Which of the following subjects should an auditor discuss when communicating with the auditee's top management?

• A. The quality policy
• B. Internal audit
• C. Both A and B

ABC is a worldwide fast-food organisation. One of the branches, in downtown Cape Town, decided to implement an ISO 9001 quality management system and you are the audit team leader (with two other auditors) that will carry out the certification audits, Stage 2.
ABC receive the orders by phone or internet; some of the employees deliver the ordered food to indicated addresses. The normal menu includes 15 different types of hamburgers; however, in the last two weeks, due to a shortage of a special type of meat, they can only prepare six of the 15 varieties.
During the internal meeting of the audit team, you ask one of the auditors to describe what she has observed. She audited the reception of orders from customers (via phone or internet) and the communication of the orders to the kitchen. She noticed that the menu offering food on the website is still the normal one, with 15 different hamburgers, and during a 30-minute period, she observed many customers reluctantly accepting something other than the hamburger they preferred.
You, as audit team leader, inform the Quality Manager of your concern about the major nonconformity, since you consider this a serious breach of the basic principles of quality that lasted two weeks without action being taken.
Right at the beginning of the Closing meeting, you discuss the nonconformity with the General Manager.
She got quite upset and said she was going to make a complaint to the certification body and left the room; the Quality Manager was the only member of ABC left with the audit team. The Quality Manager said the General Manager would not come back to the meeting.
What would you do? Choose the best from the following options:

• A. Inform the Quality Manager that the certification process is put on hold and leave the room.
• B. Ask the Quality Manager for a break to discuss the issue with the members of the audit team.
• C. Inform the Quality Manager that you consider the meeting closed, and that you will report to the Certification Body for instructions.
• D. Ask the Quality Manager to listen to the nonconformity the auditor will present and continue with the meeting until its closure.

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You have been just hired as the Internal Lead Auditor of a large organisation, responsible for internal audits.
Your first job is to analyse the answers to nonconformities included in the report of a recent internal audit to Top Management.
The report contained one nonconformity as follows:
There is no evidence of Top Management ensuring the availability of resources to operate the QMS, the establishment of objectives, the promotion of continual improvement, and the promoting of the process approach.
Which four of the following Top Management actions can be considered ' corrections to the nonconformity ' ?

• A. Top Management appoints a senior manager to oversee the quality manangement system
• B. Resources have been provided
• C. Top Management review will be carried out every six months instead of annually
• D. Objectives have been established
• E. Process approach has been communicated to the personnel
• F. Improvement action has been promoted
• G. Top Management completed a course on ISO 9001
• H. All these actions will be reviewed during the Top Management meetings

Scenario 6: Davis Clinic (DC) is an American medical center focused on integrated health care. Since its establishment DC was committed to providing qualitative services for its clients, which is the reason why the company decided to implement a quality management system (QMS) based on ISO 9001. After a year of having an active QMS in place, DC applied for a certification audit.
A team of five auditors, from a well-known certification body, was selected to conduct the audit. Eva was appointed as the audit team leader. After three days of auditing, the team gathered to review and examine their findings. They also discussed the audit findings with DC ' s top management and then drafted the audit conclusions.
In the closing meeting, which was held between the audit team and the top management of DC. Eva presented two nonconformities that were detected during the audit. Eva stated that the company did not retain documented information regarding its outsourced services for an analysis laboratory and regarding the conducted management reviews. During the closing meeting, the audit team required from DCs top management to come up with corrective action plans within two weeks. Although the top management did not agree with the audit findings, the audit team insisted that the auditee must submit corrective actions within the given time frame in order for the audit activities to continue.
Once the action plans were evaluated, the audit team began preparing the audit report. Eva required from the team to provide accurate descriptions of the audit findings and the audit conclusions. The report was then distributed to all the interested parties involved in the audit, including the certification body Based on the report, the certification body together with Eva, as the audit team leader, made the certification decision.
Based on the scenario above, answer the following question:
Why is it important to discuss the audit findings with DC's top management prior to the closing meeting and the submission of the final audit report?

• A. To identify the persons responsible for the nonconformities
• B. To encourage the implementation of corrective actions as soon as possible
• C. To verify whether the audit objectives have been met