EDITORIAL QSE
How QSEs can benefit from ISO standardisation
The adoption of standards not only enhances a company ' s internal structure, governance, and assurance but also opens doors to financial opportunities. Business owners can leverage these standards to secure funding grants from SEDA and participate in beneficial enterprise supplier programmes.
By Muhammad Ali, Managing Director, World Wide Industrial & Systems Engineers( WWISE)
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment( B-BBEE) will always be a topic of heated debate in South Africa. Depending on an individual’ s or organisation’ s political leanings, it is viewed as either positive or negative, with few grey areas in between. Although BEE compliance is not compulsory for private businesses, the government ' s transformation policy makes it nearly impossible for firms to obtain licences or bid for tenders without meeting the stipulated BEE requirements.
However, many private sector companies – particularly those classified as Qualifying Small Enterprises( QSEs) – fail to recognise that complying with transformation targets can be achieved through the effective implementation of standardisation policies and practices.
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