Common Practice to have both a Compliance Manager and a Quality Manager?

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tomjess

Is it common practice to have a Compliance manager and a Quality manager employed in the same factory?

My thinking is that the left hand is not knowing what the right hand is knowing.

Thoughts please.

Thanks in advance
 
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JRKH

Is it common practice to have a Compliance manager and a Quality manager employed in the same factory?

My thinking is that the left hand is not knowing what the right hand is knowing.

Thoughts please.

Thanks in advance

Perhaps I am displaying my ignorance, but the term Compliance Manager seems a bit more open than Quality Manager. What is he/she managing compliance to? this could be quality, or environmental/regulatory etc.

James
 
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Duke Okes

Is it common practice to have a Compliance manager and a Quality manager employed in the same factory? My thinking is that the left hand is not knowing what the right hand is knowing. Thoughts please. Thanks in advance

It depends on what the role is of each. Compliance might be focused on regulatory requirements or external standards (ISO 9001/quality, 14001/environmental, 18001/OHS, cGMP, etc.) and quality manager focused on performance improvement. They require somewhat different thinking processes. Might also depend on size of the organization as well as industry.
 

Sidney Vianna

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Is it common practice to have a Compliance manager and a Quality manager employed in the same factory?
Thoughts please.
Not in my experience. Product regulatory compliance is one of the facets of Quality Management. It would be as unusual as having a quality manager and a customer satisfaction manager...Not unheard of, but not common in my experience.

Obviously there are other regulatory issues at hand such as Environmental, Occupational Health & Safety, Accounting Reporting, etc...
 
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Ajit Basrur

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Usually the position of Compliance Manager exists in Pharmaceutical organisations but havent really heard in medical devices.

In my organsiation, we have a Compliance Manager responsible for audits - both Internal and external. They are also responsible for other responsibilities like Regualtory, Participate in Review Boards like Material review Board, Validation review Borad etc,

The Quality manager is basically responsible for QC functions.

Tomjess - In my organisation, the right hand is knowing what the left is doing but they come together to give a BIG :applause:
 

Randy

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Sidney is correct...What type of compliance are you referring to

Standards

Food & Drug

Occupational Safety

Environmental

Ms Leather and her whip?
 

Coury Ferguson

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My :2cents:

Usually there is a Compliance Manager that is mostly involved in FAA requirements. At least in my experience. I have seen that there is both the QA Manager and RA Manager.
 
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Dan Armstrong

I can't speak to too many other industries, but in the ones that I've been around (pharmaceuticals and plumbing products) the evironmental and safety compliance is handled by a EH & S manager, usually reporting to HR, and the product quality is handled by a QA Manager. Regulatory compliance in the pharmaceutical industry is generally handled by a RA manager; in the plumbing industry it was handled by the engineers.
 

gpainter

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At my old company I was the ISO Coordinator and we had a Quality Manager. An old fashion quality control type organization.
 

ScottK

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I can't speak to too many other industries, but in the ones that I've been around (pharmaceuticals and plumbing products) the evironmental and safety compliance is handled by a EH & S manager, usually reporting to HR, and the product quality is handled by a QA Manager. Regulatory compliance in the pharmaceutical industry is generally handled by a RA manager; in the plumbing industry it was handled by the engineers.

Ditto as far as the EH&S manager being a separate entity from the QA Manager. Reporting has differed though...
Currently the EH&S Manager reports to me.
At another job (much larger, more plants) the EH&S Manager was my (Corp. QA Manager) equal and we reported to the same guy.
Another job that was very small and I held both positions.
 
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