The CleanAir System
Internal Audit Suggestions
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The CleanAir System
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Internal Audit Suggestions
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ASTM,NELAC and EDIG meeting have pointed to the need for occasional internal audits. We should develop a CleanAir policy on internal audits such as: 
SUGGESTED INTERNAL AUDIT POLICY 2000 CleanAir will do occasional internal audits of processes for planning, business development, project management, quality, accounting, safety, environment and other functions as needed.
INTERNAL AUDIT GUIDANCE Audits will be done to access conformance to a written policy, standard, procedure, regulation or a combination of these. Audits can be announced or unannounced. Initial audits should be announced. Audits can be done to benchmark on other departments. i.e. Rentals could do an audit of Express where the main purpose is learning a process such as purchasing. Within reason there is no limit on which team can audit another. Internal audit should always be scheduled before an announced external audit. Announced audits will include processes to be audited. I would like finalize this policy by Oct 31, 2000. SUGGESTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS PLEASE. Bill Walker ~ September 2000  
Suggestions: If this is a proposal to just let anyone audit anyone else whenever they feel like it, I don't think it will work. The main obstacle, I think, is lack of impetus for the potential auditors. If you don't have to do it, would anyone out there take it upon themselves today to go out and do an audit? We are conditioned to do things that make money - auditing is not high on that list, with no real direct line of sight to profit (I'm not saying that there isn't an indirect line). A second issue is one of consistency and training of auditors. The only way that value can be gained from an audit is for the auditors to do a good job - this requires training, procedures and focus. I think that if we want to do this we should do it through a group of people who, for a limited amount of time on a periodic basis, focus all of their energies on auditing. This time can be maybe as short as a couple of weeks a year. This group should be hand-picked by upper management, and management should also provide the basic requirements that it expects the audit to meet, as well as the processes or groups to audit. The results of the audit are presented to those being audited and to management. These two factions must then decide how to utilize the findings in a way that benefits the company as a whole. Jim Wright ~ September 2000 Internal audits are fine but I second Jim's comment that it would be counter-productive to start running around doing audits until we have some sort of audit procedure, which includes auditor training. We need to define what the objectives of the audit are. Finally, let's not get benchmarking and auditing confused. They are separate items. Clean Air Engineering Scott ~ September 2000
Reply to: RE: Internal Audits I second that emotion Brenton Berridge, P.E. ~ September 2000 Manager, Houston Regional Office
I'm sure Express would be delighted to have Rentals audit them! Maybe we could perform an unannounced one! :) mr ~ September 2000
To follow up on Jim's note, as a matter of fact, why don't we hire about 120 people to sit on the second floor of the new buildiiiiii .......... ut oh, we've been there before, haven't we. Sorry, I've only had about 3 days off in the last five weeks. I'll be working this weekend and the next before going in the field the week of Oct 8. From my current busy situation, audit me all you want. I probably won't pay any attention to anybody unless you're a customer that I'm late on getting results out to
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