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Slide 244
Quality
Management System Implementation
Reasons For Third Party Audits
•Everyone is familiar
with the idea of audits. One place we are all aware of audits is in the banking industry. For years,
the government has required banks to
submit to periodic audits by government
agencies and/or external companies who specialize in auditing. Few people want to put their money in a bank
where there are no controls such as
periodic audits. If there are no audits, you have
no way of knowing if your bank is using your money well. If the bank is not ‘using your money well’
the bank could easily fail - then you could
lose all of your money.
•Audits in other service industries and in manufacturing industries are not new. Customer audits have been going
on for years. But only recently has the idea
of third party audits become reality.
This is in large part due to the adoption in Europe of ISO 9001 and other international standards.