PO Requirement - Documents of external origin are identified and controlled

[Andrews]

If a particular standard given in a company's P.O refers to a standard but the auditor finds that this standard is not available with company then under which clause will the auditor book the non-conformity.Can it be booked under 7.1c) clause where it says " the organisation shall determine the criteria for product acceptance".

 

[Carl Exter]

Are you referring to industry standards like UL specs? For things of this sort we usually got dinged under 4.2.3 Control of documents f) "to ensure that documents of external origin are identified and their distribution controlled."

IMO it doesn't matter really too much what section the nonconformity is filed against as the nonconformity will be the same and will require resolution regardless.

 

[Andrews]

I am talking of product standards like thread specification , surface coating standards etc.