Volume 6 · Issue 11 · November 2001

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A Registrar Q&A: The ISO 9001:2000 Transition–Auditing Issues

THE OUTLOOK has challenged five registrars and RAB to provide answers to the ninth question in this series: Subclause 8.2.2, Internal Audit, requires an organization’s auditing program to be planned taking the results of previous audits into account and with expectation that corrective actions be taken "without undue delay" to eliminate nonconformities. First, how far back in the internal audit records should the internal auditors go in planning and/or revising the audit program? Second, how will internal and registrar auditors assess what does and does not constitute "undue delay"?