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My point of view has been that internal audits are conducted to determine if the ISO requirements are met...but that doesn't mean the auditor must use ISO 9001 as audit criteria...
I personally believe that this often comes from the biased view and stories that are 'spread' by the current internal/lead auditor training courses. Too much emphasis is placed on making the auditors 'expert' in interpreting ISO requirements! Bizarre!
I personally believe that this often comes from the biased view and stories that are 'spread' by the current internal/lead auditor training courses. Too much emphasis is placed on making the auditors 'expert' in interpreting ISO requirements! Bizarre!
And I attended a 5-day lead-auditor course around 3 years ago. Run by one of the UK's leading certification bodies (I won't say which one...), it wasn't quite as bad as the picture you paint above but was quite heavily centred around ISO 9001 (unsurprising really as the fictitious organisation being audited used ISO 9001 as audit criteria...).

