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Stay Focused!
Stay Focused! I don’t know how many times I have yelled that to myself, in my head of course, during an audit. Sometimes staying focused on the task at hand can be difficult, and if it’s during an audit, it’s important. During an audit there is a lot of information to process, and inevitably you…
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Breakdown vs Preventive Maintenance
Breakdown versus Preventive Maintenance, this is the dilemma of every auditor when visiting the maintenance department: When do you insist on preventive maintenance? First you need to understand the difference. Breakdown maintenance is when the organization only conducts maintenance on a piece of equipment when the equipment breaks down. Preventive, and even predictive maintenance, is when an…
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Qualities of an Audit Team Leader
Welcome back, school is in session, life is back to normal, it’s fall. This time of year is a peak in auditing work for 3rd party auditors, so there will be a lot lessons learned and a lot for me to share for the next couple of months. So, what does it mean to be…
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