Audits future trends

The audit team, through its systematic analysis, should document areas that require corrective action as well as where the process safety management system is effective. This provides a record of the audit procedures and findings and serves as a baseline of operation data for future audits. It will assist in determining changes or trends in future audits. 

In-depth evaluation of critical compliance and quality systems. Auditor gains valuable insight into the system, enhancing auditor knowledge for future audit activities. Good opportunity to identify product quality trends. 

Thus, the point made is that the interventions selected for emphasis should be those that are most meaningful and that have potential for performance improvement. The CCPS text implies that an audit system is to measure trends with respect to the four management systems listed and other leading indicators that may be chosen. It is also implied that performance standards are in place against which evaluations can be made by auditors. No reference is made in the text to numerical predictions of future performance. 

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