INTERNAL QUALITY AUDIT (AKD)

The Internal Quality Audit is a visit held to assess whether UMK's Quality Management System is implemented in a controlled and effective manner as planned. AKD is conducted once a year where this audit is very important in reducing non-compliance or the findings of violations against any of the MS ISO 9001:2015 requirements used at UMK.

Internal Audit Quality is conducted with the following purposes:

1. Ensuring compliance to the requirements of internal, international and industry standards & regulations, and customer requirements
2. To determine the effectiveness of the implemented system in meeting specified objectives (quality, environmental, financial)
3. To explore opportunities for improvement
4. To meet statutory and regulatory requirements
5. To provide feedback to Top Management

Selection of Auditors

Competence level may be measured by training, participation in previous audits and experience in conducting audits. Auditors may be external or internal personnel; however, they should be in a position to be impartial and objective. When UMK staff are selected to perform an audit, a mechanism needs to be established to ensure objectivity, for instance, a representative from another department may be selected to do the audit. Audits are demanding and require various forms of expertise. The size of the audit team will vary pending the size of the organization, size and type of operations and the scope of the audit.

The following principles relate to auditors:

1.  Ethical Conduct: Trust, integrity, confidentiality and discretion are essential to auditing
2. Fair presentation: Audit findings, conclusions and reports reflect truthfully and accurately the audit activities
3. Professional care: Auditors must exercise care in accordance with the importance of the task they perform
4. Independence: Auditors must be independent of the activity being audited and be objective
5. Evidence-based approach: Evidence must be verifiable and be based on samples of the information available.