Drawing a checklist

Answer:

If you want to develop a checklist to audit top management you should start with the purpose of the audit: Is it to check conformity? Is it to check effectiveness? Let us suppose that it is to check conformity. Then, you should collect the audit criteria (Quality policy, quality objectives, procedures, ISO 9001 and any other external documentation that sets rules for the organization (for example, legislation).

Now is the time to develop the checklist:

Read the audit criteria, and ask yourself: Is this true? Are we doing this? Be suspicious, be cynical and underline all topics that mess with you and your curiosity. Then, for each topic start to list questions that you want to ask (where and to whom), things that you want to observe being done (where and when), things that you want to verify (where).

Now it is just a matter of organizing all those questions, observations and verifications to be done, along an itinerary for your audi t (when in one place you do everything there, to avoid come to a place, walk away and then come back again)

The following material will provide you information about checklists:

- ISO 9001 – ISO 9001 Audit Checklist - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/iso-9001-audit-checklist/
Internal Audit Checklist [ISO 9001:2015] - https://advisera.com/9001academy/documentation/internal-audit-checklist/
ISO Internal Audit: A Plain English Guide https://advisera.com/books/iso-internal-audit-plain-english-guide/
- free online training ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course – https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
- book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/