Volume 8 · Issue 2 · February 2003

Contents

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The Process Approach: Auditing a Process and an Objective

In the third part of a series on issues related to the auditing of a QMS and its processes against the new requirements of ISO 9001:2000, Bart Solomon and John Stratton write that the auditing of a process and the auditing of an objective are the key differences between the auditing of a QMS against ISO 9001/2/3:1994 and against the 2000 edition. They show how to audit the process approach and the objectives and examine what you need to do to bring the audit results together in reaching conclusions about the QMS.