Why Outsource ISO 42001 Internal Audits to Assent
Assent Risk Management has trained, competent and experienced ISO 42001 internal auditors who can impartially audit your organisation to find non-conformances, weaknesses and improvements in your ISO 42001 AI management system.
Our internal auditors are on your side and will work with you and your team during the audit, but we will also prepare you for next certification visit by highlight any areas that might come up in the external audit.
Industry Leading Internal Audit Reports & Analysis
Our internal audit process and reports are tried and tested, having been tested at external audits and refined over many years. In addition, we continually seek feedback from auditors and clients to make them even better.
Every ISO 42001 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.
Integrated ISO 42001 Audits
ISO 42001 internal audits can be integrated with other management systems, most commonly ISO 27001 to reduce audit time and repetition. Many of our auditors have multiple competencies to do this, managed through our leading competency management scheme.
Clients that Trust Us for ISO 42001
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about ISO 42001
Management system standards aligned to Annex SL have a requirement for you to internally check the performance of your management system. This is in clause 9.2 Internal Audits. Auditors must be competent and impartial from what they are auditing. So outsourcing these audits to Assent makes perfect sense.
Internal audits vary in cost depending on the complexity of your AI system use or development. However often we can conduct audits Remotely, which saves time and travel costs.
A basic audit of a system can be as little as 2 days, at around £1,600 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 things to consider.
- Can you prove you are competent to do the audit? External auditors will check.
- Are you auditing your own work? As this is a breach of impartiality.
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.
