ISO 9001 Annual Internal Audit Plan

For businesses that establish and implement Quality Management System internal examination ISO 9001 Annual Internal Audit Plan is the most important basis of its activities. This plan is prepared taking into consideration the organizational structures, units and conformity of the processes. Internal audit plans and the results of the previous audit are taken as basis. These results indicate which units or processes should be concentrated in audit activities.

When planning Internal Audit, attention should also be paid to integration with other management systems currently in operation. If these systems are included in the plan, all systems are audited in the same internal audit plan.

An annual internal audit plan is given below as an example. In general, all companies implement a yearly internal audit plan similar to this plan.

The areas of information on the Annual Internal Audit Plan are as follows:

• Document number (Number of Annual Internal Audit Plan)
• Date of publication (the date on which the Annual Internal Audit Plan was first published)
• Revision no (the number of times the Annual Internal Audit Plan was revised)
• Revision date (date when the Internal Audit Plan was last revised)
• Page number (number of pages of the Annual Internal Audit Plan)
• Months (Months for internal audit work)
• Unit name (Names of the units to be studied internally)
• Prepared (Name, surname and title of the person who prepared the Annual Internal Audit Plan)
• Control (Name, surname and title of the person who controls the Annual Internal Audit Plan)
• Approvers (Name, surname and title of the person who approved the Annual Internal Audit Plan)

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