STEEL KONNECT (INDIA) PVT. LTD.

SKIPL /QA/P - 04
PROCEDURE MANUAL PAGE : 1 OF 2
REVISION : 00
PROCEDURE FOR INTERNAL QUALITY AUDIT
DATE : 01.02.2013

1.0 PURPOSE:
To verify the conformance of quality related activities as documented in quality management system
manual.

2.0 SCOPE:
To ensure effective implementation of quality management system requirements of the organization.

3.0 PROCEDURE:
Internal quality audits shall carried out once in a year. Auditors shall not be from auditee department.
Before each audit, the Management Representative shall prepare a schedule for internal quality audit
covering the scope of audit and shall intimate persons responsible for auditing. Audit program is
planned, taking into consideration the status and importance of the processes and areas to be
audited, as well as the results of previous audits The schedule for audit shall be circulated to head of
department be audited and auditors. MR shall guide the internal auditors to identify the scope of audit
applicable for internal quality audit, while auditing an auditee.

MR shall prepare the checklist for internal quality audit as per the applicable standards / specification.
Auditors shall conduct audit as per importance of activities of auditee and shall record the clauses
under which auditee has been audited in the checklist.
Head of departments to be audited has to ensure availability of all related manuals to auditors
before the audit. The auditors shall verify the implementation of documented quality management
system and its effectiveness as per the scope of audit. The auditors will also verify the status of NCR
of previous audit in respective departments. After the audit, the auditor will prepare an audit report
and submit a copy to concerned department Head and management representative.
The auditor shall discuss the non conformity with the Head of department audited and shall record
the time frame for corrective action as agreed by Head of department in the Internal Quality Audit
report. The Head of department audited shall be responsible for determining the root cause taking
appropriate corrective action to eliminate detected non conformities and likelihood of reoccurrence.
During audit, the auditor shall thoroughly check the previous non conformity and its records. The
management representative shall ensure that the copy of this procedure sheet is available with all
members of audit team. The internal auditor who preformed or directly supervised the activity being
audited shall be trained for ISO 9001:2008 awareness and internal quality audit or participated as
auditor with trained auditor.

Prepared By Reviewed By Approved By

Engineer QC Head QA&C Management Representative

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PROCEDURE MANUAL PAGE : 2 OF 2
REVISION : 00
PROCEDURE FOR INTERNAL QUALITY AUDIT
DATE : 01.02.2013

4.0 CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF THE AUDITORS & COMPETENCE OF THE AUDITOR:
For the Internal Quality Audit, the personnel who completed the 2 days Course of the Internal
Auditors or who participated in the 5 days Lead Auditors course will be selected. For getting the
approval for the Individual Auditing, those who full fill the above requirements shall have the auditing
experience for at least one internal Audit along with the Qualified Internal Auditor.i.e. As an observer.
After completing the three internal Audits as an observer, he will be qualified as an Independent
internal auditor after submitting the reports for the Internal Audits attended as an Observer.

5.0 RANDOM SELECTION OF THE INTERNAL AUDITORS:

Sr.No Department Dept. of the Specialist if required Main Auditor in

Internal Auditor ( For Technical support) Case of fresher
Internal Auditor
01 Production QA/QC HOD-QA/QC MR
02 Mechanical /Elec. Production HOD-Production MR
03 QA/QC Production HOD-Production MR
04 Store / Despatch Purchase -- MR
05 Marketing QA/QC -- MR
07 Purchase Electrical -- MR
08 Safety & MR Production/QC Head QA/C --
09 Human Resource Mechanical -- MR
10 Top Management -- Head Production MR

The auditor’s selection as mentioned above is on random; it can be change with the availability of the
Internal Auditors from the respective departments.
Prior approval shall be taken from the auditee for the selected auditors.

6.0 REFERENCE DOCUMENT:

Cl. No. 8.2.2 of QSM and Approval list of internal auditors, Schedule of internal audit, Internal Audit
check list, yearly internal audit plan & Audit summery report.

Prepared By Reviewed By Approved By

Engineer QC Head QA&C Management Representative