Certification Compliance Research Articles

Integration of Halal Standards and Cultural Competence: A Comprehensive Analysis of Restaurant Business Management in Thailand's Multicultural Context

This study investigates the complex interplay between Halal certification compliance and multicultural service delivery in restaurant operations within Pattani Province, Thailand. Using a quantitative approach with a sample of 303 restaurant owners and staff, the research examines how religious adherence, cultural competence, and business practices influence operational success in a diverse cultural environment. The study employs structural equation modeling to analyze relationships between staff characteristics, management practices, and business outcomes. Findings reveal significant correlations between cultural integration and business success (β = 0.832, p < 0.001), with education level and management effectiveness showing strong positive relationships (β = 0.412, p < 0.001). The research demonstrates that successful integration of Halal standards with cultural sensitivity significantly enhances customer satisfaction and business growth, explaining 84.5% of variance in business success measures. These findings contribute to understanding how religious compliance and cultural competence can be effectively balanced in restaurant management, offering practical implications for industry practitioners and policymakers in multicultural contexts.

Quantifying Impacts of Uncertainties on Certification-Driven Design

Airworthiness certification is challenging for novel aircraft concepts. To avoid the significant cost associated with the redesign for certification compliance, incorporating certification requirements into early aircraft design is desired for unconventional aircraft. However, epistemic uncertainties arising from modeling assumptions, and aleatory uncertainties stemming from uncontrollable noise factors may have impacts on the certification analysis and certification-constrained design process. This paper presents an uncertainty quantification study based on a certification-constrained design and optimization study previously conducted for NASA’s Parallel Electric–Gas Architecture with Synergistic Utilization Scheme (PEGASUS) concept. The epistemic uncertainties are modeled through a set of multiplicative factors applied to intermediate disciplinary variables. The sensitivity analysis between design metrics and multiplicative factors reveals that uncertainties in stability and control derivatives can significantly affect certification constraint predictions, and uncertainties in drag approximations have considerable impacts on the vehicle sizing process. The aleatory uncertainties added to flight dynamics simulations include wind velocities and variations of weight and center of gravity. Four representative design candidates are evaluated for their robustness against aleatory uncertainties based on the Monte Carlo simulation performed on noise factors. The results show that aleatory uncertainties can affect the aircraft dynamic responses in flight test simulations, thus compromising certification compliance.

Labour informality in forestry: A longitudinal (2009–2020) cross-country analysis of determinants in 70 developing countries

Informality accounts for a significant proportion of the forestry labour market and provides a critical livelihood option for millions of people in developing regions. Recent estimates reveal that at least three million people were informally employed in forestry. Nonetheless, informality is highly characterized by decent work deficits, profoundly impacting employment quality and sectoral development. It is thus crucial to contextualize which factors determine the prevalence of informality in the forestry sector to advance decent work and livelihood opportunities. The present study examines macro-level determinants of forestry-related informality using a cross-country panel dataset over the 2009–2020 period. Our analysis covers 70 developing countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Results from econometric models confirm that the widespread informality in forestry is a co-presence of exclusion and exit perspectives. Informality is significantly associated with economic recession and deforestation after controlling for possible endogeneity. Study findings further suggest that fostering education and forest certification compliance, along with control of corruption and ratifying international labour standards on freedom of association and labour inspection, can lessen the incidence of forestry-related informality. A balanced mix of policies and strategies that emphasize improving the identified determinants is thus decisive. This further necessitates tailoring them to the nature of forestry labour markets to address the existing issues of informality in the sector. Expanding temporal and spatial coverage of statistics on the informal economy will enhance future studies to examine patterns of informality in forestry across regions' development levels and evaluate the long-term effects of determinant factors.

Improving Patient Safety and Quality in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Through Participation in the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Continuing Certification Program.

The American Board of Medical Specialties Continuing Certification Program's Improvement in Medical Practice Standard requires physicians to participate in practice improvement activities. Despite this universal requirement, there has been no assessment of this requirement or its potential impact on patient care. Because of its continuing certification oversight structure, the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is in a unique position to provide this assessment. Review of quality improvement projects submitted to the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for continuing certification compliance revealed that most diplomates (70.1%) used available topic-specific options. These projects are designed to be directive and easy to use for physicians with limited quality improvement experience. Examples of topic-directed project potential impact on patient care include preventing wrong-site injections through implementing a preprocedure timeout or decreasing opioid prescribing risk through implementation of an opioid risk assessment tool. Thirty percent of submissions described improvement efforts in other areas of practice. These projects were directed toward areas of patient care including safety, communication/education, satisfaction, processes, and outcomes. This study demonstrates the efforts of physiatrists to improve care and the potential impact of these efforts on patient care and safety through participation in continuing certification.

