{"id":63,"date":"2018-08-17T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:30:08","slug":"quality-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/quality-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556198872271{padding-top: 200px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-image: url(http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Expertise.jpg?id=7371) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Quality Management&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;uppercase&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541668699420{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #bf2026 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541405850168{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][menu select=&#8221;style1&#8243; menu=&#8221;Expertise&#8221; extra_class=&#8221;uppercase industries-menu&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541672214592{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1543592027482{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.05) !important;*background-color: rgb(0,0,0) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 28px; line-height: 38px;\">We are aware that in our industry quality is very important &#8211; and we will not state that we have excellent quality. What we would like to share with you is what we have invested into the management of our process, so that we can prevent and avoid mistakes.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1546854557920{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have reached the conclusion that there are 5 key points in which it is crucial that we pay attention to. Improving in these areas will give us the essentials that we need to reach a very high level of customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the key elements we care about in order to improve our services for you: <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/certificates\/Across-Certificate-1-Stop-Asia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3798\" src=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-across.jpg\" alt=\"Quality Management ACROSS Certificate\" width=\"370\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-across.jpg 370w, http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-across-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Staff certification <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We always keep up-to-date with <a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/cat-tools\/\">technology<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We train our AM\/PMs departments <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to work with the relevant software<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We check our linguists\u2019 certification and background beforehand. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We train our teams to work with almost every software available for translation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are open to new software should you require this<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Training for partners <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your employees need assistance on how to work with us, we cover that base in advance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our employees are open to training if you require us to have something specific<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. ISO certification <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ISO_Certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3804\" src=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso17100.jpg\" alt=\"ISO Certificate 17100:2015\" width=\"370\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso17100.jpg 370w, http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso17100-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ISO_Certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 17100:2015<\/a> \u2013 Translation Agency \u2013 the management style of the workflow is very important, and this is especially true when it comes to translation companies. With our persistent desire to improve and to be a valuable and trusted partner for our clients, we have adopted the <a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ISO_Certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 17100:2017<\/a> in October 2017. This \u00a0ISO standard is adopted by Translation agencies and refers to: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Translation and translation services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Translation workflow and technology<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Language and content <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People involved in translation services <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Control of the translation services process. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our translators, based on the <a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ISO_Certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 17 100:2015<\/a>, are a team of carefully selected experts fulfilling the following criteria: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A degree in translation, linguistics, or an equivalent degree that includes significant translation training from a recognized institution of higher education<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A degree in any other field from a recognized institution of higher education and the equivalent of two years full-time professional experience in translation <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equivalent of five years full-time professional experience in translation <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production process is a straight-forward process with clearly defined stages and checks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teams on all relevant stages are carefully selected,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and there is a clear system in which we are constantly auditing and looking to improve in our selection process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/certificates\/ISO-9001-certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 9001:2015<\/a> \u2013 Quality Management Systems \u2013 we obtained this certificate in June 2018, and it was an important milestone for us, as ISO is an internationally recognized standard that ensures that our products and services meet the needs of our clients through an effective quality management system. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are your benefits? <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time efficiency: we have confirmed that our process management is structured, effective, and organized, which gives us the opportunity to work fast and accurately for our partners<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality of resources: better management of resources, teams, and work processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer satisfaction: we are taking it one-step further when it comes to detecting and identifying a problem, and how we solve it. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. GDPR<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/certificates\/ISO-9001-certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3803\" src=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso9001.jpg\" alt=\"ISO Certificate 9001:2015\" width=\"370\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso9001.jpg 370w, http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cert-iso9001-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with all other companies that value their own partners and clients, we have adopted the GDPR regulations and our Translation Company complies with the Data Protection Regulation. We have developed and adopted our own regulation system which is related to the following simple rules listed below: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a law-abiding data controller, we take all reasonable measures to ensure that your data is processed and stored securely. We have developed a comprehensive Management System certified to <a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/certificates\/ISO-9001-certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 9001:2015<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #bf2026;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ISO_Certificate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISO 17100:2015<\/a> which includes appropriate policies and procedures designed to ensure the fair and transparent management practices covering all aspects of our activities, including information security and personal data protection. To ensure that your personal data is processed and stored securely, we apply a range of organizational and technical security measures which include but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GDPR-compliant Information Security Policy and Data Protection Policy with specific guidance to our employees, sub-processors, and freelancers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with employees and contractors (sub processors and freelancers). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development of a cloud-based platform where our data management processes take place, which is accessible with appropriate restriction worldwide by our employees and contractors. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing guidance and demanding from our contractors full compliance with the best possible data protection measures, including their own desktop and mobile computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appropriate procedures and methods of data transfer via secure channels of communication and additional measures such as encryption. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appropriate policies for retention of documents containing personal data and deletion upon completion of the job related to a particular document. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adequate measures to ensure the preservation of documents from loss or destruction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continuous review of data security practices to ensure full compliance with the applicable legislation and the client requirements set forth in agreements or specific instructions. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case we identify an actual or potential data breach, we will immediately notify you and the respective data protection authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Complaint management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our long experience has given us some valuable lessons and one of them is that being partners means that we have to be able to recognize and amend our own mistakes. By developing a straight-forward complaint management system,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we are not only able to acknowledge our mistakes, but we are also able to analyze our mistakes and learn how not to repeat them.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Here is how our Complaint Management works: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a client finds a problem with the project, they send us a notification<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We ask them to fill out a report with feedback on the matter<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We pass the feedback to the relevant Language Leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Language Leader engages a third-party who is an Independent, to check and evaluate the situation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We issue a statement along with necessary correction \/if applicable\/ and return to client<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few times a year we summarize the feedback and analyze the situation. We learn from our mistakes and improve where necessary. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For our regular clients we create glossaries, guides for our translators, and many other references in order to keep the process as easy and flawless as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556198872271{padding-top: 200px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-image: url(http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Expertise.jpg?id=7371) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Quality Management&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_class=&#8221;uppercase&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541668699420{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #bf2026 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1541405850168{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][menu select=&#8221;style1&#8243; menu=&#8221;Expertise&#8221; extra_class=&#8221;uppercase industries-menu&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}