ISO Certification and Internal Audit
ISO Certification and Internal Audit are closely related with each other. Without internal audit you cannot achieve iso certificate and you cannot hold your certificate without performing internal audit regularly.
There is few mandatory things for ISO certification. Before getting certification you will have to prepare ISO documents. After documentation and implementation you will have to perform internal audit. It is must doing job. Usually two internal audits are done in a year. However, It can be done in any frequency.
The clause number 9 of ISO 9001:2015 has told to measure the quality management system after implementation of standard requirements and after certification. Sub clause 9.2 told to perform internal audit to measure the performance of ISO standard. After performing internal audit the report should be submitted to the top management for review. So, ISO Certification and Internal Audit are very important terms.
What is Internal Audit?
Systematic, independent and documented process to finding fact and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled.
How to Do Internal Audit?
There are few steps to perform audit. Audit team build up, Prepare Audit plan, Fixing Audit Scope, prepare Audit checklist and share plan to the auditees before audit date. In the audit day there are also few steps like: opening meeting, onsite activities and finally closing meeting and report preparing.
Who Can Do Internal Audit?
To perform ISO internal audit, it is necessary to have internal auditor certificate or internal auditor training. Without internal auditor training you will not understand how to do audit. If you think you have no trained internal audit then you can build up a team from your organization or you can hire a Certified internal auditor.
Why Internal Audit in ISO?
ISO Certification and Internal audit are strongly bonded with each other. Internal audit can be compared with a mirror. What are happening inside the organization, you can see it from the internal audit result. In the language of ISO it is also called the first party audit. It is mandatory for iso certification and iso certified company. From this first party audit you can check different process within the scope.
Benefits of Internal Audit
There are lots of benefits of performing internal audit. It finds faults and gaps in the processes of your organization. It creates competence of your staffs. It creates honesty among the staffs. It reduces wastes in production. Finally it helps to grow your revenue.
How to find internal auditor?
There are few certification bodies who regularly arrange internal auditor training in Bangladesh. Like other training organization Advanced Assessment Services provides internal auditor training regularly. The best thing is it is free of cost if you are going to apply for ISO certification from AAS. Selecting AAS as your certification body means you are saving money from ISO Certification and Internal audit.
ISO 9001 Clause 7
ISO 9001 Clause 7 for 2015 version is also known as Support. This support is for the organization for establish implementation and maintain of quality management system. Top management will provide it. There is several sub clauses and sub sub clauses in this standard. Resources, Competence, Awareness, Communication and documented information are the main topics of this standard of ISO 9001 Clause 7.
People, Infrastructure, Environment, Monitoring and Measuring Devices, Organizational Knowledge are the main sub sub clauses of Resources. For proper implementation of QMS the above topics are necessary and the top management will ensure that those all are present in the organization.
To ensure competence the company will verify the education, work experience training etc for the people.
After setting quality policy and objectives that shall be communicated to the all staffs for effective implementation of QMS ISO 9001 2015.
Communication guideline shall be there for external and internal communication. To ensure this guideline what, when whom to how to and who word can be used.
The company will determine what documented information is required for the effectiveness of the qms. Based on company size, type, activities, processes this documents may differ from company to company. The company may also follow the document control procedure in this regard. All kind of support including the above should be placed by top management according to the ISO 9001clause 7.
How to achieve ISO 9001
How to achieve ISO 9001 Certificate in Bangladesh
How to achieve iso 9001 post will help you to know how can you get iso 9001 certificate in Bangladesh. Achieve ISO 9001 Certification in Bangladesh is not difficult. Not only 9001 but it is the same process for some other standards like ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 22000, OHSAS 18001, HACCP etc.
To achieve iso 9001 simply follow the following steps:
- Signing the contract form
- Make 50% advance of total amount
- Attend the Gap Analysis Visit
- Participate in the training program
- Prepare documents
- Implement ISO requirements
- Do Internal Audit
- Take CA Plan (If any)
- Do Management Review Meeting
- Participate in the Certification Audit
- Take CA Plan (if any)
- Receive the Certificate
Those are the simple process to achieve ISO 9001 in Bangladesh
ISO 27001 Requirement
ISO 27001 requirement post will help you to know what are the requirement for isms(information security management system standard) certification. If you have the copy of ISO 27001 standard then you can read thoroughly to know what are the requirement for this security information management system standard certification.
To prepare ISMS requirement you need to hire an ISO Consultant. An ISO implementer can help you to prepare those 27K requirements. Though 27001 standard is similar with other management standards like 9001, 14001, 22000, 45001 etc but documentation should be done carefully with extra care for 27001 implementation. Because it can be your great tool to manage and monitor your information related various online and offline based threat.
Important information may be disclosed and great risk can be arise if your 27001 standard instruction or documentations are not prepared properly and not implemented accurately. That’s why an expert ISMS consultant can help you to prepare those documents skillfully.
27001:2013 has many documentation requirements. However following are the mandatory documents and instructions for information security management system certification:
- Scope of the information security management system standard (4.3)
- ISMS policy (5.2 e)
- Information security risk assessment process (6.1.2)
- Information security risk treatment process (6.1.3)
- Statement of Applicability (SoA) (6.1.3 d)
- Information security objectives (6.2)
- Evidence of competence (7.2)
- Documentation necessary for the effectiveness of the 27001 standard(7.5.1 b)
- Documentation necessary to have confidence that the processes required for operational planning and control have been carried out as planned (8.1)
- Results of information security risk assessments (8.2)
- Results of information security risk treatments (8.3)
- Evidence of the information security performance monitoring and measurement results (9.1)
- Internal audit (9.2 g)
- Management reviews (9.3)
- Nonconformities and Corrective actions (10.1)
AAS has several ISO 27001 Consultants who can help you to prepare 27001 requirements skillfully. They are dependable because they have already worked as 27001 lead implementer in different organizations including Uttara Bank. You can contact with AAS from this page to prepare and implement iso 27001 requirement for your organization.