A contradictory assessment standards set by a certification body
(Mar.4W,2006)

On the website of Certification body T I found six standards for assessments. I read them and found contradictions among them and can easily imagine confused assessment scenes done by the body. The six standards are as follows and my comments are shown in parenthesis.
1.「An assessor and auditee are on equal terms」
 

(The most important thing is fair assessment.)

 

2.「As professional assessors of us will provide professional assessment services」
  (The key point is not professional, but what kind of profession a assessor can provide. Is he or she professional for making heavy documentation? Someone will be easy to force audtee to make wasteful works on the name of profession. In fact so called veteran assessors tend to do false assessments.)

 

3.「Assessment by using easy technical words」
  ・Avoiding difficult technical terms

(What are difficult words? If the body or assessors introduce new words it means the body and assessors interpret the Standards in their own way.)

・Avoiding assessment sequence as the Standards

(The Standards are based on PDCA cycle. So the sequence of the Standards has significant meaning. To neglect the concept will lead to assessments by interpretation of their own way.)


4.「Do conformity assessment and no nonconformity by assessors’ personal opinions」
 

(This declaration runs in clear contradiction to the declaration 3. above)


5.「” Healthy criticism” based on the third party position」
  (What kind of criticism is healthy is not clear. Conformity assessment by the third party is not criticism.)

 

6.「Provide an opportunity to enhance auditee’s merits」
 

(It means added-value assessment and directly contradict with the declaration in 4 ( refer to ‘Still stick to “value-added assessment :Apr.3w, 2004’ and “Assessment is improvement? : Jan.4w, 2005” in Scenes of assessment corner on this web-site).