Corrective Action
What is Corrective Action?
Action taken to eliminate the root cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation, preventing its recurrence. A key concept in ISO management systems.
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Requirements naming corrective action across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Stakeholders receive help to identify, start and track corrective actions that deal with anomalies: management's responses, options and recommendations on issues and significant deviations are reviewed;
cobit-2019::MEA01.05 · MEA01.05 Ensure the implementation of corrective actions →The FBO monitors its hygiene procedures and practices in the way the business and the hazard call for, defining methods, responsible people, frequency and any sampling, and the records to keep, at a frequency that keeps the process consistently under control.
codex-general-principles-of-food-hygiene-cxc-1-1969-rev-2022::13.1.4 · 13.1.4 Monitoring and corrective action for GHPs →An owner or operator seeking a permit to treat, store or dispose of hazardous waste must institute corrective action as necessary to protect human health and the environment for all releases of hazardous waste or constituents from any solid waste management un...
epa-rcra-hazardous-waste-management::264.101 · § 264.101 Corrective action for solid waste management units →Appropriate control or action limits must be defined for environmental monitoring, with documented corrective action when a result fails a limit or when results trend upwards towards one.
brcgs-global-standard-for-food-safety-issue-9::4.11.8.2 · 4.11.8.2 Control and action limits with documented corrective action on failures and upward trends →When a nonconformity arises the organization responds: it acts to contain and correct it and deals with what follows from it, as applicable;
iso-22000-2018::10.1 · Nonconformity and corrective action →Guidance to find chances to improve and to act on them so the BCMS delivers what it is meant to.
iso-22313-2020-guidance-on-business-continuity-management-systems::10.1.1 · 10.1.1 Nonconformity and corrective action: general →Questions people ask about corrective action
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