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Internal Audit Planning (ISO 9001 Clause 6)

by Shaun Collins, from the Community

This internal audit planning checklist helps organizations assess compliance with ISO 9001:2015 Clause 6. It guides auditors through evaluating risks and opportunities, defining and cascading quality objectives, and planning changes across processes, documentation, infrastructure, tooling, and training. Prompts cover risk methodology, ownership and response actions, monitoring and review, and proportionate controls. It also includes sections for evidence capture, objective tracking, resource allocation, communication, and management review. The template supports logging opportunities for improvement and non‑conformances for follow‑up.

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Planning Clause 6 Internal Audit Record
This internal audit record supports ISO 9001 Planning Clause 6. It guides auditors to evaluate actions for risks and opportunities, quality objectives, and planned changes to the quality management system. Capture evidence, record observations and opportunities for improvement, log nonconformities, and link items to the audit tracker DW065. Use it to standardize audits, close findings, and improve system performance.
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Internal Audit 6 - ISO 9001 Planning Checklist
Use this ISO 9001 internal audit planning checklist to review clause 6 requirements in the context of your quality management system. Assess risks and opportunities, confirm quality objectives are measurable and aligned to policy, and evaluate the effectiveness of change management procedures. Capture evidence for conformity and nonconformity, document findings, and allocate corrective actions to responsible managers. Includes fields for site details, auditor, traceability, and sign off to complete the audit.
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Internal Audit 6 - Planning ISO 9001
Use this ISO 9001 Section 6 internal audit planning checklist to evaluate risk and opportunities, define and monitor quality objectives, and review change management practices. Capture evidence of conformity and nonconformity, plan actions, assign responsibility, and maintain traceability to support a robust quality management system.
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ISO 9001 Clause 7 Support Internal Audit Checklist
This internal audit checklist is designed to assess ISO 9001 Clause 7 Support requirements across your quality management system. It guides auditors through verifying resources and personnel, competence and awareness, infrastructure and work environment, monitoring and measuring resources, calibration and traceability, documented information control, and communication. The form captures mandatory checks, detailed evidence, observations, opportunities for improvement, and non-conformances, with prompts to log findings in the audit tracker. Ideal for quality managers and internal auditors seeking consistent, evidence-based audits that drive continual improvement and conformity of products and services.
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