Qudos System 3 Guided Tour - Internal audits

Auditing your system

The Problems...

All management systems need to be audited regularly to ensure that planned arrangements are working well in practice - and an internal audit programme is required by most management standards.

An organisation needs to train its auditors, and schedule the audits. The audits need to be reported on, and prompt action taken by the responsible people on any problems found. Without purpose-designed software, the audit process can be inefficient and / or ineffective...

"We record our audits on word-processed documents. These are not easily searched or replicated"

"Our audit records aren't well integrated with other records - such as action plans to deal with issues raised during the audit"

"Our audit schedule is in a spreadsheet, audit records are in Word documents, and CARs or improvement requests are in yet more separate documents. The whole thing takes a lot of administration work to manage"

The Solution...

Qudos System 3 has a dedicated Audits module for scheduling, planning and recording any kind of internal audit. It offers the ultimate flexibility for reviewing documents, or auditing business processes, contracts or events. Individual audits may be linked to flow charts, procedures or other documents.

The Audit Record is a stylish form with tabbed sections for a virtually unlimited checklist, plus summary and follow-up screens. The summary and each individual checklist item may be used to generate up to 100 separately tracked action plans. An automatic and permanent two-way link is created between the Action Form and the source Audit Record. A truly powerful tool for your audit process to help fix problems and drive improvement.

In the Audit Schedule, previous audit history may be quickly researched, and individual audits (complete with approved checklists and arrangements) may be replicated on one or more occasions at selected time intervals.

A Sample Procedure for internal audits is included. This may be customized to suit.

Audits training presentation

The new "Audits" Training Presentation explains the internal audit process, and offers useful tips on audit techniques and protocols.

To help you get even more benefits from your quality, OHS or integrated management system, Qudos can also provide fully-certified internal auditor training for groups of 4 to 16. Contact us for further details.

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