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I'm not sure you need to! An internal audit shouldn't be addressing - directly - the requirements of the ISO standard. The scope, criteria etc should be your organizations qms - those planned arrangements - not anything that ISO 9001 (13485 etc) states...
A clue is that if you find yourself having to interpret 'Iso-speak' there's something wrong!
A clue is that if you find yourself having to interpret 'Iso-speak' there's something wrong!
I have the feeling that simply preparing a checklist and verifying whether practices of the company conform with what is written in QMS without referring/explaining to the auditee, during the opening meeting of the internal audit, the purpose/objectives of the audit (those required by ISO 8.2.2 and maybe any additional ones required by the company) is not the right approach.
I am of the opinion that the internal auditor should be in a position to briefly elaborate on the internal audit purposes/objectives as required by ISO 8.2.2.
In addition one of the requirements of ISO 8.2.2 is to determine conformity of the QMS with the ISO standard. When auditing the Internal Audit process it may be therefore required to explain how the ISO 8.2.2 requirement " to determine whether the QMS conforms with the planned arrangement" was addressed. If one is not able to define and understand exactly the meaning of "planned arrangements", how can he properly deal with this requirement and provide evidence of conformity.
May be I am looking into too much detail because I have not been dealing with ISO too long !! I simply like get the "Root Meaning" of standards (whether ISO, Accounting or any other standares) and not an approximate understanding.
Thanks once again

Good links, Andy.
