Conducting Internal Audit For Compliance With QMS

[JMT]

Hi There

Was looking for some help with conducting an internal audit that will satisfy mcs.

We are a small company therefore looking for something straightforward.

Any suggestions please.

 

[Worcester]

Napit have a free checklist, and will even issue a free template QMS
Alternatively try these guys, Complete MCS Accreditation Template for £199 (p.s. not used them yet myself, however all the questions I threw at their staff they answered completently and correctly!)

 

[JMT]

Hi Worcester thanks for your reply. I am already mcs accredited and have got my qms. Im just a little unsure how to conduct an internal audit properly.

So looking for some advice really on how other small companies go about it.

 

[dansk]

Internal audit? is that posh for quarterly management reviews? were you sit with yourself (in my case) and review the company, take down some notes and save them.

 

[SRE]

Retrospectively ;-)

 

[babba]

You just need to sit down at your desk and bang you head off the desk until you draw blood.

 

[JMT]

Internal audit? is that posh for quarterly management reviews? were you sit with yourself (in my case) and review the company, take down some notes and save them.

Haha Dansk no I do that also, you are supposed to do an internal audit on your procedures and document it at least once a year. I just wondered how other small companies went about theirs as its not something that I am familiar with or ever done before.

Has anyone been asked this at their annual inspection?

 

[dansk]

Ohh yeahh I know that one? Not! Never seen it or been asked. What next internal audit for the internal audit? Gees

 

[JMT]

It was in their sample qms that they gave me when I done the course. Oh well hopefully I wont need it.

Thanks for your help

 

[Gavin A]

an internal whatty what?

is this management speak for going through and checking you've got all the up to date documents you need to have prior to the MCS inspection?

if so, the method I've found works best is to leave it right to the last minute so you waste as little time as possible, then get anyone who happens to be in the vicinity to print a assist with printing stuff out and filing it, then make sure you've got wireless internet and printing and a laptop in the assessment, and if you've not got a document, just do a quick google search, send it to print and then go get it from the office.

 

[JMT]

An internal whatty what. That made me lol.

I have quite a good computerised set up for the qms so I am actually doing it as I go along without thinking about it. I have all the relevant up to date documents already so im not worried about that either. I think its just being nervous as im not sure what they are going to ask etc.

I think its more to do with reviewing the qms to confirm the functions are adhering to company procedures. They are also supposed to be undertaken by someone other than the person directly responsible for the functions being audited.
Then any non conformances are brought to (my) attention and documented.

Im exhausted justctyping that mouthfull

 

[Gavin A]

ah right, well I think I did that then, as there was no way I was reading through everything again that I'd written the year before, so I asked 2 other members of our team to read through them and check they complied before I did a final check and update.

I guess there's one thing you can say for DECC's new cuts every quarter policy... it will make fitting in the quarterly reviews relatively simple as we'll all have a month or so per quarter to fill with pointless tasks instead of actually installing panels.