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title: "CAPA"
description: "Corrective and preventive action, the output of an incident review."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/capa
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
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# CAPA

Corrective and preventive action, the output of an incident review. The corrective action fixes this instance; the preventive action stops the class of failure recurring across the fleet, typically as a regression eval, a policy change and a risk-register update, verified before the incident closes [1].

- Developed in: [ch. 17, CAPA: from incident to risk register and eval suite](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/incidents#capa-from-incident-to-risk-register-and-eval-suite)
- Chapters: [ch. 17, Incidents](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/incidents)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-capa

## Sources

[1] ISO/IEC 42001:2023, AI management systems (referenced by identifier only; requirements for an AI management system; clause 10.2 nonconformity and corrective action). ISO/IEC. 2023. https://www.iso.org/standard/81230.html (verified: secondary)