Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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PDCA Cycle

The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA/PDSA) cycle is a simple and effective approach with a continuous loop of planning, doing, checking (or studying), and acting, and it is generally used for testing improvement measures on a smaller scale before scaling procedures and working practices.

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