CHAPTER 5: INTERNAL AUDITOR COMPETENCIES
For any internal management system audit program to be effective, it is of vital importance to have competent people managing, performing, and reporting them. ISO19011 goes into some depth of detail to list a number of attributes of auditors, which may, indeed, be desirable; however, in many internal audit programs, a number of key requirements for auditors are often overlooked.
“Never volunteer for anything”!
This famous saying, often attributed as coming from the military forces, should be taken at face value when considering who should perform internal management systems audits. There are many reasons why anyone who would volunteer, often when they have no practical experience of audits, shouldn’t be ...
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