Factors affecting the intention of sustainable agriculture practices among pepper farmers in Sarawak, Malaysia

The demand for safe, hygienic, organic, and high-quality food products nowadays puts pressure on farmers to produce and practice sustainability. Sustainable agriculture practices (SAPs) are crucial to be implemented on every farm that produced foods to enable the supply of hygienic, safe food products and as a solution of pesticide-residue problems towards a healthier lifestyle. However, the farmers' main challenges towards sustainability and hindering their penetration to the global market are the difficulties in complying with the international standard of quality and certification compliance, such as MyGAP or Malaysian Good Agricultural Practices in cultivating, harvesting, and processing. MyGAP compliance showed that farmers are moving towards sustainable agriculture. This paper was aimed to assess the perception and the factors that influence the Intention to implement SAPs in pepper cultivation among pepper farmers in Sarawak. Descriptive analysis and factor analysis were used to accomplish the objectives of this study. Data collection was through interviews using a structured questionnaire administered on registered farmers under the Malaysian Pepper Board (MPB), planted at least 1 hectare or 2000 pepper trees in Bau and the District of Serian, Sarawak. Systematic stratified random sampling method was used based on the two different districts selected as stratification. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was used as the conceptual framework to explain the farmers' behaviour towards SAPs. The results discovered four latent factors influencing Intention to practice SAPs: attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural Intention, and Intention, with the value of percentages of variance, explained 13.554%, 27.912%, 12.506%, 8.771%, and 7.703%, respectively. Subjective norms showed a high value of alpha at 0.935, followed by attitude (0.817) and Intention towards Sustainable Agriculture Practices (0.804). The findings provided the pepper farmers with invaluable insight on the advantages of adopting sustainable agriculture practices to expand their business locally and intentionally.

Quality Improvement Practices and Compliance Performance of Selected Malaysian SMIs: Recommendations for the Trainers

The study investigated the Quality Improvement Practices (QIP) of selected small medium industries (SMIs hereafter) namely the E&E manufacturers in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to investigate the influence of the quality improvement practices (QIP) among Malaysian E&E manufacturers on their compliance performance. The quality improvement level of twelve QIP; seven soft factors and five hard factors, were determined in the study. Later, the improvement level of the QIP was compared according to the manufacturers’ size, ownership, length of operation, and ISO status. A quantitative research method, which involved the distribution of a set of questionnaires, was used in the study. Another important aspect of the research is to identify relevant soft and hard factors that need emphasis in future trainings by the QIP trainers. As the sole assessor of Product Certification compliance for the manufacturers in Malaysia, SIRIM QAS has the data on the Malaysian manufacturers’ compliance performances. Based on the data, it can be concluded that Malaysian SMIs are still struggling in implementing quality improvement practices. The data has yielded interesting findings related to the identified soft and hard factors that need further emphasis in future trainings. The findings provided recommendations for future trainers of QIP.

Halal certification compliance and its effects on companies’ innovative and market performance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of halal certification on innovative and market business performance of halal-certified food companies in the Philippines. Through this empirical study, halal-registered and about-to-register companies would have a wider perspective and a realistic view on what to expect from halal certification. The study also hopes to enrich halal certification literature and contribute further to the better understanding of the relationship between halal certification and the business performance. Design/methodology/approach This empirical study primarily uses a quantitative approach in analyzing the relationship between halal certification and the business performance in terms of innovative and market performance. The primary data are gathered through a survey involving 211 food companies (141 halal-certified and 70 non-halal-certified). The results are analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling and independent sample t-test. Findings First, the analysis highlights that halal certification significantly affects innovative performance of halal-certified food companies. Second, the improvements in innovative performance lead to market performance improvements. Third, innovative performance fully mediates the relationship between halal certification and market performance. Finally, halal-certified food companies and non-halal-certified food companies have significant difference in terms of innovative performance and market performance. Research limitations/implications First, the population of this study consisted of only food companies in the Philippines listed in the Bureau of Product and Standard. Second, only the respective quality management representatives of the responding companies were the main respondent. Third, the samples used are from Philippines only. Therefore, the ability to generalize the reported results to all types of industry is restricted. To generalize the results of this study, additional research is desired to test the suggested model in various countries where Muslims are minority. Practical implications Understanding the impact of halal certification and its business value through empirical study should provide “about to be registered organizations” a wider perspective and a realistic view on what to expect after halal certification. It will provide factual evidences that may aid halal-certified companies in decision-making with respect to halal certification and whether it complicates or compliments their organizations’ business. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, no research has yet been conducted to investigate the impact of halal certification on business performance in the Philippines. This study, therefore, fills the gap in the research area. Through this empirical study, halal-registered and about-to-register organizations would have a wider perspective and a realistic view on what to expect from halal certification.

