Surveillance audit guidance for a mining company

Surveillance audits are made by the certification body after a successful certification audit. While certification audits verify system design and implementation, surveillance audits are more about checking conformity with procedures and the standard.

After certification, your organization will perform one or more internal audits every year. Objectives for those audits can be around verifying that your management system is working as designed. You can add more value and introduce an element of effectiveness and use the audit to verify if the quality management system is helping the organization in meeting its objectives. Those audits are similar to any other audit. Perhaps you can focus your attention on records. Are all the incidents being recorded? Measurements, complaints, corrective actions, non-conformities, internal audits, and management review, etc. Remember, if your organization had any minor non-conformity or observations during the certification audit, be sure that auditors will look into those issues with special care.

The following material will provide you more information about surveillance audits:
- What is an ISO 9001 surveillance audit? - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2016/10/18/what-is-an-iso-9001-surveillance-audit/
- Surveillance visits vs. certification audits - https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/surveillance-visits-vs-certification-audits/
- Enroll for free course - ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-internal-auditor-course/
- Book – Preparing for ISO Certification Audit: A Plain English Guide - https://advisera.com/books/preparing-for-iso-certification-audit-plain-english-guide/