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Category Archives: 9001 Lead Auditor Study Group
The Stage 1 Audit
This post outlines the value of the Stage 1 Review in conformity assessment. Given that things are changing, temporarily you’d hope. it looks like an increasing number of these will be conducted remotely. In principle I have no issue with this, provided the integrity of the activity can be maintained, and it continues to be fit for purpose. Continue reading
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Taking Control of the Facts
Getting to the bottom of things is reaching that point where everything adds up and makes sense. When that’s not happening, you’ve not got to the bottom of things, so keep going. Continue reading
Why Understanding Your Internal & External Issues Is Important
Like many systems of this type, there is no formal structure for identifying internal and external issues, the associated risks and the necessary contingencies and back up plans. In this situation you often get the impression that the management team simply “know” what these things are and “naturally take them into account”. So why the need for anything more formal? Continue reading
ISO 9001:2015 Non-Applicability
A post on ISO 9001:2015 by Shaun Sayers. I’m starting to get asked this quite a bit just now, so maybe it’s time for an article to explain it and to point people at. Those people going through ISO 9001 transition now, and whose QMS has what ISO 9001:2008 calls “exclusions” will need to revisit the matter. In many ways the same rules apply, but there are a couple of differences. Continue reading
How To Write A Nonconformance
Audit reporting requires a complete picture – to report the good as well as the bad – but in this post I want to concentrate on how we construct nonconformances. Continue reading