Diagnostic Audits/Training courses/Consulting services based on IFS Food version 7

Diagnostic Audits/Training courses/Consulting services based on IFS Food version 7

Audit is a modern and powerful tool for organization’s management, necessary for them to make effective decisions, both regarding the internal processes, as well as in relation with the suppliers and other partners.

INAQ Consulting provides internal and second party audit services, ensured by an unique audit team on the Romanian market, because of their high level of qualification and experience and, also, because of the number and complexity of the covered areas.

 

The typical stages of implementing a IFS Global Markets Food or IFS Food version 7 management system are the following:

1. Initial assessment audit 

• Devising a diagnostic audit of the current management system in order to ascertain the initial degree of conformity with the requirements of applicable standards;
• Analyzing the results of the diagnostic audit and elaborating the program for implementing the management system.

2. Consultancy for designing the system

• Consultancy for identifying and documenting the processes of the organization;
• Consultancy for identifying the activities, products and services of the organization, listing them and linking them to the list of processes that has been previously identified;
• Consultancy for identifying the legal requirements applicable to the organization;
• Consultancy for establishing the policy in the field of quality / product safety / environment / work safety and health / information security;
• Consultancy for establishing the objectives and goals regarding the management system;
• Consultancy for establishing the indicators for monitoring the accomplishment of the objectives;
• Consultancy for establishing the main critical points (HACCP, IFS Global Markets Food or IFS Food version 7);
• Consultancy for developing the system procedures;
• Consultancy for developing the operational procedures, work instructions, job descriptions and the necessary forms for keeping the records of the management system;
• Consultancy for developing the management system manual.

3. School audit

• Preparing and performing an IFS Global Markets Food or IFS Food version 7 audit of the designed management system, which is carried out by INAQ Consulting auditors;
• This audit results in identifying the implementation degree of the management system and its documentation, verifying the recordings that substantiate this stage of implementation, determining the causes that generated nonconformities and identifying the possibilities for improving the system.

4. Determination and monitoring of corrective, preventive actions 

Evaluating the nonconformities observed by INAQ Consulting auditors and internal auditors during the previous stage (teaching audit), implementing programs of corrective actions aiming to prevent the nonconformities from re-occurring, as well as possible preventive actions and establishing guidelines for improving and optimizing the efficiency of the newly formed management system.

5. Pre-certification audit

This stage consists in an audit with INAQ Consulting auditors, who are independent of the development of the entire consultancy project, for the final evaluation of the current management system before the audit performed by the certification authority. This implies preparing and conducting the audit, developing the auditing report and pointing out the possible corrective actions.

6. Improvement actions

Implementing the improvement possibilities, as well as solving the possible nonconformities left in the system, which are identified during the pre-certification audit.