ISO 9001 Audit Trail: A Practical Guide to Process Auditing Following an Audit Trail

This book was written following the publication of the 700 word articles on Audit Trail published in "IRCA Inform Issue 24" and "ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group" 10th December 2009. A request was received from a Certification Body to develop a book on the importance of Audit Trail, especially as there is no definition of Audit Trail in "ISO 9000 2005". The failure to teach Auditors the importance of Auditing the Process following an Audit Trail - ensuring the Process can meet the specified outcome - undermines the quality profession. Every CEO, MD and Manager who has used Auditors or organisations that are ISO 9001 certified should read this book to see if they are getting value for money from their Audits. Every Audit should add value, however, if the trend to Audit to see if the system complies with whatever standard is being used, continues, credibility will not be regained. It is recommended that this book should be in every manager and Auditor's bookcase. The author has a declared intention to improve the standard of Auditing over a 5 year period completing in 2015.

Table of Contents:
Section Description; Index; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Historic Terminology; 1.2 Reason Certification Introduced; 1.3 Objective and purpose; 2.0 The Objective of the Standard; 3.0 Back to Basics; 4.0 How to prepare for the Audit; 4.1 Audit programme; 4.2 Audit Plan; 5.0 How to start the Audit; 6.0 How to Audit; 7.0 Product Realisation; 8.0 Concerns; 9.0 Summary of Simple Audit Flow; 10.0 Conclusion; 11.0 Original Back to Basics Guidance Documents; Part 1 Audit Trail; Part 2 Objective Evidence; Part 3 Specification; Part 4 Audit Criteria; Part 5 Random Sample; Part 6 Audit Findings; Part 7 Audit Evidence; Part 8 Competence; Part 9 Declaration of Conformity; Part 10 Certificate of Conformity; Part 11 Controlled Documents; Part 12 Certification; 12.0 Final Thoughts; App A Sample Audit Plan; App B Key Highlights.

About the Author :
David Seear has worked abroad in the Far East based in Brunei, the Middle East based in the United Arab Emirates, and in West Africa, Nigeria. He specialises in Quality and integrating Health Safety and Environmental within one management system. His expertise in Manufacturing and in Marine Engineering, Refining, Exploration and Gas plant is formidable. He specialises in training and consultancy where his common sense approach ensures practical effective systems are put in place. He also works with personnel to remove wasteful and non-productive practices. Has also assisted companies in improving their efficiency by identifying problem areas, gathering data, prioritising the problems and setting up teams to action improvements. Has represented the United Kingdom on International Committees such as TC 176. He represented the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on the National Accreditation Council for Certification Bodies. He is an Environmental Auditor having passed one of the first approved courses to be run in the U.K. in 1994. He developed his assessment skills within the U.K. Oil and Gas industry in supporting projects such as Tern, Eider, Fulmar, S.E.Inde as well as assignments with the Troll Project where engineering expertise was essential. Had articles published in 1990 in order to encourage management to embrace one system covering all business issues. He has applied his environmental expertise to improving waste management control at Brunei Liquid Natural Gas (BLNG 1996) To the extent that BLNG with minimal effort could, if it wished, be registered under the environmental scheme ISO 14001. He is an expert on ISO standards as he helped develop the 9000 series and was on the British Standards institutes QMS 22 for 6 years and the ISO 9000 committee (TC 176) for 3 years.