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QUALITY AUDIT
by Auditor & Auditee Relations
A part of Quality Assurance
First Party Audit
Internal audits are the first-party audits and are audits of an organization’s product, process or system conducted by employees of the organization.
Second Party Audit
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Third Party Audit
A third-party audit is performed by an audit organization independent of the customer-supplier relationship and is free of any conflicts of interest, Independence of the audit organization is a key component of the third-party audit.
The audit may result in certification, registration, recognition, an award, license approval and etc. An example of a third-party audit is the audit conducted on an organization by certification bodies eg, SIRIM QAS International for the purpose of certification to ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
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