Auditing Services

Different types of audits serve different business purposes, therefore can be conducted in different ways. Sometimes a compliance approach is taken, 100% checking that requirements have been met. Maybe a sampling methodology is adopted in order to enable the auditor to cover a wider scope (such as a full business management system).

Audits are usually conducted against one or more of the following types of criteria:

• An organisations own defined processes and procedures
• A management standard, or multiple management standards
• Codes of Practice
• Regulations
• Legislation
• Industry Standards
• Contracts
• Client Standards or other requirements

Our clients often ask us to conduct their audits for them on a regular basis, for a number of reasons:

• We are a “Fresh set of eyes” providing valuable feedback for continual improvement
• Often things can be missed or overlooked when audits are conducted by people who are too familiar with the business and its processes
• Sometimes people are not comfortable raising issues when it relates to work undertaken by their colleagues, who they need to work with every day
• They do not have a competent auditor within their business to conduct the audits
• Scheduled audits are consistently falling behind schedule: and/or
• They would just rather focus on running the business
• We can manage and effectively implement your organisations ongoing audit schedule

The main types of Auditing Services ISO CERTIFICATION LIMITED provides are:

First Party or Internal Audits: These could be for the purpose of general continuous improvement, against your organisations defined requirements. They could also be part of your ongoing management system implementation requirements for your certification to one or more management system standards. We can conduct these on an ad hoc basis, or on a regular schedule (for example, monthly or quarterly).

Second Party Audits: 

These could be to verify that an interested party (for example, a subcontractor) is working in accordance with the contract arrangements to provide the specified services.

We can conduct these for the duration of a contact, on an ad hoc basis, or on a regular schedule (for example, monthly or quarterly)

Compliance Audits
We can conduct your site safety and environmental inspections, ensuring your organisation is meeting “best practice” and compliance requirements for your type of workplace.