First Party Auditing – Internal Audits of Management Systems.

First party audits are audits conducted by a company to its own management system. They are conducted with the objective of continuous improvement of the system as well as for assessing the level of its conformity with specific standards and audit criteria. For this reason, these audits are called 'Internal Audits' and the auditors who carry them out are called 'Internal Auditors'.

In all Management Systems Standards, it is a requirement that internal auditors shall be independent of the processes they audit, in order to achieve the objectives of the audits by ensuring a certain degree of objectivity. 

The ideal and recommended approach for any company is to assign internal audits to internal auditors who are employees/executives of the company. There are however many cases where companies do not prefer (or are not able to) to allocate their own resources. This may be due to many reasons such as e.g. resources constraints (human, technical training, education, time, etc.) or a non-achievable satisfactory degree of independence. In such cases, companies may select and assign the internal audits to outsourcing associates. 

ISONIKE undertakes and conducts internal audits including the preparation of reports to the management of companies for all management systems standards, the main ones being: 

• ISO 27001 –  Information Security Management Systems (Information for the ISO 27001 Standard can be found here or here)
• ISO 20000-1 – IT Service Management Systems) (Information for the ISO 27001 Standard can be found here or here)
• ISO 22301 –  Business Continuity Management Systems (Information for the ISO 27001 Standard can be found here)
• ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems (Information for the ISO 9001 Standard can be found here or here)
• ISO 14001 – Environmental Management Systems (Information for the ISO 14001 Standard can be found here or here)
• OHSAS 18001 –  Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (Information for the OHSAS 18001 Standard can be found here)
• ISO 50001 –  Energy Management Systems. (Information for the ISO 50001 Standard can be found here or here)
• ISO/TS 29001 – Quality Management Systems (Petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries) (Information for the ISO 29001 Standard can be found here)
• ISO 22000 – Food Safety Management Systems (Information for the ISO 22000 Standard can be found here or here)
• HACCP  -  System for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points. (Information for the HACCP Standard can be found here)
• GMP – Good Manufacturing Practice (Information for the GMP Standard can be found here)

ISONIKE services:

• Are provided to any business regardless of its size, activities and geographical location. 
• Are conducted by professional auditors of ISONIKE’s international network who have appropriate technical competence (for the activity of the company), combined with accumulated and specialized experience in auditing. 
• Are applied in consultation with the management and after having understood the specific variables, in a manner that is customised to the needs and objectives of the business in order to assess the degree of conformity to their requirements. 
• Increase the level of confidence on supplied processes, services and products through verification and validation – which in many cases may be more important than that of certification. 
• Fully meet the Internal Audit requirement that exists within all management system standards, and contribute vitally in their continual improvement.
• Assure the reputation, name, brand and corporate social responsibility of the company by operating as a deterrent to potential product and service variations or variations on the implementation of the system in different geographical locations. 

For more information please contact us at auditing [at] isonike [dot] com