Undertaking Internal Audits for the organizations for Management System Certification

Undertaking Internal Audits for the organizations for Management System Certification

Internal audits are important for management system certification because they help ensure that an organization's management system is effective and meets the relevant standards. Internal audits can help identify areas where processes can be improved, such as reducing waste, improving efficiency, or increasing the consistency of products or services.

Management system standards require internal audits to be conducted to provide information on whether the system is effectively implemented and maintained, and to determine how well it conforms to the requirements of the relevant standard(s), and your organization’s own requirements.

The benefits of Effective Internal Audits are as under:

• Internal audits can verify that an organization's processes reflect its policies and procedures. This can help ensure that systems are in place to minimize or eliminate risks.

• Internal audits can help organizations improve their operational performance by identifying inefficiencies and unnecessary paperwork.

• Internal audits can help enhance an organization's business practices by providing independent assurance that its risk management, governance, and internal control processes are working effectively.

• Internal audits can help ensure that an organization is compliant with relevant laws and regulations.

Internal audits are required for the following management system standards:  

1. IS/ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS)
2. IS/ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System (EMS)
3. IS/ISO:45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS)
4. Integrated Management System (IMS) i.e Integration of ISO 9001:2015; ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 50001:2018 Systems
5. IS/ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management System (FSMS)
6. IS/ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management System (EnMS)
7. IS 15700:2018 Service Quality Management System (SQMS)
8. IS/ISO 37001:2016 Anti Bribery Management System
9. IS/ISO 13485:2016 Medical Device Management System
10. IS/ISO 16001:2018 Social Accountability at Workplace
11. Educational Organizations Management System (EOMS) ISO 21001:2018
12. Information Security Management System as per ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Management system standards require internal audits to be conducted to provide information on whether the system is effectively implemented and maintained, and to determine how well it conforms to the requirements of the relevant standard(s), and your organization’s own requirements.

Praditha Engineers (PE) offers the following service to the organizations already certified under various Management Systems:

One significant challenge your organization may face regarding internal audits is a lack of sufficiently competent or impartial resources to conduct your internal audits. To help you overcome this, PE which has a team of well experienced and highly knowledgeable retired senior officers of BIS with three decades of experience be deployed to undertake internal audit of the management system.

We enable you to not only meet the auditing requirements of the management system standards, but also tangibly improve the effectiveness of your management system. Our experts can help you develop your internal audit schedule in line with your organization’s conformance requirements and can also be prioritized based on the factors, such as risk assessment findings, incidents, previous audit findings, etc.  

Depending on the needs of your organization, internal audits may also be conducted with the following additional tailored and specific objectives:

• Regulatory compliance
• Waste reduction and improvement in potential efficiencies
• Cost reduction
• Customer satisfaction and Customer perception
• Stake holders feed back
• Management specific requirements
• Uniformity of products and/or services (process outputs)
• Relevance and accuracy of documentation and records
• Process effectiveness
• Analysis of the Nonconformities and incidents observed in external audits and root cause analysis to prevent occurrence else where.