Remote Certification Audits - Bottomless ISO Brunch?
2nd June 2024 by Grant McCormick
Many positives actually emerged from the Pandemic. Necessity accelerated flexible hybrid working, reducing travel & childcare requirements, reducing our Carbon Footprints & subsequently invented Remote ISO Certification Audits.
Hybrid & remote Audits initiated through necessity have proved popular with the majority of our clients. Some Assesment Bodies are not aware that it often isn’t the cost of the Audit that burdens a business but the time it consumes of Snr Personnel. All online meetings seem to be more concise, only involve people actually needed & documentation requiring laborious scrutiny can be sent to the Auditor for review, rather than someone sitting beside them in case of a need for clarification the auditor can collate his questions for more concise, less time-consuming meetings. Even the need for physical checks can be effectively completed (& evidence recorded) by SMART Phone.
As consultants we are able to offer a more hands-on comprehensive service through remote working, i.e. a 1-2hr meeting doesn’t take out a consultants full day as a client visit can, allowing us to offer limitless meetings as part of our Cert Packages – a Bottomless ISO Brunch!
Like teachers have to continually keep or catch up with developments in Business & Technology, Certification Bodies need to keep up with newly innovated Post-Pandemic Business Operations.
Some divided opinion but from recent IAF Publication – “These figures suggest that remote audits (often as part of hybrid audits) will continue to be part of conformity assessment beyond the pandemic.”
For the future of ISO - The future is Hybrid
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