Auditing

Supply Chain Audits

Internal Audits

The QSS Group Ltd can provide a wide range of audit and assessment services of your Engineering, Safety, Quality and Environmental systems, from initial reviews of activities to in-depth compliance audits. An effective auditing regime provides safeguards from risk, including possible breaches of legislation, the measurement of consistency and control and feeds the process of continual improvement.

We can audit against:

Legislation
Industry requirements and best practice (e.g. RM3)
Industry improvement programmes (LHSBR etc.)
International standards (ISO / OHSAS)
Your own system policies, procedures and processes

We provide organisations with a validation of processes and resources to ensure that you can carry out:

Supplier and product assessments by a quantitative approach, assessing technical and commercial issues.
Cost effective evaluation of suppliers of safety critical products and services
Demonstrate where necessary compliance with specifications and technical standards.
Use cost-effective measurements to identify the root cause of the problem to enable effective, corrective and preventative action targets to be set.

The QSS Group Ltd can provide Internal Audits to ensure your organisation's risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively.

By carrying out an internal audit we can look at important issues within your organisation including company growth, reputation and employee morale. This all culminates in ensuring that your organisations processes and controls are working correctly and keeping the organisation on track to achieve its goals.

During an internal audit we will:

Assess the management of risk
Advise managers at all levels
Evaluate and assist the improvement of internal controls
Analyse and assist the improvement of operations

Why Choose Us for your Supply Chain Audits?

An audit is a learning experience from which business improvements can develop. The training and experience of our Auditors enables the construction of the highest quality audit plan to ensure the discovery and presentation of not only corrective actions but also identifying good practice in a collaborative and friendly manner. We also employ up to date data mining techniques to simplify complex systems into the essential requirements so that audits of large and complex systems can be delivered cost effectively.

We have historical and practical experience of using bespoke measurement tools in our audits, such as the UK RM3 model for Safety Maturity. We can also provide independent system audits to meet industry minimum standards.