Strategic quality audit

The strategic quality audit to verify that the strategic plans of the organization address specified legal, environmental, safety, and market quality requirements. 

The implementation audit to verify that the documented practices are being followed and that there are no undocumented practices employed that affect quality. This can be divided into two parts, one addressing upper management and their implementation of the strategic plans and one addressing staff and their implementation of the procedures. 

The laboratory shall continnally improve the effectiveness of the qnality management system throngh the nse of the quality policy, quality objectives, audit results, analysis of data, corrective and preventive actions, and management review. Improvements can range from small-step ongoing continnal improvement activities to strategic breakthrough improvement projects. 

Quality assessments are a proactive mechanism for assessing overall operations and individual processes and systems. They should not solely be relied upon to become tools for identifying and highlighting individual problems, but as a strategic approach toward continuous improvement and forward quality. Here are some of the basic compliance and quality elements that should be included in a proactive iternal audit or QAP. 

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