To maintain certifi cations and comply with international standards, you must be able to demonstrate compliance with required audit, review, inspection or observation programs.
To achieve continuous improvement, you need actionable information derived from comparing the theoretical to reality in the field.
VisiumKMS – Auditor is widely used in the chemical process, oil and gas, and refi ning industries as well as high-tech manufacturing. Seamlessly integrated with VisiumKMS – Resolution Tracker, it provides an enterprise-grade solution that allows your audit team to:
• Manage audit protocols
• Create and manage audit plans
• Assign audit responsibility
• Measure audit conduct, fi ndings and results
• Track recommendations and corrective actions to closure
Benefits
• Enables you to avoid costly recurrences of problems by capturing and sharing the lessons learned from audits and inspections across your enterprise
• Delivers actionable information from audits and ensures timely follow-up to produce change and improvement in your operations
• Supports compliance with the mandatory quality-management element of ISO-9000, ISO-14000 and other international standards.• Enables you to avoid costly recurrences of problems by capturing and sharing the lessons learned from audits and inspections across your enterprise
• Delivers actionable information from audits and ensures timely follow-up to produce change and improvement in your operations
• Supports compliance with the mandatory quality-management element of ISO-9000, ISO-14000 and other international standards.
Auditor Process
Phase 1: Audit Planning
VisiumKMS – Auditor includes a powerful audit planning tool that assigns priority based on confi gurable prioritization factors that could include risk or criticality of the audited process, required audit frequency, quality or performance issues, previous audit results, etc. This provides users with an objective method of selecting audits into the overall plan.
Once the audit plan is approved the selected audits are exported to Auditor for assignment to your audit teams.
Phase 2: Audit Preparation
VisiumKMS – Auditor enables you to create custom protocols and checklists, which can be tailored to individual sites or business units, to support any required audit or review. Selection of a protocol automatically populates the questions to the audit record; however, additional custom questions can be added to any audit. Confi dential audits can be restricted to allow access by the audit team and sponsor only.
Phase 3: Audit Process
VisiumKMS – Auditor collects all the data related to an audit, i.e. responses to audit questions, findings, recommendations, completion date vs. target, and more. Auditors can attach relevant documents, drawings or photos to support their fi ndings. Recommendations can be cross-linked to multiple audit questions and fi ndings.
Phase 4: Corrective Action Request
VisiumKMS – Auditor is seamlessly integrated with VisiumKMS – Resolution Tracker. Once the audit is complete, the auditor’s recommendations are exported to Resolution Tracker.
Phase 5: Corrective Action Follow Up
VisiumKMS – BadgerMail ensures that corrective actions are assigned to action owners and followed up in a timely fashion, with automatic escalation of overdue items to management. Overall audit program compliance and eff ectiveness can be monitored using VisiumKMS – Risk Intelligence dashboards and reports purpose-designed by professional auditors.
