What is an ISO 9001 checklist?

An ISO audit is an official assessment approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to determine if a company meets certain criteria. This usually involves, the development of a product or the provision of a service.

Using a digital checklist for an ISO 9001 audit helps assess the effectiveness of a company's quality management system (QMS) and whether it meets ISO 9001 requirements for certification. The templates are great tools to help implement a QMS and prepare for an ISO 9001:2015 certification audit.

Start with the ISO 9001:2015 failure analysis and internal audit checklist created with Lumiform. Use the digital tool to assess your organization's QMS, identify gaps and areas for improvement, and assign actions to the appropriate departments.

This article covers the following topics:

1. The Importance of ISO audits

2. The 7 Principles of ISO

3. Advantages of a Digital ISO Audit Checklist

4. Why Use Lumiform for ISO 9001 Audit?

The Importance of ISO Audits

The International Standardization Organisation (ISO) is a part of the Worlds Standards Cooperation (WSC). They develop and publish international standards. To meet these standards and their requirements, you should perform regular ISO audits to guarantee quality and safety within your products and services on international grounds.

The 7 Principles of ISO

The International Standardization Organisation has developed 7 principles for Quality Management to assist you to meet their requirements and get their certification. However, your main goal should not only be that certification but also (mainly) your own product quality. So what should you focus on in order to get that?

1. Focus on Your Customers

The customers are your most important focus. They are the people buying your product, using your product and recommending it. Therefore, they are the ones who have to be satisfied with your products. Only then they will buy it again, only then they will recommend it to their friends and families. But they will only be satisfied if your product or service has an excellent quality.

2. The Leadership

As the head of the organisation, it is the leadership’s job to establish the organisation’s objects thoroughly in order to lead the departments and teams and to be successful. Due to that, they are the ones to develop a quality management system and to choose a responsive qualified person responsible for the QMS and its appliance.

3. Involvement of Employees

Since the employees are mainly the people to actually produce the product or provide the service, they should be accurately informed of their task and in addition to that, they should have training whenever necessary. It is the leadership’s duty to provide the training and to decide whether an employee needs training or not.

4. Process Approach

The most efficient outcomes can be accomplished with the help of established processes. To be guided by a process can be helpful to have a better overview of what is going on and also to plan the procedures within the whole company. The leadership should announce a responsible person or a responsible team to organize the processes.

5. Improvement

The world is constantly changing, so should you! Improvements are very important for companies. Your customers will always look for something better and if you don’t give them something better, another company will.

6. Evidence-based Decision Making

Making decisions can be really risky. Wrong choices can lead to immense consequences, they could destroy your company. On the contrary, the right choice can increase your company’s reputation, improve your products and their quality and make you more successful. Therefore, you should analyse your product, whether your customers/clients like it and what they would like you to improve. In accordance to that, you could analyse your numbers, analyse your customers buying behaviour or implement customer questionnaires.

7. Relationship Management

An organisation and its management is not only influenced by their customers and leadership, but also by their interested parties, such as investors or suppliers. The organisation should work together with interested parties and have a common goal. They should communicate in a way that both parties know what is going on. In case of the supplier, for example, the supplier should know about the company’s quality standards and the supplier’s products should meet those standards.

Follow these principles above and keep them in mind when performing a quality management audit with one of Lumiform’s templates.

Advantages of a Digital ISO Audit Checklist

A digital checklist gives you the opportunity to easily perform your ISO audits anywhere and anytime, you only need your mobile device! You also have a great overview of your reports and the questions you’ve failed. Download a quality management system template and start right away with your inspection. You found a deficiency? Send it straight to your supervisor or a co-worker to take care of it, just by one click.

Why Use Lumiform for ISO 9001 Audit?

With Lumiform, you can implement a digital ISO audit checklist. You can either use one of our 9000 templates or create your own. But not only that. In addition, you can analyse the reports or share them with interested parties, other colleagues or your supervisor.

Safe time with our mobile app. No more paperwork, but also no more searching through your whole data since the Lumiform App is clearly arranged.

Advantages:

• Comprehensive analyses help you to identify inefficient areas in your company more quickly and thus to continuously improve your audit processes.


• Generate real-time data via internal processes. This makes quality and security measurable and you can use the data to continuously optimize processes.


• Increase the efficiency of your internal processes: Through more efficient communication within the team, with third parties and with management, as well as faster incident reporting, you solve incidents up to 4x faster than before.


• Save time by analyzing all data more easily and identifying areas that need your attention more quickly.


• Continuous improvement of quality and safety: With the flexible checklist construction kit you can constantly optimize internal tests and processes. Since Lumiform guides the examiner through the exam, no training is required.


• The very simple operation offers no margin for error for inspectors on site. The app offers less complexity in documenting or filling out checklists than complicated paper or Excel lists.


• Depending on the application, tests are carried out about 30%-50% faster or faster.