Free checklist
Walk into your certification audit knowing what happens
The first audit is mostly nerves. An auditor isn't trying to catch you out — they're sampling your system to see whether it's real and whether you use it. This checklist covers the fortnight before, the day itself, and the week after.
What's inside
- Stage 1 versus Stage 2 — what each covers and what usually goes wrong
- Tick-box preparation lists for two weeks before and the week before
- The thirteen records auditors ask for by name
- The questions your people get asked, and the one sentence to brief them on
- How findings are graded and what closing one actually takes
Who it's for
Anyone with a Stage 1 date in the calendar and no idea what to expect — especially the person who inherited the quality system along with their real job.
Written by someone who runs a quality system
Compliantly is built by an ISO 9001 practitioner running a real QMS on it — a manufacturer with four sites, not a software company guessing at what auditors want. The app writes your documents from your business and keeps the registers that hold your evidence.