Division 3 Definitions
United Kingdom
In particular the following definitions from ISO 19011:2002 and ISO 9000:2000 should be noted:
means the set of policies, procedures or requirements used as a reference against which audit evidence is compared, i.e. the standard against which the auditee’s activities are assessed.
means the description of the activities and arrangements for an audit.
means a set of one or more audits planned for a specific time frame and directed towards a specific purpose.
means one or more auditors conducting an audit supported if needed by technical experts.
means organisation being audited.
means a person with the competence to conduct an audit.
means action to eliminate the cause of a detected non-conformity or other undesirable situation.
means action to eliminate the cause of a potential non-conformity or other undesirable situation.
means a person who provides specific knowledge or expertise to the audit team.
For the purposes of these Guidelines, the following definitions apply:
means the body that carries out the audit process. This may be an internal or external entity.
means the set of activities described in Section 5.1. (Systematic Approach).
means the combination of one or more audit bodies carrying out an audit process within or across competent authorities.
means the whole production chain incorporating all ‘stages of production, processing and distribution’ as defined in Article 3(16) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
- f2
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‘Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing’, published by International Organisation for Standardisation, 1 October 2002.
- f3
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‘Quality management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary’, published by the International Organisation for Standardisation, December 2000.