Back to Basics: Corrective vs. Preventive Action
Back to Basics: Corrective vs. Preventive Action
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- March 2005
- Issue:
- Volume 38 Issue 3
- Pages:
- pp. 104-105
- Author(s):
- Westcott, Russ
- Organization(s):
- R.T. Westcott & Associates, Old Saybrook, CT
Abstract
Quality professionals frequently express confusion as to the difference between corrective and preventive action. A corrective action deals with a nonconformity that has occurred, and a preventive action addresses the potential for a nonconformity to occur.
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