{"id":28892,"date":"2023-07-13T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=28892"},"modified":"2023-07-13T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:03:10","slug":"zombie-auditing-bsi-system-suddenly-closes-nonconformities-from-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/zombie-auditing-bsi-system-suddenly-closes-nonconformities-from-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Auditing: BSI System Suddenly Closes Nonconformities from 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what appears to be a significant glitch, clients from BSI &#8212; the largest ISO certification body in the world &#8212; are receiving automated messages indicating that findings from audits that were performed years ago have suddenly been accepted and closed.<\/p>\n<p>In one case, a nonconformity written by BSI in 2018 was suddenly reported as closed, despite the fact that the client had transferred to another certification body that same year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear what caused the glitch, nor how many companies are affected, but current and former BSI clients should watch out for the emails and realize that their certifications are <em><strong>not<\/strong> <\/em>at risk if they fail to reply.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is at least a slight step up for BSI, which was revealed to be pressing its auditors to find a minimum number of ISO 9001 nonconformities for each client as a corporate financial metric. Oxebridge previously filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/bsi-imposed-nonconformance-quotas-to-improve-financial-performance\/\">complaints<\/a> against the practice, reminding BSI that audit findings must be based on objective evidence and not the annual sales goals for the certification body, but BSI arbitrarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/in-anonymous-email-bsi-closes-nonconformity-quota-complaint-ignores-evidence\/\">closed the issue<\/a> without providing any rationale. This was then escalated to UKAS and the IAQG, both of whom also ignored it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSI&#8217;s system is sending updates on corrective action plans for audit findings reported years ago.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":28893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-28892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bsi","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28894,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28892\/revisions\/28894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}