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Quality Management Systems Internal Auditing 

ISO 9000, ISO/TS 16949, AS-9100, TL 9000

Internal Auditor.com is dedicated to providing you resources beneficial to internal auditors. This section is dedicated to serving Quality System Internal Auditors. On our pages, you will find information, books, links, and other resources to help you perform more productive audits. We offer a wide variety of free resources. Our Feature area includes newsletters that gives useful hints, tips, and information. And now Subscriptions are no longer necessary!

Of course Internal Auditor.com offers much more than the featured articles. Each issue may also include other subjects, such as:

  • Feature Articles
  • Tips/Tricks/Laughter
  • Book of the month
  • Observations from the field (The place where you share your experiences)
  • Questions and Answers
  • Understanding the Elements (ISO/TS/TE)
  • Monthly review of resources
  • Notes from a Registrar
  • Internal Audit Administration

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Internal Auditor.com is about internal auditing. That includes the struggles and victories faced by Quality Management System Internal Auditors. Undoubtedly, you have questions, comments, advice, or even humorous situations you wish you could share. Please Do! Give us the details, and we will post it. You can email us at: contributions at Internal-Auditor.com.  ... This is your chance to give input into our world!

Internal Auditor Certification

There is no requirement for internal auditors be certified. Third-party auditors require certification in order to audit for a registrar, but no such requirements exist for internal auditors. Although ISO 10011 gives guidance on auditor selection, most businesses ignore (mostly because they are ignorant to its existence) the guidance and select auditors using other criteria.

Even though there is no requirement for certification, certification is possible. The Registrar Accreditation Board, or RAB offers a certification program for Quality Management Systems (QMS) internal auditors. You can obtain more information about certification by visiting RAB's QMS Internal Auditor page.

Another certification option is the American Society for Quality's (ASQ) Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). Once again, there is no requirement to be certified, but by achieving either of the above indicates your level of professionalism and dedication to the profession of internal quality auditing.
Because this site uses information from many different sources, it must be pointed out that any advice, tips, information, etc., provided should be regarded as opinion and not fact! What works well for one company may be a disaster for another. Also, what one registrar, or auditor may allow, another may not. As always, reflect on what you read, see if it fits into your own quality system, and if it conflicts with your auditor...you've got to make a decision.
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Last updated: July 06, 2004.