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3 Examples of a Corrective Action Plan

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A corrective action plan is a set of actions to correct an issue, problem, non-compliance or underperformance. It is essentially a plan to improve performance and/or reduce risk. The following are illustrative examples.

Audit

It is common for an audit to produce a corrective action plan that identifies steps to correct non-conformances to a standard, principle or practice. In the example below, an information security audit has identified several poor practices and vulnerabilities. The corrective action plan maps out a path to improve information security.
corrective action plan audit example simplicableThe example above excludes relatively obvious information such as a target date and accountable person for each action.

Incidents & Problems

A corrective action plan is often developed in response to an incident or failure. This process begins with a root cause analysis that identifies underlying problems that represent a risk of future incidents. The following example is a corrective action plan produced in response to an outage of a software platform.
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Employee Performance

An employee who receives a poor performance review may be given the chance to improve by establishing a corrective action plan that sets expectations for what is required to get back to satisfactory performance.
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The actions in an employee corrective action plan are similar to regular performance objectives in that they are typically designed to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
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