Glossary of Compliance
Compliance Glossary
Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.
Surveillance Visit
The primary purpose of the surveillance visits is for the certification body to assert whether your management system really works in everyday operations or not. It will focus on prospects that the certification audit wasn’t able to check: for instance, whether all the incidents are recorded, whether all corrective and preventive actions are properly recorded and implemented, whether all the measurements are made, whether the top management really supports and cares about the system, etc.
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