The Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) has published and distributed its Annual Membership Directory for 2016.
During an Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) validation, a location is allowed to have people observe the validation. The observers may be anyone a location selects, and the observers may watch part or all of the validation process.
The AGSC has completed its first cluster of validations to the new ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS™ 003-2015 Standard.
In April, the Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) will begin its 2016 validations. This will be the first year that validations are conducted to ANSI/AGSC/AGRSS™ Standard 003-2015, the most recent version of the AGRSS™ Standard. Because of the change to the Standard, the documents that the validators use to conduct the
We recently heard from a shop owner who was worried that his business would lose a whole day’s work during its upcoming Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) validation. This is not the case. The validation process is designed to minimize business disruptions.
We recently conducted an analysis of the last four years of data from the Auto Glass Safety Council™’s (AGSC) third-party validation reviews and have identified the most common validation noncompliances. These areas may also be opportunities for improvement for your own organization.
2015 validations have begun. As in previous years, the validators will be conducting 2015 validations to the Auto Glass Replacement Safety Standard (AGRSS®) ANSI/AGRSS 002-2002 version. We will be using the same process and the same forms as in 2014. In order to provide locations with assistance in transitioning to the newly
At Auto Glass Week™, I was speaking with a representative of an Auto Glass Safety Council™ (AGSC) Registered Member Company that had been recently validated. As I was leaving, the representative said, “See you in three years!” My thanks to this person for providing me with the topic for this
While most Registered Member companies are familiar with the Auto Glass Safety Council™’s (AGSC) on-site validation review program, often representatives new to the process are curious about the details of the program. Following is an overview of the program, how it works, and where we are in the three-year validation
Looking back at the 2012 validations to the AGRSS Standard, we can identify areas where some companies have had opportunities to improve their operations. It would be good practice for all Auto Glass Safety Council (AGSC)-Registered Companies to review these topics to ensure that these types of errors are not also occurring in their own operations.
The most commonly occurring nonconformities found during 2012 validations were:
· Location didn’t have all the required DOT and/or windshield part number records;