J
Our first registration audit (after opting to forgo a pre-registration overview.)
It was our plan to have but 1 authorized set of documents - keep neatly controlled in a bullet proof free standing computer.
We issued Red stamped UNCONTROLLED copies through - the shop to make the information "readily" available. Of course we provided our external registrars with the same information.
They decided that our documents were not controlled because the paper was white & no red controlled stamp was on them.
We printed a single set that evening & then asked them to return the "uncontrolled" copies they were provided so they could be destroyed.
They spent the next two days running back & forth to the single controlled set. We would not allow it to be removed from the office. At the exit meeting they remarked with a broad smile that they should maybe have waited to make this point on the last day of the audit.
Regards
Jim
It was our plan to have but 1 authorized set of documents - keep neatly controlled in a bullet proof free standing computer.
We issued Red stamped UNCONTROLLED copies through - the shop to make the information "readily" available. Of course we provided our external registrars with the same information.
They decided that our documents were not controlled because the paper was white & no red controlled stamp was on them.
We printed a single set that evening & then asked them to return the "uncontrolled" copies they were provided so they could be destroyed.
They spent the next two days running back & forth to the single controlled set. We would not allow it to be removed from the office. At the exit meeting they remarked with a broad smile that they should maybe have waited to make this point on the last day of the audit.
Regards
Jim
Fortunately, the corporate quality head saw the humour in this and was highly complimentary to the internal auditors and gave us more work training auditors all over the corporation.
She made her point very diplomatically, needless to say all the pictures were gone by next visit.