From the ISO ListServe:
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:29 -0500
Subject: Re: Internal Audit Transition /George/Salinger
From: Salinger
> From: BOB
>
> Does anyone have any information regarding International Standard ISO/DIS
> 19011: Guidelines for Quality and/or Environmental Management Systems
> Auditing? That is, has it been finalized? If it hasn't, any ideas when it
> is expected to be?
>
> I'm interested in this because as we transition to ISO 9000:2000, our audit
> program must evolve from a programmatic/performance based system to one of
> auditing processes. I could use some guidance for this transition/upgrade
> and I thought perhaps this guidance document could help by providing me with
> something to base my auditor training and the implementation of this new
> (for me) auditing technique on. Will this guideline even address my needs?"
>
ISO/DIS 19011 (draft international standard) has not yet been voted on. There is a real debate as to whether the guidance for internal auditors (competence thereof) is appropriate. The U.S.TAG (Technical Advisory Group) to ISO Committee 176 is negative on this DIS as it stands today. The DIS provides detailed information for third-party auditors but the requirements for internal auditors are not very well discussed. I doubt that this Standard will be of more help for training your internal auditors than 10011 is. There are books and articles on "process" auditing which may be helpful in supplementing the training on general QMS auditing techniques. You can check the ASQ website (
www.asq.org ) for listings of various Quality Press publications.
Regards,
Rudy
*******************
From: Dennis Arter
The USA team of quality and environmental auditors has significant problems with the proposed ISO standard on management systems auditing, ISO 19011. They have prepared a position paper to accompany the suggested negative vote on this document. If you wish, you may download the position paper (but not the draft standard) from the QAD web site:
*** Dead link removed ***
If you have comments on this issue, please provide them to Baskar Kotte, our ASQ/QAD standards representative.
Please note that we only posted the USA analysis of the document and not the draft standard itself. For that, you must belong to one of your national standards committees. I will prepare a more in-depth response to the question in a few days.
Dennis Arter