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A Guide to Effective Internal Management System Audits : Implementing Internal Audits As a Risk Management Tool
ISBN: 9781849285605
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / IT Governance Ltd
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Business/ Management;

Are your internal audits adding value?

Organizations hoping to comply with any of the International Standards for management systems (e.g. ISO9001, ISO27001) must carry out internal audits. However, the requirements set down by accreditation bodies for auditor courses make little distinction between internal and external audit programs. As a result, many organizations instruct their internal auditors using resources designed for external auditors. Such internal audit programs often fail to develop beyond simple compliance monitoring, and risk becoming 'box-ticking' exercises, adding little value to the organization.

Transform your internal audits and improve your systems

A Guide to Effective Internal Management System Audits provides a model for the management and implementation of internal audits that moves beyond simple compliance to ISO requirements and turns the internal audit into a transformational tool that the organization can use to assist with the management of risk, and implement improvements to management systems.

This book shows you how you can transform your internal auditing process to become a tool for development and continual improvement in your management systems.

Start adding value to your internal auditing program.

Andrew W Nichols has more than 25 years of experience of management systems, in both the UK and the USA. As a trainer, he has delivered hundreds of ISO9000 related courses to audiences ranging from shop-floor personnel to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. He has also led and contributed to the development of 'best in class' training courses for a number of international standards. Andy is a regular contributor to the well-known Elsmar Cove internet forum for management systems.

Andrew (Andy) W Nichols, CQP FCQI, has more than 30 years' experience of management systems. As the quality manager of a UK-based NATO contractor, he was responsible for developing a quality assurance program to meet the AQAP 1 Quality Assurance requirements, when supplying communications equipment (hardware and software) to the SHAPE organization.

Andy has held certifications with the International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) and the RABQSA (now Exemplar Global) as a lead auditor of QMSs. He is a fellow of the UK's Chartered Quality Institute and has been a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).