ISO19011:2018 has provided a new edition of the ISO19011 standard, which saves money, time, and costs with a uniform approach to multiple audit management systems. In today’s business world, there are many organizations that use a large number of management systems such as quality management system, environment, IT services and information security. As a result, it should be said that these organizations want to combine the audit of these systems as much as possible.

Compared to the first edition of the ISO 19011 standard, which was presented in 2002 only for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, the scope of ISO 19011:2011, called Management Systems Audit Guide, is for thinking about and combining audits of different management systems (multiple audits). management system standard) has been prepared.

This standard helps organizations in optimizing and facilitating the integration of management system components and leads to facilitating and auditing a component of the organization’s management systems, influencing the audit process, reducing repetitions and reducing defects during the audit.

ISO 19011:2011 also provides guidance for internal and external audit engagement. The audience of this standard is auditors, audit leadership team, audit program managers, management systems organizations and organizations that need to participate in audits.