Generally, I have found not meeting internal audits a
priority issue. If it is not a priority, there will not by systems in place to ensure the resources are available, and the management direction that the audits
must be done. Look, if your boss or their boss was to walk up to you and question you why your audits are late, would that have any impact on your priorities? Are the internal audits spread across enough people to make the task reasonable?
Shoot, folks, we are not even talking about layered audits. That takes even
more resources and discipline. But, you know what? When these things are part of the customer requirements, you are getting paid to do them as a part of your product payment. It may not seem that way, and you might not have priced that overhead into your product (whose fault is that?) If ISO9001 is a
customer requirement for your business, then these audits are an obligation no different than putting the product in a box.
If it is
not a customer requirement, and your company does not have the management commitment to properly maintain the system, then why bother with it at all?
By the way - this is just a rhetorical point, not a point specifically for your situation, Selena.
