Why Outsource Your ISO 9001 Internal Audits to Assent
Assent Risk Management has competent ISO 9001 internal auditors with years of experience in quality management who can impartially audit your organisation to find non-conformances, weaknesses and improvements in your ISO 9001 quality management system.
Our internal auditors are on your side and will work sensitively with you and your team. However, while that is the case, we will also prepare you for your ISO 9001 certification audits by highlighting 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 9001 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 9001 Audits
ISO 9001 is a management system standards that follows the common clause structure of Annex SL. Therefore the audits can easily be integrated with other management system standards reducing audit time and repetition.
Many of our auditors are competent across multiple standards, through our leading competency management scheme, or can work as part of an audit team to reduce audit time.
Clients that Trust Us with their ISO 9001 Internal Audits
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about ISO 9001
Management system standards, including ISO 9001, have a requirement for you to internally check the performance of your management system.
This is in clause 9.2 Internal Audits.
People conducting internal audits must be competent in the standard and impartial from what they are auditing.
So outsourcing these audits to Assent makes perfect sense.
Internal audits for ISO 9001 vary in cost depending on the complexity of your management system, number of staff, number of locations, number of integrated standards and so on.
A basic quality management system or a service based business with little reliance on it’s premises can be done remotely, reducing cost. Where as a manufacturing location or construction site would require more in-depth process observations that need to be on-site.
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 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.
