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Document Owner: Christine Nesbitt Issue Date:19-Apr-2015
Revision Date: 18-Mar-2019

*To be used for audits conducted on or after 17-Jun-2019*

1.0 PURPOSE:

Defines criteria for length of accreditation. The Accreditation Length and Merit
Program awards an extended accreditation period.

2.0 SCOPE

This procedure applies to all audits with the exception of the Materials Testing
Laboratories (MTL) Task Group, the Aerospace Quality System (AQS) Task
Group, and Subscriber Option B audits.

3.0 DEFINITIONS

See OP 1103 Definitions.

4.0 PROCEDURE

4.1 The accreditation period shall be determined for each accreditation audit and
documented in eAuditNet.

4.1.1 Initial audits shall have an accreditation period of 12 months from the first
quarter in which it is eligible for review (refer to OP 1106 Audit Report
Processing for method to determine eligibility quarter).

4.1.2 The first reaccreditation audit shall have an accreditation period of 12 months
from the previous expiration.

4.1.3 Audits are eligible for Merit at the second reaccreditation audit.

4.2 To be eligible for an 18 month accreditation period, the audit must meet the
following criteria:

• Be at least the second reaccreditation audit in the commodity

• No Non-Sustaining Corrective Actions identified on current or previous
accreditation audit or on any Add Scope audit between the current and
previous accreditation audit
• No Verification of Corrective Action (VCA) audits as a result of current or
previous accreditation audit
• No Special Process Escapes (Product Escapes) identified by the auditor
or Type P or C Auditee Advisories (see OP 1109 Auditee Advisories)
issued by that Task Group since the start of the previous accreditation
audit
• No more than 14 Days of Cumulative Delinquency
• No more than 50% of major and 60% of total NCRs* allowed for Mode B
reaccreditation audit failure criteria in OP 1110 Audit Failure and Risk
Mitigation. (See Annex A.)

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• Any other reason not addressed above, and defined by the Task Group in
their OP 1114 Task Group Operation Appendix or documented in the audit
merit screen and approved by quorum during Task Group Review.

* Where the percentage of major and total NCRs is not a whole number, the
value shall be rounded up.

4.3 To be eligible for a 24 month accreditation, the audit must meet the following
criteria in addition to 4.2:

• Previous two consecutive accreditations in the commodity must have been

a minimum of 18 months each
• No Major NCRs
• No more than 7 Days of Cumulative Delinquency
• Any other reason not addressed above, and defined by the Task Group in
their OP 1114 Task Group Operation Appendix or documented in the audit
merit screen and approved by quorum during Task Group Review.

4.4 Main and satellite facilities shall all be given the shortest accreditation length
achieved by any of the facilities.

4.4.1 Where the only reason a satellite audit has not achieved merit is due to not
being at least the second reaccreditation audit in the commodity, the main
and satellite facilities shall be given the accreditation length achieved by the
main facility.

5.0 DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY

Revision Summary
Date
19-Apr-2015 New Procedure – Transitioned from NOP-008
27-Apr-2015 Revised Annex B NCR numbers based on change to OP
1110 Mode B failure criteria
29-Mar-2016 Revised Annex B NCR numbers based on change to OP
1110 Mode B failure criteria
14-Nov-2016 Changed document owner
21-Dec-2017 Removed Table 1 and Annex A due to redundancy.
Clarified paragraphs 4.2 and 4.3. Removed 4.7 per 2017
IA OBS9; Removed Section 5.0 and added procedure
names in sections 3.0, 4.1.4.1 and 4.2; Updated Annex B
and renamed to Annex A after removing original Annex A
15-Mar-2018 Annual Mode B Failure Criteria Update (Annex A).
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Revision Summary
Date
18-Mar-2019 Document transition activity; Even year review; changed
title to include accreditation length; removed reduced
scope from Purpose; removed general requirements
section; added OP 1114 App and quorum to ‘any other
reason’ bullet; removed statement that Delegated audit
reviewer may grant merit; removed note on special
process escapes; removed all deviations statement;
Updated Annex A criteria; changed document name
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ANNEX A
NCR Limitations for Merit

Task Merit
Group NCRs per Audit Day
CP # of NCRs per Audit Day
1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 2 2 3 3
Total 2 4 6 8 8

COMP # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 3
Total 2 3 5 6 8

CMSP # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 2
Total 2 4 5 5 5

CT # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 2 2 3 3
Total 3 5 6 8 10

ETG # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 3 4
Total 2 4 6 8 9

FLU # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 2 3 3 3
Total 2 4 6 8 9

HT # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 2
Total 2 3 5 6 6

M&I # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 3
Total 2 5 7 9 11

NDT # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 3
Total 2 4 6 8 9

6 7 8 9 10
Majors 3 4 4 5 5
Total 11 13 15 17 18
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Task Merit
Group NCRs per Audit Day
NMMM # of NCRs per Audit Day
1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 1 1 1
Total 2 3 3 5 6

NMMT # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 1 1 -
Total 2 2 3 5 -

NM and # of NCRs per Audit Day

SE 1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 2
Total 2 3 5 5 5

SEALS # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors - 2 4 - -
Total - 4 6 - -

SLT # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 2 2 - - -
Total 4 6 - - -

WLD # of NCRs per Audit Day

1 2 3 4 5
Majors 1 1 2 2 2
Total 2 3 4 4 4

NOTE: The criteria in this table are based on Table 1 of OP 1110 Audit Failure and Risk
Mitigation. If there are any discrepancies between this Annex and Table 1 of OP 1110
Audit Failure and Risk Mitigation, OP 1110 Audit Failure and Risk Mitigation shall take
precedence. Any changes to Table 1 in OP 1110 Audit Failure and Risk Mitigation may
be updated in this Annex as editorial changes.