The ongoing challenge for many companies is how to upgrade or integrate internal audit knowledge/competence and maybe cross train auditors for all the auditing schemes that your company is currently registered to or may be planning on expanding.

How is the ISO involved with Greenhouse Gasses (GHG)? Over the past 20 years or so, ISO has released a number of standards around GHG.

The ISO Amendment was dropped in February 2024, surprising many. However, ISO had been working on this for years. For instance, ISO 14090:2019 Adaptation to Climate Change - Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines includes definitions related to the topic.

You are now required to consider “climate change” within your management system.

So how does a company encourage employees to perform and to seek to learn more about effective auditing? There are a few things that could be useful in your internal training program.

Many organizations fail to realize the importance of customer perspectives based on use of the ISO MSS series. How can your company utilize the ISO MSS to your best advantage?

CPR for internal auditors is an acronym designed to help internal auditors remember concepts for conducting better audits. The acronym represents conformance/compliance; process approach; and risk-based thinking.

Having conducted well over 700 audits, there are some patterns that have developed that are interesting to note.

As a full time auditor for the past six years for one of the large management system registrars, I start every interview, from production personnel to the CEO, with the question: “Given all of your job responsibilities at this company, what does the word ‘quality’ mean in your work?”