AIBD’s Surveillance Audit – 2011

AIBD is in its third year of being certified as ISO 9001: 2003 and ISAS BC 9001:2008 by the Media & Society Foundation in Switzerland. This reflects the Institute’s competency and credibility in pursing initiatives in media management systems.

The external audit was carried out at AIBD on 27th June 2011 as required by the certification process on the performance of the management system. The scope of the external audit was to cover all activities organized by AIBD with a particular focus on co-production activities, improvement actions since the last surveillance audit in April 2010.

The objectives were to check if the management system is in compliance with the standards, the efficiency and performance of the quality management system to improve the areas identified of the surveillance audit carried out in the previous year with the focus on identifying potential risks, non-conformities and accuracy of compliance in the documentation.

All procedure authors, the quality manager, executive officer administration, finance officer including Mr Yang Binyuan, Director AIBD were well under the scrutiny of the external auditor during this one day rigorous exercise.

The lead auditor was non other than Dr Magali Modoux, Director, Ethics - an organization specializing in ethical integrity and corporate management standards in Geneva.

In her concluding remarks she said that she was impressed by the commitment and the efforts and congratulated the staff members for carrying out this challenging task successfully with a lot of additional work with new staff, changes in the top management at AIBD during the last year, yet, maintaining its conformity to the quality management system.

She also emphasized the importance for members, and partners of AIBD to be responsive in providing feedback to the institute. The measures taken in particular by the institute to focus on their needs has reflected the attempts to ensure servicing them to be in conformity of the quality management systems. She further reiterated that this is yet another achievement and credit to AIBD’s competence and credibility as a leading international broadcasting institute and continuously improve and fulfill the expectations of its stakeholders in benchmarking, promoting and implementing best practices in management, technology and contents for media organizations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr Yang Binyuan thanked Dr Magali Modoux for her comments and took the opportunity to share his appreciation and said that he “ is blessed with a small yet committed staff who worked together as an efficient team who had made the management system to be compliant with the certification as the institute takes more challenging and new approaches in serving its members.”

The certificate, which will be renewed in June 2012 covers training, consultancy publications, content production and conferences of the AIBD.

(Source : Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development)