Description

INTERNAL QUALITY AUDITING – PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Build the Skills Employers Trust. Build the Confidence to Audit with Authority.

Internal quality auditing is an essential function within modern manufacturing and quality-management systems. Organisations use internal audits to determine whether their processes are being followed, whether systems are effective, and where opportunities for improvement exist.

In this professional training, you will develop the knowledge and practical skills required to perform an effective internal quality audit. You will follow the complete audit journey—from understanding what an internal audit is, through planning and preparation, conducting the audit and gathering objective evidence, writing findings, reporting results, and following up corrective actions.

This training is particularly relevant if you work in manufacturing, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, automotive, laboratory, quality assurance, quality control, or other regulated and quality-driven environments.

COURSE FORMAT

This course is delivered as one comprehensive video lesson containing all modules and topics.

You can complete the training in one continuous learning session while progressing through the structured topics covered in the video.

The single video brings together the complete training journey, allowing you to understand the relationship between audit planning, audit execution, evidence gathering, reporting, and corrective-action follow-up.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define internal quality auditing and explain its purpose.
• Understand why auditor independence and objectivity are important.
• Distinguish between internal, external/second-party, and certification/third-party audits.
• Understand important auditing frameworks including ISO 19011 and ISO 9001.
• Identify different types of internal audits, including process, product, system, and compliance audits.
• Explain the 7 principles of auditing from ISO 19011.
• Plan an internal audit by defining its scope, criteria, objectives, schedule, team, and resources.
• Prepare an audit checklist and review relevant documents before an audit.
• Conduct opening meetings and communicate professionally with auditees.
• Gather objective evidence through interviews, observation, and record review.
• Apply representative, risk-based sampling during an audit.
• Distinguish between major nonconformities, minor nonconformities, and observations/opportunities for improvement.
• Write clear, objective, evidence-based audit findings.
• Apply the Requirement – Observation – Evidence approach when documenting findings.
• Conduct effective closing meetings and communicate audit results.
• Prepare and issue an internal audit report.
• Understand corrective action, root-cause investigation, prevention, effectiveness verification, and closure.
• Recognise and avoid common mistakes made by new auditors.
• Develop the communication, documentation, objectivity, and attention-to-detail skills expected of an auditor.

The course roadmap takes you through the essential skills required to define an internal audit, apply auditing principles, plan and conduct an audit, gather objective evidence, classify findings, and follow corrective actions through to verified closure.