Cullen and ISO 9001: The “Gold Standard” of Quality
Our clients receive guaranteed quality. Cullen's unique status as the only general contractor in Wisconsin and one of only 10 in the U.S. to have earned the coveted ISO 9001 Quality Certification means we are the only area constructor to have procedures in place which ensure your project meets the most exacting specifications and standards. Time and again, the results we deliver are the quality results our clients expect delivered.
A Question of Quality
Ensuring quality is a top-goal, bottom-line priority for consumers everywhere. In some industries, precision quality products and workmanship are so essential, lives depend on them. The question is: How do you measure quality and how can you be sure you're getting it? ISO 9001: 2008 is a well-defined method which acts to assure the consumer that they are obtaining services from a company that can consistently deliver quality.
ISO 9001 Rating System
ISO 9001:2008 is a set of international standards establishing quality management and quality assurance systems in organizations. The third-party certification of such standards authenticates a company’s adherence to a well-identified, well-defined, well-documented set of quality procedures which facilitate the delivery of customer-driven goods and services.
The Eight Quality Management Principles
The Eight Quality Management Principles, serving as the basis upon which the ISO 9001 set of standards is built, forces a thorough examination of the way a company takes its services/goods to market. These principles consist of a company’s:
Customer Focus
- Leadership
- Expertise
- Process approach to delivery
- System approach to management
- Continual Improvement
- Factual approach to decision-making and...
- Mutually beneficial supplier relationships.
The Rigors of ISO 9001 Examination and Approval
What does it take to receive the ISO 9001 rating?
- A strict review, evaluation, and approval of business practices and delivery processes, including quality system regulations, management and staff responsibilities and accountability, contract review, communication and feedback protocols; design control, documentation, data control, purchasing and logistics;
- Compliance with Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards that are comprehensive, detailed, and exacting;
- Companies pursuing certification must be able to document how they operate and maintain a quality system throughout their product/service delivery process, ensuring that processes will meet strict specifications and set standards;
- In order to become ISO registered, a company is audited by an independent third-party organization for three years to make certain the company complies with the elements of the standards; and
- In coordination with the third-party surveillance audits, the company must perform internal audits through a company audit team comprised of employees from all facets of the organization.
Delivering Client Benefits
What does the ISO 9001: 2008 rating mean for clients? Well, standardized procedures pave the way for cost efficiencies and competitively priced operations. However, the primary purpose of the ISO 9000 series of standards is to assure the consumer that the company in question has documented and maintained a quality system which ensures the end result.
ISO 9001 certification is impossible unless a company’s processes conform to specified international standards, by which a company and its employees focus their attention on quality, correcting mistakes, and preventing error-recurrence. For you, our client, this means we define quality as the satisfactory fulfillment of your project requirements … by third-party standards as well as professional pride.