Unit: Participate in a Quality Audit
Project No.: 2

Student Name: Sonia Rana

Name : Sonia Rana

List of Contents
Description

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Introduction
Quality Audit and Its Importance
Audit Team and Their Roles
Audit Procedure
Entry and Exit Meetings
Reporting
Audit Standards
Summary
References

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Name : Sonia Rana

Introduction:
This paper details the importance of the Quality audit, why audit are conducted and what is the purpose of auditing. It explains the process followed to organise, complete and report the audit. Also roles of the various audit team members including external experts/technical specialists are discussed.
A brief overview of the audit process, what process and techniques are used during audit process. It also includes the importance of the entry and exit meetings, why these meetings are required and what is discussed in these meetings.
This paper explores about the legislations, codes of practices and quality standards that applies to a Quality auditing.
Also identifies what reports needs to be made as a result of audit findings, also discusses the formats of the reports and to whom these reports should be presented.
A brief conclusion is presented in the last section summarising the findings and discussions.

Quality Audits and Its Importance:
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Name : Sonia Rana

Quality audit is the process of systematic examination of a quality system carried out by an internal or external quality auditor or an audit team. It is an important part of organization's quality management system and is a key element in the ISO quality system standard, ISO
9001.
Audits are tools to help an organisation review its processes, outcomes and activities.
The outcome of an audit may result in any one or more of the following:
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A verification of compliance or non-compliance with a pre-determined