Aviation Regulatory Requirements
Standards for Auditors
Documentation
Terms and Definitions
Acronyms
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This organization promotes safe and orderly development of international civil aviation.
What is ICAO?
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This audit is the global benchmark for safety management in airlines.
What is IOSA?
10
These Documents provide consistent information, both internally and externally, about the organization’s quality management system.
What are Quality Manuals?
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The fulfilment of a requirement.
What is Conformity?
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This organization is called CAAT.
What is the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand?
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These organizations have responsibility to oversee and enforce regulations in areas pertaining to aviation safety and use of airspace.
What are National Civil Aviation Authorities?
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These activities provide valuable information in between scheduled audits.
What is an inspection?
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These Documents provide objective evidence of activities performed or results achieved.
What are records?
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The records, statements of fact or other information which are relevant to the audit criteria and verifiable.
What is Audit evidence?
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SOP is the acronym for this term.
What is a Standard Operating Procedure?
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The ICAO term defined as the uniform application is recognized as necessary for the safety or regularity of international air navigation.
What is a Standard?
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This type of audit is conducted by an organization of its own functions or activities.
What is an Internal Audit?
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These procedures ensure necessary, accurate and up-to-date documents are available to those personnel required to use them.
What are Document Control Procedures?
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The set of policies, procedures or requirements used as a reference against which audit evidence is compared
What is Audit criteria?
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ISO is the acronym a term that is defined as an independent, non-governmental, international organization.
What is the International Organization for Standardization?
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According to EASA, these are planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that operational and maintenance management practices comply with relevant requirements.
What is Compliance monitoring and Quality Assurance?
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These standards provide guidance and tools for companies and organizations who want to ensure that their products and services consistently meet customer’s requirements, and that quality is consistently improved.
What is ISO 9000?
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These Documents describe how the quality management system is applied to a specific product, project or contract.
What are Quality Plans?
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A systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled.
What is an audit?
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ISARPS is the acronym for this term.
IOSA Standards and Recommended Practices
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Requirements to collaborate in securing the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures and organization.
What is ICAO Chicago Convention Article 37?
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This program aims to improve safety and cut airline costs by drastically reducing ground accidents and injuries
What is the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO)?
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These Documents provide information about how to perform activities and processes consistently.
What are work instructions and drawings?
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A set of interrelated or interacting elements to establish necessary processes to ensure policies are followed and objectives are achieved.
What is a Quality Management System?
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MTOW is the acronym for this term.
What is Maximum Takeoff Weight?