Third party certification audits are planned at a frequency and duration to meet the requirements of JAS-ANZ. Notice, that statement did not mention your needs, when in fact if there is only one; certification, . then you must play by JAS-ANZ rules.
Now the overarching guideline for planning frequency and duration is whether the entire quality management system of your organisation (or more importantly, those sites and activities within the scope of your certification) can be audited over the course of 3 years.
The physicality of the above statement is based on geographic and demographic considerations and then just many auditor days or hours it will take. Now I have blogged before about demographics and the numbers game between FTEs, how many people are doing the same job, etc. But they all impact on the final number.
Once the gross number of days or hours are determined, then it is a matter of choice but mostly your certification body’s. The end result might be for a 12 auditor day certification, you might end up with this scenario; 3 days for certification audit (2 auditors for 1 day, 1 auditor for the 3rd), then 1 auditor for 1 day every 6 months (or 2 auditors for one day every 12 months) plus in the second year, the sample plan for your multi-site system, may need all branches to be audited at half a day per site, per year, totalling 5 auditor days that year and the balance made up of annual events, more branch events, etc, etc, etc. My heads hurts just typing this stuff, so imagine what it is like to convince the CB to meet your needs as they balance their JAS-ANZ requirements.
The best thing to do is to keep the dialog open, keep the planning process fluid and to keep your options open with other CBs ready to give you the customer service you deserve.
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