3. How to carry out a professional audit?
When the audit team is put together by the audit program manager, an audit manager is appointed, who will be responsible for carrying out the audit.
An audit consists of six main phases:
triggering the audit ;
preparation of audit activities ;
audit activities ;
preparation and distribution of the audit report ;
closing the audit ;
audit follow-up.
Depending on the objectives and scope of the audit, the content of each of these phases will be more or less extensive.
3.1 Triggering the audit
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Reference standards
ISO 19011 – Guidelines for auditing management systems – July 2018
ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 – Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems — Part 1: Requirements – Reviewed and validated in 2020.
Glossary (source: ISO 19011 and ISO 9000)
Audit
A methodical, independent and documented process for obtaining objective evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria have been met.
Audit findings
Results of assessment of audit evidence collected, against audit criteria.
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