White Paper: Six Steps to Plan and Conduct a Management System Audit

Are you starting out as an auditor of quality management systems? Or perhaps of environmental management systems? How about food safety management systems? If so, you would probably have the feeling that you do not know where to start with your audit.The good news is that there is a method for auditing management systems that reflects best practices in the world. All auditors should follow this method every time they perform an audit. No matter if they are internal auditors of a small business, supplier auditors, or auditors of a certification body. For each case, the extent and formality of tasks vary. As a general rule, for first-party audits the process could be less formal than for third-party audits