Internal Audit should be a key part of self-awareness and understanding strengths and weaknesses within your Quality Management System. It should be an essential guide to corrective and preventive action and drive improvement. But it doesn’t always work that way. In this webinar, we’ll cover the reasons internal audit doesn’t work and how you can correct that. This webinar will explore how to improve your internal audit program, so it is an efficient and effective tool it is meant to be. Internal Audit is a required part of an effective quality system. More importantly, it is an incredibly powerful tool to identify areas of non-compliance and quality risks. A well-designed audit program can be an effective tool in understanding, communicating, and reducing quality and compliance risk.

However, many companies conduct audits only because they are required to by regulation. Businesses often see internal audit as a non-value-added activity leading to meaningless findings, bureaucracy, and cumbersome processes. And despite having an internal audit program, management is often surprised when they receive a 483, Warning Letter, or even a Consent Decree.