After the audit has been conducted, the next step is for the Audit Owner to prepare the audit report and create any necessary findings.
If any processes or systems were identified that did not meet regulatory requirements, expected standards, or best practices, they will need to be recorded as Audit Findings.
To create an audit finding:
- Navigate to the Findings section of the Audit record and click Create.
- Provide a Title and Description of the finding.
- Select a Rating for the finding. Critical, Major, and Minor findings require responses and require those responses to be approved.
- Critical findings represent significant risks to safety or compliance.
- Major findings are less severe than critical but are still a significant risk.
- Minor findings do not pose an immediate risk but need to be addressed to avoid future issues.
- Recommendations are suggestions offered by auditors to improve processes, mitigate risks. or enhance compliance.
- Click Save.
- Open each critical, major, or minor finding and click Define Team to add the finding Owner and QA Approver(s). Do not change the Audit Owner.
- For external audits and findings, the finding owner is the internal person responsible for managing and documenting the finding response from the supplier.
- For internal audits and findings, the finding owner is the person who is responsible for addressing this particular problem that was found as part of the audit.