More about Internal Audit

Pre-Audit: Audit scope identify
The scope of an audit relates to what will actually be audited. It is the extent and range of a given audit and could include:
• Organizational process, activities an product.
• Organization units, departments and work environments
• Group of people
• Physical locations
• Documentation

Pre-Audit: Audit team selected
• Management responsibilities
• An auditor is a person qualified and competent to conduct audits. (Training,Independent, appropriate knowledge of activity being audited)

Pre-Audit: Initial Audit planning meeting
• Prior to the commencement of the audit, a range of information needs to be discussed and confirmed with the auditee.
• Factor to consider in initial contacts with auditee.

• Objective, scope, criteria, feasibility
• Availability, timing, Timetable.
• Auditee Contacts, audit team, resource
• Approach, documentation required.
• Previous audit results, outstanding Non-conformance.

Audit Plan: Timetable
Factor to consider:
• Process and Activities sequences/complexity of process/product.
• Important of activity risk/need for competency
• Infrastructure and Organizational layout.
• Work start/finish times.
• Physical locations
• Employee numbers
• Documentation;Number of procedures/Relevance to ISO 9001
• Schedule meetings with auditee/audit team

Pre-Audit: Documentation submitted and circulated to audit team

• Manual
• Documented Procedure
• Process maps
• Previous NCR/CAF