Contract Auditing

How do you feel about your internal audit program?

A couple of times a year, as an auditor, I run into a situation where the incumbent quality manager leaves, a new person is put in his or her place, and it is discovered that the internal audit program has not been maintained. You need an internal audit to maintain your ISO system.

Sometimes it is wise to regularly outsource part or all of your internal audit program every year. I am someone with a lot of experience that does this kind of work all the time. I know the quality systems standards, and can tell you right away where the issues are. I have several satisfied clients who rely on me to do their internal audit every year, thus getting it out of the hair of the local quality system management.

I do “contract auditing” for a variety of clients (my project list is on the “About Jim Shell” page). What this means is I will come into your business, give you a registrar-quality internal audit, which is what I do, and that will fulfill the internal auditing requirements of the standard.

ISO Quality Systems Deployment

You’ve made the decision to get registered to the ISO standard, and you need to shorten the learning curve. A lot of times this is because of some imminent new business that is around the corner, and you are on a limited time line.

I can shorten that learning curve.

As an auditor I’ve done more than 30 first-time ISO registrations, for three different registrars. I take a lot of time to do the communication of what the standard requirements are, and how your current operating procedures and methods can be fit to the ISO standard to achieve conformity.

As a consultant in ISO deployment I have experience in implementing new ISO systems in a variety of industries.

Did you have ISO registration at one point, and let it lapse? I can give you a gap analysis and to-do list telling you exactly the steps you need to take to be ISO conformant.

All of this shortens the learning curve, and removes the doubt. Wisdom is valuable, and here is some: Not everybody should be ISO registered. PS: You can expect some straight talk.

Quality Systems Training

As a blogger with over a million page views, a producer of entertaining videos with viewership of over 120,000, and writer of original content, I can provide entertaining quality systems training about a variety of topics, which will help you spread knowledge throughout your organization about the ISO quality standard, problem solving, and other important topics.

Training Opportunities

ISO Requirements

Root Cause Analysis

Internal Auditing

Corrective Actions and Problem Solving

Employee Training (all different levels of the company)

ISO Deployment

Management Responsibility and Leadership

I have experience training at the Dow 30 level, training materials are available, and I have a lot of real-life experience in quality systems issues at the major corporation level to draw upon to illustrate some of these issues.

What Not to Say during an ISO Audit

This is my most popular series on You Tube: A pre-audit training on “What Not to Say”. Audit preparation is one of my strengths.