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This may seem like a rather daft question but one that I would like some clarity on.
The company I work for will soon be having its OHSAS 18001 assessment. As part of the internal auditing systems we obviously raise non-conformance's against the requirements.
My question is this, if the external OHSAS 18001 auditor finds a non-conformance that we have already identified through our internal audits, can he still raise this as a non-conformance in his final report?
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Yes, this can still be raised. non conformance is non conformance. however it should be recognised in the report that this has been highlighted from your own internal audits, which demonstrates your systems work and the non conformance will be continuos improvements against critera and your own systems.
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As an auditor I would also be looking closely at precisely what has been and is being done to correct the matter
Bob
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Supporting what dennis and bob have said, sitting through 18001 audits I've seen the auditor specifically looking through our Risk Assessment documents and picking out 'actions' that we've noted in a column headed 'What further action might be needed to further control the risk?'
Where we had decided that action IS required we've given the action a Joblist No. The auditor then follows the trail to the Joblist spreadsheet and sees how long the job has been waiting, assesses its urgency and comments or deducts points :o)
JohnW
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As already posted you are helping the auditor by identifying NCs and then you are giving the opportunity to see that you have completed the actions you said you would in the time you said you would.
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