All You Need to Know About ISO 9001 Audit Checklist

An ISO 9001 audit checklist is a useful tool in assessing compliance with the ISO 9001 standard. Due the nature of ISO 9001 an ISO 9001 audit checklist will concentrate on the requirements of the standard and not be industry specific. A skilled ISO 9001 auditor will use such a checklist but will be knowledgeable in the area being audited such that they can assess if an organization has applied the requirements of the standard adequately for their processes.

There are two stages to developing an IS0 9001 audit checklist, the first is Senior Management implementation. The checklist should ensure that the initial process has involved considering customer requirements in order determine the requirements for the quality management system and developing relevant policies and establishing establish objectives. Policies and objectives should be documented and refer to customer and legal requirements that the organization is committed to meeting. The ISO 9001 audit checklist should cover how policies and objectives have been used to establish a documented quality management system.

ISO 9001 audit checklist will prescribe checks to see compliance in the form of documented policies, objectives and an organizational chart or job descriptions, all of which should be communicated. An ISO 9001 audit checklist will include requirements for evidence of monitoring and measurement, control of nonconforming product, analysis of data and measures taken to improve the quality management system.

The main part of the ISO 9001 audit checklist will cover how the quality management system meets the requirements of the standard. This can simply be done by listing each clause of the standard and using the list of requirements as an audit checklist. The purpose of using an ISO 9001 audit checklist for a organization is to review the effectiveness of the process, and to ensure that non-conformities do not occur.

In doing this Global Manager Group provides ISO 9001 audit checklist document kit that can be used to check compliance against the ISO 9001:2015 standard.