Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance

It is our motto at GHS to incorporate quality in our services, not just the products we outsource. The personnel are staggeringly trained to attain perfection and our clients get the most value-driven experience out of it.
Quality Process
01
Pre Production meeting with factory

This step enables GHS to be aware of raw materials and the production plan, inhouse dates, and the equipment details.

02
Intro Stage Inspection

This stage enables inspectors to compare products with original samples to ensure premium quality.

03
Production Monitoring

Large-scale products are put under surveillance around-the-clock from manufacturing to shipment.

04
During Production Inspection (DUPRO)

Around 20 to 40% of in-house GHS products are inspected and 10 to 20% of Dupro inspection is conducted to ensure the utmost quality.

05
Final Random Inspection: FRI

This final inspection is for when 80% of merchandise and 100% of shipment is under packaging process.

06
Containerisation Check

This final step ensures peace of mind for customers to guarantee that their products are containerized as they desired.

Shipping

Global Home Solution, Inspection uses International AQL standard for the all product Inspections and can also work on the AQL suggested by the client.AQL is tolerance allowed to a samples size beyond which Defects will not be allowed.

With the detailed data the client can base a confirmed decision to accept or reject a shipment.

Factory and Social Audits

Know the factory compliances for the Product and the ethical practices (working conditions) and be aware then be surprised.

GHS Inspection is a quality control service provider which also conducts Factory Audits and Social Audits in India for all Buyers of the world importing out of India. We have trained Auditors who do factory and social audits only.\

Factory Audit is a thorough evaluation of the production facilities and organization structure to give details to the Buyer on capacity and capability of a product specific or as a whole capacity to produce a quality product on time.
An experienced auditor would conduct the Factory Evaluation with recording all the details of the factory in regards to:

  • Quality System: Quality policy / Purchase of raw material / Control of Non conforming products and their disposal. All records would be seen.
  • Factory premises and Factory boundary wall and its height and strength of the structure.
  • Machine list and the capacity of each machine with running schedule. All records would be checked
  • List of Products in Pipeline and Production. A complete record of shipped and still to be checked.
  • List of Products in Pipeline and Production. A complete record of shipped and still to be shipped would be made to give a data for buyer to base his decision.
  • Overall assessment of the Packaging area etc: The evaluator will look at the light, checking and packing facility at the factory. Departmental communication with all the different departments of the factory would be seen by looking at the records of such internal communication.
  • HRD – Role of HR from hiring to introduction to induction of the employee to his position. All trainings, understanding given to him for his new role in company.

GHS recommends Factory evaluations to be done before the order is placed so that the as buyer you have a detailed factory profile with complete list of the facilities and machines working condition and most of all the company has internal system to support the facilities to produce your ordered product on time. Factory Evaluation gives you a clear picture of the factory with all data to decide to work with the Factory or choose other factory for production of your order.

Social Audits

Social audits are done to ensure the production factory is in compliance with providing hygienic working conditions, with all safety standards, labour laws and child laws are followed. Auditor from GHS Inspection goes to the factory and walks through the entire factory looking through the facilities and records provided by Factory and noting all the details and then sends the observation to the buyer.
This is done to inform the Buyer where the Vendor stands out on:

  • Employment of Child / Prison / Forced Labor. Also does not Detains the Employees after working Hours without Employee’s Consent / or gives Employee Corporal / Financial Punishment.
  • Vendor is not biased on the basis of Caste / Creed / Sex / Religion gives fair chance to all Employees.
  • Vendor gives Fair Salary that is at Par /More than Local Laws of the State.
  • Also Vendor pays the Salary for the Overtime as per Local Law.
  • Safety Measures for Employees working on Machines
Consultancy for CTPAT Compliance

The Customs – Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a supply chain security initiated by US Customs and Border protection, for enhancing the security of the private companies to counter terrorism.

GHS sends an auditor to the factory; the auditor visualises and screens the factory area and area around the factory and goes through various records maintained by factory. The area he assesses includes:

  • Factory entry gate and security at the gate and security of the premises.
  • Factory premises and Factory boundary wall and its height and strength of the structure.
  • He looks into the record of the ids submitted by the various persons entering the factory for supplying goods, meeting the staff, personal guest and drivers of the vehicles.
  • The factory staff hiring processes and is factory HR looking and verifying the past records.
  • Place for Container and container security and verification of the container driver.
  • Packed carton ready to ship area and factory staff responsible
  • Factory staff responsible for handling and controlling container seals.
Guidance for External Audit

We also provide a facility of Consultancy guidance to a factory to attain compliance as per the requirement of the FSC standards and make it ready for the FSC audit from an accreditations agency.

