Hi everyone,
In Accreditation bodies for quality management systems must fill the requirements of ISO/IEC Guide 62 or EN 45012 in Europe.
If we check annex 2 - Auditor time of the document “EA Guidelines on the application of EN 45012”, we can that generally Registrars are not using the Auditor time for initial audit stated in the table.
For example for a small company (30 people), according to that table the initial audit should take 4 auditor days, and last week a client of mine had his first one only in 2 working days.
This happens because of the competition between Registrars. They have to get the lowest prices on the market, otherwise they won’t have clients. The easiest way is to make auditing process shorter (even going against the standard they are accredited).
I think this is happening all around the world, not just here.
Shouldn’t this system be out of these competition problems?
When this process was made by a government Institute, these competition issues where never a problem. We changed for a worse solution – as normally happens here...
The document “EA Guidelines on the application of EN 45012” can be downloaded free at www.european-accreditation.org.
AV.
In Accreditation bodies for quality management systems must fill the requirements of ISO/IEC Guide 62 or EN 45012 in Europe.
If we check annex 2 - Auditor time of the document “EA Guidelines on the application of EN 45012”, we can that generally Registrars are not using the Auditor time for initial audit stated in the table.
For example for a small company (30 people), according to that table the initial audit should take 4 auditor days, and last week a client of mine had his first one only in 2 working days.
This happens because of the competition between Registrars. They have to get the lowest prices on the market, otherwise they won’t have clients. The easiest way is to make auditing process shorter (even going against the standard they are accredited).
I think this is happening all around the world, not just here.
Shouldn’t this system be out of these competition problems?
When this process was made by a government Institute, these competition issues where never a problem. We changed for a worse solution – as normally happens here...
The document “EA Guidelines on the application of EN 45012” can be downloaded free at www.european-accreditation.org.
AV.