Lead Auditor shall establish the audit programme procedures through the planning of the audit activities, development and communicating of the audit plan to the auditee. In general the audit process involves tasks that can be grouped into pre-site visit activities, on-site activities and post-site visit activities as follows:
Careful and thorough planning of the audit activities is critical to the audit’s success as the proper conduct of a site inspection.
Pre Site Visit Activities
Pre-site visit activities should be properly planned by ensuring that appropriate resources and equipment are available and time is allocated to carry out the audit in the most efficient and effective way.
Audit planning and communication of audit plans and it’s requirements
An audit plan outlines the following key elements and the products that the audit will generate
- the audit activities to meet audit objective and scope
- the audit schedule
- the audit scope and criteria
- Logistic arrangement
- Work areas to be audited
- Document to be reviewed
- Persons to be interviewed
- Audit personnel and their responsibilities
- Audit reporting (format, topics, language, submission schedule)
- Matters relating to confidentiality
- Follow up requirements
