ISO 19011:2018 - Guidelines for auditing management systems

Annex A

(informative)

Additional guidance for auditors planning and conducting audits

A.13 Preparing audit work documents

When preparing audit work documents, the audit team should consider the questions below for each document.

a) Which audit record will be created by using this work document?

b) Which audit activity is linked to this particular work document?

c) Who will be the user of this work document?

d) What information is needed to prepare this work document?;

For combined audits, work documents should be developed to avoid duplication of audit activities by:

- clustering of similar requirements from different criteria;

coordinating the content of related checklists and questionnaires.

The audit work documents should be adequate to address all those elements of the management system within the audit scope and may be provided in any media.;