Triangulation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critique the existing and emerging alternative approaches being used by regulators and industry to verify the presence and efficacy of food safety management systems (FSMS). It is the second paper in a theme issue of Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, discussing the importance of measuring food safety and quality culture.Design/methodology/approachThis paper, primarily focused on UK examples, examines academic and grey literature to consider the options for effective verification of FSMS with emphasis on the hospitality sector including the use of triangulation.FindingsThird-party certification (TPC) compliance audits alone will not deliver effective verification of the FSMS and the cultural context of how formal systems are implemented, monitored and internally verified. Triangulation needs to be undertaken during the FSMS verification process which at its simplest is a Question, Observe, Measure (QOM) triad and at its more complex involves TPC compliance audits and performance assessment using data analysis methodology and product and environmental testing.Originality/valueThe paper will be of value to practitioners, researchers and other stakeholders involved in the hospitality industry.

An Overview of Acceptance and Adoption of Agricultural Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Palm Oil Industry

Oil palm was planted commercially in Malaysia about 100 years ago. Today, palm oil industry is one of National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) under The Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), a comprehensive programme to assist Malaysia in achieving its goal of achieving high-income status by 2020. The Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification compliance will be made mandatory by the end of 2019 to elevate the industry to global standards and sustainable. Technology is one of the strategic tools in enhancing the economic competitiveness of a country. In oil palm industry, many types of technology were invented to assist workers to perform their work process. The example of innovation and technology introduced in Malaysia includes the use of a motorized harvesting pole, CantasTM, to improve harvesting productivity, a diamond sharpening tool, and the use of buffalo-assisted collection of FFBs. However, the acceptance and the adoption of all these technologies are still low and the industry depends highly on the human labour.

Bonding of CFRP primary aerospace structures – discussion of the certification boundary conditions and related technology fields addressing the needs for development

Today, the application of bonding technology for primary aerospace structures is limited due to the certification regulations. State of the art is an additional application of fasteners which is limiting the benefits of the application of composite bonded joints. This article provides an overview of the current state of the art of certification compliance within the context of bonded CFRP primary aerospace structures. Beginning with the boundary conditions and the background of the certification regulations, the current framework for the development of composite bonded joints is described including the experiences within the aerospace industry as well as the physical principles that are leading to initial damages and uncertainties within a composite bonded joint. Also, the role and interaction of different technology streams such as surface preparation, process safety, material and adhesive development, and design and sizing concepts to enable a secured roadmap to certification is discussed. The resulting needs for current and future technology development and their interaction within the different disciplines is described. Also, solution approaches to build a roadmap to certification of CFRP-bonded joints are highlighted.

An evaluation of ECT sample height for small flute board grades and Box Manufacturer’s Certification compliance

TAPPI test T811 is the specified method to ascertain ECT relative to box manufacturer’s certification compliance of corrugated fiberboard under Rule 41/ Alternate Item 222. T811 test sample heights were derived from typical board constructions at the time of the test method’s initial development. New, smaller flute sizes have since been developed, and the use of lighter weight boards has become more common. The T811 test method includes sample specifications for typical A-flute, B-flute, and C-flute singlewall (and doublewall and triplewall) structures, but not for newer thinner E-flute or F-flute structures. This research explores the relationship of ECT sample height to measured compressive load, in an effort to determine valid E-flute and F-flute ECT sample heights for use with the T811 method. Through this process, it identifies challenges present in our use of current ECT test methods as a measure of intrinsic compressive strength for smaller flute structures. The data does not support the use of TAPPI T 811 for ECT measurement for E and F flute structures, and demonstrates inconsistencies with current height specifi-cations for some lightweight B flute.

Maintaining certification compliance of equipment used in hazardous (classified) locations

In order to understand how to maintain certification compliance of equipment used in hazardous (classified) locations, one must first have an understanding of what a hazardous (classified) location is and what the requirements are for the equipment certification. These will be explained in Part I by Cheryl Gagliardi, a senior engineer with FM Approvals. Part II will cover recommendations for end-user actions for maintaining the certification compliance and will be provided by Bob Baker, an industry consultant to Emerson Process Management.

CEO and CFO Certifications of Financial Information

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marshall A. Geiger, Porcher L. Taylor; CEO and CFO Certifications of Financial Information. Accounting Horizons 1 December 2003; 17 (4): 357–368. doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/acch.2003.17.4.357 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest Search