CHAPTER 6: USING THE RESULTS OF INTERNAL AUDITS
If we are to consider much of the management process (required by the various ISO management system standards) as a network of interacting processes, it follows that the output of the internal audit process becomes an input to the management review of the system.
Since a management system internal audit is, by its nature, performed on the organization by its own personnel, there are four likely situations to report to management, within the associated requirement for the “management review.” In the following scenarios, the internal audits are used as an independent “validation” for management, who are each reporting on the performance – to the stated objectives – of the process(es) for which they ...
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