by Dominic Parry | Feb 25, 2014
Here is a free template for things that you should include in an auditing closing meeting. Thank the auditees for their time Thank them for allowing you to audit them Remind the auditees of the reason for the audit Remind the auditees of the standard that you...
by Dominic Parry | Oct 25, 2012
When people talk about good auditing technique it is easy to immediately start covering how to ask questions, how to deal with people and how to make notes. Whilst this is all true, it is easy to forget that there are 4 stages to the audit process and good auditing...
by Dominic Parry | Sep 4, 2012
When non-conformities are raised during audits a sequence of events needs to follow afterwards in order to deal with the non-conformity correctly. This post highlights the main process that good auditors should use, as well as highlighting any potential problem...
by Dominic Parry | Mar 30, 2012
Many auditors audit by going into areas, finding things that they don’t like and then announcing their non-conformities at a closing meeting at the end of the audit. This is somewhat of an old-fashioned way of auditing and whilst it may be the way audits have...
by Dominic Parry | Feb 28, 2012
When you are auditing you will often find non-conformities. These occur when the department, process or organisation that you are auditing is not following a requirement of the standard that you are auditing against. For many of you who perform audits in the...