mtespiritu
Starting to get Involved
Mabuhay! I am Ian and have been reading different posts in this site for several months now.
Please help me clarify some issues:
1. When I am auditing our contractor against a Contractor Agreement (requirement) that we have provided them related to our EMS, am I right in saying that I could have my own classification of whether the findings are OFI, minor NC or major NC? Especially since they don't have a certified EMS and even if they have, the audit scope would be based on the Contractor Agreement, right?
We have internal auditors who raised NCs with applicable ISO14001 clauses but not citing the requirements under the Contractor Agreement.
2. When I am auditing the Process owner that employs the contractor mentioned above, then I could raise the nonconformities to that particular Process owner especially if the contractor have contributed to the Department's failure to meet the EMS requirements. Right?
We have been tabulating the number of findings, especially NCs, per process owner and the process owner always says that ANY NC raised because of the contractor's actions should not credited to them.
Please help me clarify some issues:
1. When I am auditing our contractor against a Contractor Agreement (requirement) that we have provided them related to our EMS, am I right in saying that I could have my own classification of whether the findings are OFI, minor NC or major NC? Especially since they don't have a certified EMS and even if they have, the audit scope would be based on the Contractor Agreement, right?
We have internal auditors who raised NCs with applicable ISO14001 clauses but not citing the requirements under the Contractor Agreement.
2. When I am auditing the Process owner that employs the contractor mentioned above, then I could raise the nonconformities to that particular Process owner especially if the contractor have contributed to the Department's failure to meet the EMS requirements. Right?
We have been tabulating the number of findings, especially NCs, per process owner and the process owner always says that ANY NC raised because of the contractor's actions should not credited to them.