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1. Southern African Society for Quality Professional body for the registration of quality, environmental, health and safety and SHEQ practitioners www.sasq.org.za
2. SASQ is the only Southern African professional organisation for the registration, grading and continual professional development of Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety and SHEQ practitioners.
3. Professional Development Let’s thinks about professional development. Would you go for medical treatment to a doctor who has qualified 50 years ago, and will perform an operation with a heated knife and sews you up with a needle and cotton? Think about it. Would a company employ an accountant who has qualified many years go with no professional upgrading. This type of accountant will be comfortable running a manual cash book, a manual ledger and manual journals, and with no upgrading will not be able to use an electronic system. Who will employ such an accountant today? The message is clear, all professionals will need upgrading of skills and normally these are provided by the various professional bodies. This is exactly what SASQ is to our members. It is a platform for the upgrading of skills and knowledge. Professional development refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage. There are a variety of approaches to professional development, including consultation, coaching, and communities of practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflective supervision and technical assistance. So quality, environmental, health, safety and SHEQ practitioners and professionals think carefully about your careers and upgrading through SASQ before you become “OUTDATED”.
4. Important You cannot be a professional if you are not a member of a professional body. You are a professional only if a professional body graduates you as one. Professionals protect their profession by been professional. Professionals support and involve themselves with their professional bodies.
5. SA Quality Structure GOVERNMENT SABS SANAS SAQA CHE AGENCIES PRIVATE AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES SETA SAQI SASQ SAATCA INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS SYSTEM AUDITORS
6. History Of SASQ The South African Society for Quality Control was established in 1976 by a group of quality professionals in Port Elizabeth, to increase the awareness and importance of quality as a strategic survival tool for the South African Industries. This society, evolved, by the advent of the ISO 9000 series for Quality Management Systems in 1987, to The South African Society for Quality (SASQ). SASQ was registered as a section 21 company in 1992 with the registration number 92/056622/08. It is now known as the Southern African Society for Quality with an extended scope incorporating Environmental, Health and Safety, and SHEQ practitioners.
7. Purpose of SASQ The Society is established to represent and promote the QUALITY professional and QUALITY professionalism, as well as to elevate QUALITY capability in Southern Africa, and specifically: To facilitate the exchange of opinions and views on QUALITY and to inform and promote knowledge of QUALITY to members and the public for the development and use of QUALITY. To obtain from members and other sources information relating to QUALITY, and to disseminate such information amongst the public and the Society by means of journals, circulars, publications, lectures, seminars, conferences or otherwise. To improve the technical and general knowledge and to elevate the professional status of persons engaged in QUALITY. Education and training to elevate the level of QUALITY capability in Southern Africa. Professional development and advancement of QUALITY. Community development that enhances the standards and levels of QUALITY for the greater good of the Southern African people.
8. Objectives of SASQ Promote the theory and practices of QUALITY through recognised training, education and certification; Provide registration, development, a grading and certification mechanism for QUALITY practitioners and professionals Provide guidance for QUALITY curriculum development of associated course material at related training and academic institutions QUALITY awareness and knowledge for the benefit of business productivity in industry and commerce.
9. Council Composition President Vice President - Operations Vice President – Finance and funding Vice President – Technical Vice President - CPD All Branch Chairs Specialist Division Chairs Industry Representatives [1 – 5 voted at SASQ AGM]
10. Board Composition Chairman President Vice President - Operations Vice President – Finance Vice President – Technical Vice President - CPD Directors without portfolios [ 1 – 7 voted at SASQ AGM]
11. Office Bearer’s
12. Branch Composition Chairman – (SASQ Director) Vice Chairman Secretary Finance Officer Executive Committee Members (4) [ALL MUST BE SENIOR/PROFESSIONAL FULLY PAID UP MEMBERS – ELECTED AT A BRANCH AGM BY ALL FULLY PAID MEMBERS – excludes PROVISIONAL and ASSOCIATE MEMBERS]
13. BRANCHES
14. SASQ’s Income Membership fees Advertising space on website Sponsorships and donations Hosting of conferences Hosting of workshops and events Tours Income from sales of branding articles and any related books, journals, magazines of general interest to the membership Any other sources of income as approved by council.
15. Individual Membership
16. Individual Membership
17. Corporate Membership
18. Individual Benefits
19. Membership Card
20. SASQ FLAGSHIP AWARD DENEYS ZEEDERBERG MEMORIAL AWARD This award is to be the most prestigious award made by this Society as recognition of achievement in promoting the image of the South African product in the eyes of the consumer, the image of the Quality Profession, the maintenance and improvement of quality of product or service over an extended period, a once-off breakthrough of considerable magnitude or service to the Profession through education and training. THOMAS DENEYS ZEEDERBERG BORN 13 MAY 1930 DIED 6 OCTOBER 1986
21. OTHER SASQ AWARDS Best performing branch Top National BTECH Quality Student SASQ member achievements Most number of articles for the website Best Innovation in Quality
22. Associations & Affiliations Services Seta Quality Chamber SAATCA University of Johannesburg UNISA Tshwane University of Technology Durban University of Technology Management Today SABS SAB ABI SANAS Armscor ABB ESKOM RMI
23. www.sasq.org.com
24. FORUMS
25. BOOK WITH SASQ INPUT
26. QUALITY DIGEST
27. Membership Fees
28. Fund your membership fees Attendance of branch meetings and branch events (80 % attendance get 5% discount) Attendance/participation to National conferences and workshops 100 % attendance get 5% discount) Submission of quality related news and articles which will remain as SASQ material (2 % for each accepted submission). Number of new members introduced by yourself (5% for each member registered) Management activities at branches (15 % for branch office, or National Office)
29. ANY QUESTIONS?