Changing Internal Audit Program - Regional Manager Online Audits

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C Emmons

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I am changing the way our Internal Audit Program is structured and wanted to gain some feedback to see if anyone sees a problem as far as a registrar is concerned. To provide some background, previously I have been the only internal auditor for my company 19 facilities, IND, KY, MI and Ohio. I have recently been able to bring the internal audit program on line including applicable checklist(yes I said checklist). I have always conducted some off site pre/audit activity form corporate as documentation is maintained here in certain areas. I still had to go on site to check additional areas. Going forward, I am now planning on involving addtional people (Regional Managers) who regularly travel to the facilities. They have not been formally trained in ISO Auditing, but are trained in our processes. It is my intent to publish my audit schedule and have these managers log on and complete the on site portion of the audit. I will still complete the off site and the internal audit is complete. This will mainly be the set up for our smaller, more distanced facility thus allowing me to move our larger more active facilites to a quarterly audit schedule. Anyone see a reason this could cause a problem from a registrar standpoint?
 
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DannyK

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Your idea is a good one. I would train the Regional Managers in internal auditing. This will ensure that they understand the basics of what they are doing. Registration auditors often want to view training records for internal auditors.

Danny
 
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Aaron Lupo

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C Emmons said:
They have not been formally trained in ISO Auditing, but are trained in our processes.
That is the key right there, as long as theya re trained to you internal process on completing audits I would have no problem.
 
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