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Hi everyone!
The Province of Ontario recently began requiring all municipalities that supply drinking water to their residents to implement Quality Management Systems that conform to the made-in-Ontario "Drinking Water Quality Management Standard" - which is a blend of ISO 9001, ISO 140001 and HACCP.
I came to my current position at this municipality, from a ISO 9001 registered company, a month before the legislated deadline to submit the "Operational Plan" (aka QMS Manual) to the external auditing body for accreditation. Looking at the "Handbook for accrediation" supplied to all municipalities by the registrar, they state that they are going to do the audits on a 3 year cycle, similiar to ISO - but what confuses me, is that they state the Year 1 and 2 Surveillance audits will only be Systems audits - with no site visit!?! Now, my only experience is with ISO - and our registrar came to our site for all surveillance audits, and only selected a small portion of our system to audit. I'm wondering how the heck they can perform a "systems audit" without looking for objective evidence (records etc.) that we are "doing what we say"?!?
Does this type of "systems audit" occur elsewhere, or with different standards?
Just curious!
Thanks,
Darlene
The Province of Ontario recently began requiring all municipalities that supply drinking water to their residents to implement Quality Management Systems that conform to the made-in-Ontario "Drinking Water Quality Management Standard" - which is a blend of ISO 9001, ISO 140001 and HACCP.
I came to my current position at this municipality, from a ISO 9001 registered company, a month before the legislated deadline to submit the "Operational Plan" (aka QMS Manual) to the external auditing body for accreditation. Looking at the "Handbook for accrediation" supplied to all municipalities by the registrar, they state that they are going to do the audits on a 3 year cycle, similiar to ISO - but what confuses me, is that they state the Year 1 and 2 Surveillance audits will only be Systems audits - with no site visit!?! Now, my only experience is with ISO - and our registrar came to our site for all surveillance audits, and only selected a small portion of our system to audit. I'm wondering how the heck they can perform a "systems audit" without looking for objective evidence (records etc.) that we are "doing what we say"?!?
Does this type of "systems audit" occur elsewhere, or with different standards?
Just curious!
Thanks,
Darlene
at some of the hoops they make us jump through!!