My Reading on ASQ CQA HB Part I-IA~IE-s

Part IC
Audit Requirements
Audits of programs (such as quality or environmental programs) normally require reference standards against
which to judge the adequacy of the plans. These are normally external documents that may include:
• National and international standards
• Customer and corporate specifications
• Contract and customer requirements
• Local and national statutes and regulations
• Industry codes and standards
• Guides, handbooks, and so on
Standards, codes, and regulations . . . are issued by related industrial or professional associations, by national
standards writing organizations concerned with the intended market place, by local/state/national legislative
bodies and by international bodies.
Question:
Customer and corporate specifications; do these include company quality manual and alike?
Answer: See keyword; ―external document‖
Keywords:
external documents
Customer and corporate
specifications, do these
include company quality
manual and alike?
Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang