Setting up an effective Internal Audit Program

Why Should You Attend:

Internal auditing drives continual improvement and reminds everyone that Quality comes first! Auditing is an assessment tool that provides a reliable performance indicator of your organization’s system and processes. In other words, an internal audit is an audit of an entity's internal control systems and procedures and how the system and procedures are implemented. Companies that establish internal audits as part of their culture to practice discipline of process control will benefit in the long run with stable and reliable processes.

In 90 minutes we will cover three foundational elements for designing an effective internal audit process. These areas include how to establish Internal Audit Program objectives, develop audit plans, and write effective non-compliances.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Establishing objectives of the internal audit program
  • Incorporating PDCA
  • Types of audit models
  • Resource requirements
• Developing the audit plan
  • Criteria for planning an audit
  • Auditor selection
  • How to create an audit plan
• Writing effective non-compliances
  • Non-compliance criteria
  • ISO Standard interpretation
  • How to write an effective non-compliance

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide new communication skills and tools to remote team members and quality system auditors who are working remotely.

• Remote team members working in global supply chains
• Managers responsible for personnel working remotely
• Trainers, Facilitators
• Knowledge Managers
• ISO 9001 Internal Auditors and Consultants
• Company ownership and top management that drives the ISO 9001 requirement
• ISO 9001 Consultants
• VP/Director of Supply Chain & Materials Management
• CEO and  Senior management
• Quality / Operations VPs / Directors

Instructor Profile:

Shauna Wilson, president of Amazon Consulting, Inc. has, for the past 14 years, focused her consulting talents on performance management, International Standards, and building high performance Internet Teams. With twenty years of Quality field experience in high tech industry, Shauna is an IRCA certified QMS auditor who conducts online internal ISO9001QMS audits for Corporate 500 companies and registration audits (site and online) for Verisys Registrars. She holds a BA in Communication, and an MS in Instruction Design and Performance Management Technologies. Ms. Wilson published InterneTeaming.com: Tools to Create High Performance Remote Teams. She has presented at ASQ International Conferences since 2002 and her writings have been featured in Quality Progress, The Auditor, and ASTD's InfoLine. Shauna Wilson is the Social Responsibility Chair at 0607 Portland ASQ Section.

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