Corrective action
PAS 55-1:2008, Asset Management: Part 1: Specification for the optimized management of physical assets, written by the Institute of Asset Management, and published by BSi in September 2008, defines corrective action as: ‘action to eliminate the cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation NOTE 1 There can be more than one cause for a nonconformity. NOTE 2 Corrective action is taken to reinstate capability and/or prevent recurrence, whereas preventive action is taken to prevent occurrence in the first place. [BS EN ISO9000:2005, 3.6.5]’
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