Provides the fundamental knowledge needed for auditing management systems and has been expanded to reflect modern thinking and the intricacies of auditing multiple management system standards (MSS).
It has been designed to help organizations optimize and facilitate the integration of their management systems and, in facilitating a single audit, streamlines the audit processes whilst reducing the duplication of effort and disruption of multiple units being audited.
This single document provides the critical tools to help you make the right decisions when planning, conductions and evaluating audits. It allows users to:
• Gain a clear explanation of the principles of management systems auditing
• Learn how to conduct and assess internal or external audits
• Obtain guidance on the management of audit programmes
• Reduce paperwork and the need to brief multiple audit teams
• Self-declare in a recognizable way
• Tailor approach appropriately depending on; the size/level of maturity of different management systems
• Streamline the audit management process, from objectives to analysis