Maintaining and improving auditor competence

Auditors build, maintain, and improve their level of competence through consistent participation in audits, as well as regular professional development activities. Competence should be something that auditors and leaders of audit teams consistently work to improve. Auditors should keep their auditing competence up to date by actively participating in management system audits regularly and engaging in ongoing professional development. This might be accomplished by the acquisition of further job experience, training, self-study, mentoring, attendance at meetings, seminars, and conferences, or participation in any number of other pertinent activities.

The audit program manager is responsible for aiding the continual evaluation of the auditor’s performance in the audit team. Different types of training should be provided to upskill auditors as well as audit team leaders, based on the latest developments in auditing processes and technology...