Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

7.4.1. Introduction
7.4. QUALITY ASSURANCE AUDIT
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7. Quality Assurance
Quality auditing is a prescribed work practice or process. There is a preferred sequential
order of activities that should be performed to conduct a proper quality audit. The audits
serve to provide the management an impartial and objective assessment or evaluation of
quality of performance. In the absence of such evaluation, the management might
persuade itself that everything is going well. It is very difficult to assess one’s
performance and performance could then deteriorate without management being aware of
it. That is why it is a common practice throughout organizations to conduct audits as a
normal activity under the Quality Assurance (QA) program.
7.4.2. Audit Requirement
As for all other QA related activities, the first step is to establish a written policy and
procedure. The audit procedure shall address following:
Responsibility, authority and organizational independence of auditors;
Provisions for access by audit teams to levels of management which have the
responsibility and authority to implement corrective actions;
Provision for use of specialists;