Re: Having trouble with audit form.
Listen to Andy's advice. He explained it well. You need to do your audits based on processes, not the clauses or elements. This approach would lead to a significant nonconformance.
Get some good training, it will be quicker than pursuing this approach. Many of us, including Andy and I offer auditor training to help develop a better approach.
The form we have was givin to us. Its seems very repetitive. Lots of questions seem to have the same answers when I review them. Its also difficult to apply them to what I need. We do contract electronic manufacturing and it doesn't seem that I can get the qustions to relate. It may be I am a bit ingnorant to doing a proper audit but I'm trying to make sense of it.
Get some good training, it will be quicker than pursuing this approach. Many of us, including Andy and I offer auditor training to help develop a better approach.