Integrated Performance Assurance

If you're conforming to such international standards as ISO 9000 and ISO 1400 or various domestic regulations, Integrated Performance Assurance shows you how to integrate your organization's quality assurance, environmental compliance, and health and safety protection programs into a single risk management tool. This combined management system will enhance and improve cost-effectiveness and reliability.

Written in a clear, concise, easy-to use format, the book provides a step-by-step model that will guide you through a successful application of the Integrated Performance Assurance (IPA) process. In addition, the authors lend their insights and offer solutions to implementing IPA in your organization.

This guide to implementing IPA is highly recommended to management system professionals, upper-level executives and line managers concerned with the effective, cost conscious implementation of management systems required by international standards, regulation, and customer expectations.

Special Features case studies of the author's company, CH2M Hill (provider of planning, engineering design, and other operations and construction management services) and other organizations are presented to illustrate concepts, rationale, and implementing guidelines for the IPA approach to management systems.

David A. Waite is vice president of integrated performance assurance compliance and technology programs for CH2M HILL's Federal Group, Ltd. (FGL). He has 28 years of experience in the areas of health physics, environmental radioactivity, nuclear mixed waste management, risk assessment, and program management.

William T. Heartz, is director of quality assurance for CH2M HILL Hanford, Inc. He has 28 years combined education and experience in geotechnical engineering, quality assurance, and project and line management.

W. David McCormack, is the director of integrated performance assurance for CH2M HILL's FGL. He has 20 years of comprehensive technical and management experience in environmental, occupational, and operational safety. Previous to his work at CH2M HILL, he managed Foster Wheeler Environmental's environmental safety and health department.