Of the 4 auditors, the other 3 would have noticed. Not this guy....he didn't notice stuff that should have hit him between the eyes, and tried to find n/c that didn't exist.
Example. In a recent re-assessment he was looking through N/C material hold tag log verifying disposition. He sampled the current week, went back 1/week, then 1/month, then went page by page until he found one that didn't have disposition recorded - from 10 months prior (actually dated before his last assessment.) "AH HA" he says, "what about this one..." The internal auditor/guide pointed out that in an internal audit they already documented N/C disposition, and his task just verified that the dept. implemented C/A and the Internal audit system worked. "Gotcha back" Not that this is the right forum, but shouldn't he have sampled a few dates and moved on....verifying a system is working... and not gone page by page? I know some people may clean up stuff before an audit, so auditors should sample dates a few months earlier, but page by page for 10 months?
Here's a quote he said at initial assessment after 4 days of auditing..."I know there's a major in this place somewhere, I just can't find it."
Laura