is 30 pages and most of the work is deciding what applies to you. Here is the mandatory documented information, clause by clause, and the four things the 2015 revision removed that people still build.

    4 min read

  • Training records that prove competence

    Attendance sheets prove training happened, but auditors want proof people can apply what they learned. See what a defensible competence record needs and how to build one before you deliver the training.

    4 min read