Wednesday, 6 March 2013

WHAT IS AN ISO AUDIT?

WHAT IS AN ISO AUDIT?

Audits are basically of two types: internal audit, which is conducted to examine whether your organization conforms to the required quality standards effectively and if there are any rooms for further improvements; and external audit which is conducted by an outside body such as a registrar or a customer to verify the necessary requirements for certification.

The ISO Audit Checklist is the most important and the most essential part of the ISO certification processes that efficiently prepares the staff for the actual audit procedures. It saves your valuable time by streamlining your compliance with the ISO standards for quality management system.
The ISO audit checklists are prepared by our expert and experienced auditors with a view to providing your staff and auditors complete practical information related with all the steps of the actual ISO audit processes. It is very likely that the internal auditors of your company are not familiar with the actual procedures and may not possess the skill required to match with the skill of the professional auditors of the registrar.  ISO audit checklists will help your auditors obtain necessary skill along with required information and make them aware of the actual procedures involved, make them familiar with the different tools used and other related information to the processes of certification.
It is actually the external audit performed by the registrar who issues the ISO certificate which is crucial. The ISO audit checklist helps you prepare for the external audit with the help and our expert guidance of which you can successfully complete all the procedures. With the help of ISO audit checklist, you can improve the quality and functioning of your organization to a great extent.

THE ISO AUDIT CHECKLIST:

The professional auditors too depend largely on the ISO audit checklist as it helps in tracking, and verifying the progress made by an organization before, after and during the entire certification procedure. The ISO audit checklist serves as the primary source of the organization’s total quality management system with the help of which the auditors carry out the process of assessment. It is the baseline upon which the assessment and the performance of the organization depend and hence it is the most vital part. Prepared ISO audit checklist in 2 parts.
  • ISO requirement wise audit checklist
  • Company area( Department wise audit checklist) We had prepared ISO audit checklist for all the related standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, BRC, HACCP, ISO 22000, ISO 27001, ISO/IEC 17025, FAMI-QS etc.
It is always advisable to maintain as far less records of your quality system as possible as it helps avoid unnecessary documentation of the same. All the types of organizations need not supply all the information in each of the columns mentioned in the forms. The non-applicable records may not be kept depending upon the type of firm under assessment, but it must be ensured that they are mentioned against the appropriate columns in the forms.
With the help of the ISO audit checklists, you can start documentation of records of your quality system, as documentation is a vital part of the certification process. There are quite a few document s required to be presented during the process, like the ISO Quality Manual, Records Control, Responsibility of the Management, Human Resource, Measuring the Improvements, its analysis, its progress, etc.
With the help of ISO audit checklist, you can perform much better in the actual assessment process for ISO certification. For further queries regarding the complete audit checklist, kindly contact our executives.

ISO:9001, ISO:14001, OHSAS:18001 IMS Management Standard Procedures templates (17 Procedures) Document Kit covers sample copy of procedures covering clause wise details for how qms, ems, ohsas systems are implemented. The list of iso 9001 14001 and ohsas 18001 integrated management system sample procedures provided is as below.
  • Identification Of Environmental Aspects, OHS Hazards And Its Environmental Impacts And Risk Assessment
  • Identification Of Legal And Other Requirements
  • Objectives And Targets
  • EHSMP
  • Consultation And Communication
  • Operational Control
  • Emergency Preparedness Response
  • Monitoring And Measurement
  • Accidents, Incidents, Non-Conformance, Corrective And Preventive Action
  • Control Of Non-Conforming Products
  • Management Review
  • Document And Data Control
  • Control of Records
  • Internal Audit
  • Training
  • Corrective And Preventive Action
  • Control Of Monitoring And Measuring Equipment

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