Improving Quality Through Layered Process Audit Layered process audits have long been established in the automotive industry, but they can also play a key role in improving quality standards across a range of other sectors, says Ravindiran Gurusamy, an IRCA Certificated Associate Auditor. Of the four key goals driving quality management systems in the automotive …
ISO Audit: Having the right motivation and proactively identifying opportunities for improvement are key, says Jessen Yeoh CQP MCQI, IRCA Principal Auditor, and Principal Advisor at P Excel Advisory. Do your auditees feel that you, as the auditor, add value to their work? Do they request you to audit them again in the future, and …
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Remote Audit During Pandemic covid for all ISO Sharon Shutler, CQP FCQI, shares her advice and guidance to help auditors carry out remote audits amid the coronavirus pandemic. In these uncertain times of the Covid-19 pandemic, I am sure many of us are experiencing moments of anxiety and despair. I had such a moment when …
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Impact of Covid 19 on Management System Audit The CQI|IRCA shares advice and guidance available to help auditors with conducting successful audits amid the coronavirus pandemic. IRCA certificated management systems auditors may be affected for a considerable time, as organisations put stringent rules in place to cope with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The CQI|IRCA has shared guidance …
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Effective Decision-Making Through Evidence-Based Approach Ravindiran Gurusamy, IRCA Certificated Associate Auditor, offers an overview of how evidence-based decision-making can play a vital role in quality management and decision-making. Facts, evidence and data analysis can support objectivity and confidence in decision-making – but how does evidence-based decision-making really benefit organisations and audit professionals? For a start, …
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Third-Party Food Safety Certification Auditing Marie-Claude Quentin, Senior Technical Manager at the Global Food Safety Initiative, explains how it is troubleshooting issues of trust in auditing and certification processes. With sudden and significant disruptions in the audit processes during the pandemic, third-party food safety certification has faced one of its most challenging times. However, this period of disruption has served to highlight the significant and increasing threats that …
Effective Audit Management Through Cloud Based System Improvement, Innovation and Effectiveness Lead Tracey Brailsford at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust explains how a cloud-based system is helping senior leadership and frontline staff learn from performance and continually improve services for patients. When Tracey Brailsford joined Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust in 2015, the organisation’s clinical …
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Third-Party Audits During Pandemic of ISO 9001 Damien Tiller, CQP MCQI, IRCA Lead PQMS and QMS Auditor, highlights the way the SOC® Service Organizations: Trust Services Criteria Report could overcome the difficulties inherent in remote auditing. Many organisations have switched to remote audits during their vendor selection and due-diligence auditing phase. For some organisations, especially …
Strategic To Improve Audit Quality Hadi El Cheikh, Quality Health and Safety Executive at Veolia Water Technologies, Middle East, explains how a strategic approach can lead to a more successful audit on the assessment day. Most of us will still remember the times when the third-party auditor(s) came and met the quality management representative to …
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Quality Policy for Effective Auditing in ISO 9001:2015 Andrew Holt examines how ISO 9001:2015 sets out the development and communication of the quality policy and what this means for auditors. It is in sub-clause 5.2.1 of ISO 9001:2015 that sets out the requirements of top management in respect of the organisation’s quality policy. Top management …
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