Auditing Standard Revision
I attended Gary Johnson's session on the joint quality and environmental auditing standard - ISO 19011:2002. Because of some shortcomings in this standard - it was written mostly for third party registration users - the USA developed a supplement for application to internal auditing and supplier auditing. The supplement was published in 2004 and is quite popular, here in the USA and around the world.
We were asked to include occupational health and safety auditing in our supplement a few years ago. The USA committees have been meeting over the last year and we now have a revised USA supplement approved and being printed. Gary thinks the new edition will be available for purchase in June or July at the latest.
The USA supplement will continue to have the full text of the approved (2002 edition) ISO 19011 standard, along with the additional guidance. The number will be ISO/ANSI/ASQ 19011S:2008. (wheew!)
This will be the first (known) auditing standard to integrate quality, environment, and safety management systems. It will, of course, be used for the revision of the baseline ISO 19011 standard, which just started the review cycle.
Dennis Arter
