1. Company K
Company K had certification of ISO14001: 1996 and recently finished
the assessment of ISO14001:2004. Assessors’ comments and corresponding
actions taken by Company K are shown in the below table. Three nonconformities
are not accepted.
No. |
ISO No, |
Nonconformities |
Actions |
|
1 |
4.3.2 |
Waste Disposal Law is not specified. |
Waste Disposal Law is abbreviation of Waste Disposal and Clean
Law. We have already specified the law in 1996 version. |
|
2 |
4.4.6 |
Procedures for effluent treatment do not include for general
effluent and industrial waste. |
Those treatments are done accredited company. So the procedures
for treatments are unnecessary as defined in the manual of 1996
version. |
|
3 |
4.6 |
No input information such as evaluation of compliance with
relevant laws and changing circumstances. |
As like 1996 version, evaluation of compliance with relevant
laws is done within internal audit. As for changing circumstances,
monthly reports are submitted to the top-management.Those names
of documents are listed in the management review record. |
2. Company A
Company A was requested its customer to get ISO14001:2004.
So the company challenged to get the certification with a single manual
of twenty pages.
The company was lucky to have a good assessor and the fair assessment
was done.
He highly praised their system as very simple and systematic with
the single manual.
At the final assessment no nonconformity was found.
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