ISO LEAD AUDITOR

When it comes to ISO certification, most firms waste their lead auditors’ expertise on administrative tasks that could be handled by practically anyone. Absolute madness!

What savvy organisations should be doing instead is:

Using their ISO lead auditor as a specialist asset. Every minute they spend shuffling papers or hunting down basic documentation is money poorly applied.

They should be working on the things that secure the certification:

• Reviewing previous non-conformities identified in previous audits
• Planning the audit
• Focusing on critical compliance areas
• Conducting strategic gap analysis
• Reviewing and improving risk assessments

For both your initial certification and that upcoming renewal, what you’re buying isn’t just the auditor’s presence, but their intelligence and judgement. The clever approach is to ensure that these assets are deployed where needed.

Considering that your auditor has conducted hundreds of these reviews, they know; where the certification bodies will most likely probe; what documentation carries weight; and how to navigate the inevitable compliance challenges.

By streamlining the administrative aspects, strategically preparing documentation, and focusing their time on substantive compliance matters, you’ll achieve certification quicker and with significantly less organisational disruption.

The bottom line? Buying your auditor’s time strategically isn’t a cost; It’s an investment with extraordinary returns! Certification success with minimal business disruption. That’s the difference between organisations that struggle with ISO and those that leverage it for organisational improvement and more competitive advantage.