Our organization has about 70 staff. There is about 170 quality procedures in QMS. These procedures covers 10 functions. (such as quality, manufacturing, engineering, sales, purchasing and etc.)
ISO 9001 QMS was finally built 4 years. Process owner reviewed quality procedures 4 years ago. Management assign me to do internal audit on quality procedures 3 years ago. The purpose of internal audit is to find if what we do is conform to what we say, and find any improvement opportunity.
I am only one internal auditor in my organization. So I can not audit my job/procedure. I am sure management will find another auditor from different department to audit my job in the future.
When I audit quality procedures and found a lot non-conformances, also a lot of procedures are not up to date to reflect what we are doing, although procedure have been reviewed before.
Management want me to improve efficiency of internal audit (do more audits). However I have other tasks to do. Currently I am doing procedure audit. (i.e. one procedure, one audit).
Now I am thinking maybe I can do quality system audit instead of procedure audit to speed up my internal audit process.
In this senario, can I do system audit to improve my efficiency. My concern is if I conduct system audit, maybe each clause of procedure can not be fully went though/covered during system audit.
Any suggestion. Thank you.
ISO 9001 QMS was finally built 4 years. Process owner reviewed quality procedures 4 years ago. Management assign me to do internal audit on quality procedures 3 years ago. The purpose of internal audit is to find if what we do is conform to what we say, and find any improvement opportunity.
I am only one internal auditor in my organization. So I can not audit my job/procedure. I am sure management will find another auditor from different department to audit my job in the future.
When I audit quality procedures and found a lot non-conformances, also a lot of procedures are not up to date to reflect what we are doing, although procedure have been reviewed before.
Management want me to improve efficiency of internal audit (do more audits). However I have other tasks to do. Currently I am doing procedure audit. (i.e. one procedure, one audit).
Now I am thinking maybe I can do quality system audit instead of procedure audit to speed up my internal audit process.
In this senario, can I do system audit to improve my efficiency. My concern is if I conduct system audit, maybe each clause of procedure can not be fully went though/covered during system audit.
Any suggestion. Thank you.