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QMS Audits
Internal Quality System Audits verify that activities are carried out in accordance with the QMS, and that the QMS continues to meet the needs of the business and the requirements of ISO:9001. Effective audits by competent auditors which are taken seriously by management are the key to ensuring that your Quality Management System remains ‘alive’ and delivers the full benefits for your business.
There are two principal objectives of a Quality System Audit:
1. To ensure the QMS, as documented, meets the requirements of ISO:9001. Many businesses blindly assume that this is so. However, this may not well be true. There is little point in ensuring that everyone is following a QMS if it does not meet the requirements of ISO:9001.
2. To ensure that the QMS is understood and followed by everyone.
They also provide one of the best opportunities for analysing your QMS to identify ways in which it can be improved. You might identify procedures which enable you to control your business better. Alternatively you might identify existing inspection and test activities which could be replaced by improved control of the underlying process.
Internal quality audits are taken very seriously by the certification bodies during external audits. The effectiveness of the internal auditing system usually provides a barometer of how committed the organisation is to its Quality Management System. Well-performed audits with a rapid response to deficiencies generally indicate an effective and widely respected QMS which is actively working to improve business performance.
Please contact a member of our team for more information.