An auditor from GHS goes to the factory and evaluates the systems, procedures, records and advises the factory’s concerned departments with all the requirements. The auditor then works with the factory and develops a system with processes and procedures. The factory required departments starts making the changes and start documenting the processes as per procedures keep the records of all documents as per the requirement of the FSC standards.

The guidance helps the factory to come in terms with the requirement of the FSC standards.

We also provide consultancy to the factories for over all compliance as per the buyer’s requirement. We explain the factory the need of a compliant factory to the buyer. We provide the factory all necessary documents specially designed as per the factory requirement. We train different department employees on the system and ensure they understand the importance of the system and their role in the system.

We train them on internal meeting, documentation among departments.

We give training from buying of Raw material and documenting it to putting the rawmaterial to production process to packing and final despatch.

Wherein the buyer can trace and link the Final product to the raw material.

The consultancy is given to the factory for improvement on safe, hygienic, ethical, working environment of the factory.

Maintaining of Machine area with proper Safety one stop button on machine, proper shield and blade covers, eye glass, clean water to wash eyes, clutter free and timely cleaning of work area etc.

Proper eating place and water at the time of lunch.

Proper medicine and emergency preparations with trained team members to help.

Emergency and fire drills for safe escape at time of emergency.

Proper maintenance of personal files of employees are some points which we explain in depth for proper Social compliance.

The Customs – Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is an important compliance which factory to understand and comply with it.

The auditor from GHS goes to the factory and assesses the overall security situation and looks at the records maintained by the factory and guides them to make a system which includes:

  • Securing the outer boundaries and lighting them.
  • Factory Gate and internal security.
  • Documents required to be furnished by the Guest / suppliers / Vehicles entering the factory premises and their drivers.
  • Factory employee security and past records.
  • Container security and documents to be furnished by the Container driver
  • Employee responsible for the Secure area where cartons are kept
  • Secure carton loading area and recording to be done at the time of loading of container.
  • Seals controls

We also provide consultation for making a strong Quality system for the factory. The Auditor from the factory closely looks at the working of the factory and identifies the weak links in the chain of quality control. Then he makes the suggestions and designs quality hierarchy defining duties from Manager to checking supervisor to checker.

Making documents including daily packing report to daily checking report till final packaging of the order and Inspection of shipment by internal quality inspectors at various stages of production – first pc inspection to 5% production inhouse to 20% production inhouse to 40% production inhouse and 20% packed then 80% packed.

This document will also include testing of the product as per internal testing the product before producing bulk.

A Quality system which ensures, a good Quality shipment is shipped to the buyer.

  • Identify the Defect
  • General Appearance
  • Color Finish
  • Workmanship
  • Utility
  • Labeling / Marketing
  • AI / MI
  • Packing
  • MC / DL

GHS Inspection is a quality service providing company and recommends for a Lab testing for the product imported from India to the Buyers. To ensure the product is compliant of International and their own country of Import laws and matches the standards of the Industry.

GHS Inspection can send the Test details required for your product and can book the product with the Test Lab or can send a Inspector to pick a pc for testing*

Some Test we recommend:

Food Products – Lead and leachable lead, cadmium.

Related test for Mercury.

If there any coating like Mother of Pearl on the Aluminium etc – Heat resistance and cross cut adhesion test

Furniture, Decoratives with Lacquer or any other coating – Lead in surface coating,

Other Test we strongly recommend are CPSIA / Reach /RoHS

Package test :Transit testing, Vibration Test/ Carton corners Burst Strength / Drop Test.

For Textiles:

Color crocking - wet and dry.

For curtains effect of sunlight / wash cycles

Flame retardant etc are some of the Test.

  • Functionality Testing
  • Moisture Check
  • Drop Tests
  • Stuffing / Filling test
  • Full Assembling Filling Test
  • Compilation Of Final Report
    Accepted, Rejected, Or On Hold
  • Shipping Permit / Inspection Certificate