Service
Pre-Certification Readiness Assessment
Determining the system’s readiness before the formal audit.
Walking into a certification audit unprepared costs more than the extra fee; it costs the team's confidence. This assessment looks where the formal audit will look: documentation, evidence of implementation, internal audit records and management review are all gone through. The open points that come out are prioritised so they can be closed before the audit date.
Who is it for?
Organizations that want to identify their gaps before a certification or surveillance audit.
Scope of work
- Readiness check against the clauses of the standard
- Review of documentation and implementation evidence
- Prioritization of critical gaps
Expected outputs
- A readiness assessment report
- A list of critical gaps
- A pre-audit action plan
Frequently asked
Questions we hear about this service
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It does not. The internal audit is a separate activity required by the standard, and records of it must be kept. A readiness assessment is complementary work carried out before the formal audit to see whether the system is ready.
While there is still enough time to close whatever it finds. An assessment run close to the audit date shows the problem but leaves no room to fix it.
Whatever the formal audit will examine: whether documentation is current, evidence of implementation, internal audit and management review records, the closure of corrective actions, and whether process owners can explain their own responsibilities.