Stage 1 - Visit
Before carrying out your assessment, we need to find out if you're ready. We do this at our first visit. We'll normally carry out the stage 1 visit on site.
Carrying out the visit
During the visit we will:
- evaluate the location and specific conditions of your organisation
- hold discussions with members of your organisation to find out how prepared you are for the second visit
- see how well you understand the requirements of the standard and what your progress is towards meeting them
- collect information on the scope of your management system, the processes and locations of your organisation and the related statutory, regulatory and compliance aspects. For example, these could include the environmental or legal aspects of your organisation's operation and the risks associated with them
- agree the details of visit 2 and see how we allocate LRQA's resources for it
- try to understand your management system and operations so we know what to focus on in the planning of the second visit
- see if your organisation is planning and performing internal audits and a management review
- check that the level of implementation of the management system is high enough for us to carry out our stage 2 visit.
Reporting
We will document the results from this visit and communicate them to you before the assessment team leaves. We'll tell you if we have any areas of concern that could be classed as a non-conformity during the stage 2 assessment.
The time between the two visits will depend on how long we think it will take you to resolve any areas of concern from the first visit.
The link below will take you to details of the second assessment stage, where we will carry out your initial assessment.
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