Against a world-wide background of serious failures in procurement arrangements and "Corporate" indifference to the protection of human, social, cultural and natural environments a wide diversity of Management System Specifications and other Management capability assessment criteria have been developed to help organisations identify, address and resolve potential problem areas.

Compliance with these System-orientated "Standards" is entirely voluntary and businesses that have been independently assessed against them are entitled to display Standard-dedicated "Quality Assurance" symbols.

As many of these "Standards" deal with the unavoidably complex design, manufacture, performance, delivery and maintenance elements of "products" this Initiative has created a highly simplified MODEL "Standard" (SGS/24) which you can view and print out via the SGS/24 hyperlink located below.

For the avoidance of doubt, The SPRINGS International Regulatory Authority (SIRA) referred to in SGS/24 is a fictional organization and is used merely for illustrative purposes.

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