Why Outsource ISO 14001 Internal Audits to Assent
Assent Risk Management has competent ISO 14001 internal auditors with years of experience who can impartially audit your organisation to find non-conformances, weaknesses and improvements in your ISO 14001 Environmental management system.
Our internal auditors are on your side and work sensitively with you and your team. However, while that is the case, we will also prepare you for your certification audits and highlight any areas that might come up in the external audit.
Industry Leading Internal Audit Reports & Analysis
Our internal audit reports are tried and tested, having been through external audits and refined over many years. We continually seek feedback from auditors and clients to make them even better.
Every ISO 14001 audit programme we manage is compliant with ISO 19011 the standard for auditing management systems, which is evidenced within the audit report so you know you are receiving an industry leading audit.
Clients that Trust Us for ISO 14001 Internal Audits
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about ISO 14001
Management system standards are aligned to Annex SL which has a requirement for you to internally check the performance of your management system in clause 9.2 “Internal Audits”.
Auditors must be competent in the ISO 14001 standard, environmental matters, while also being impartial from the processes they are auditing. So outsourcing these audits to Assent makes perfect sense.
Internal audits vary in cost depending on the complexity of your management system, the extent of your environmental aspects & impacts, number of staff, number of locations, number of integrated standards and so on.
A basic audit of a system can be as little as 2 days, at around £1,400 in total.
We don’t consider internal audits a pass or fail exercise, however there might be findings or nonconformances that are raised.
This is not a problem, we can discuss with you what the issue is and help you apply a corrective action.
Yes, if you are already doing internal audits and have a schedule in place, we can pick this up no problem. However we will review the programme against ISO 19011 requirements to make sure it is compliant, and we may suggest improvements.
Yes, you could do, however there are two main reasons people don’t do audits in house.
- Proving the auditors are competent to the external certification body.
- Avoiding a breach of impartiality but auditing your own work.
When running an audit programme we take a risk based approach, covering the high-risk areas more frequently.
As a rule we try to cover the whole system annually, but as a minimum we would expect to cover every clause and process within the three-year cycle.
We will provide an audit schedule and keep this updated.
NO. The internal audit report is sent directly to you as the client. However, the certification body will want to look at your internal audits when they do their external audits, so it’s important to address anything raised in the reports.
Yes! It’s not unusual for us to pick up a programme where the current auditor has left the business or where the company is looking to save money.
