Plan the programme

Open Audits › Programme. If there is no programme yet, select Start the programme.

The five steps

1. The cycle. Choose a start month and a length — 12, 24 or 36 months — and the regulations the programme monitors compliance with. Each length says what it suits.

2. Areas. Give each area an interval (6, 12, 24 or 36 months) and the checklist it is audited with. Wingcert suggests an interval from the area’s risk and its last audit.

3. Suppliers. Each supplier falls due on its own interval, from the supplier register.

4. The timeline. Month by month, with each audit placed. Select Move audits on the timeline to adjust any of them.

5. Approval. Submit it. Somebody holding Close out completed audits who did not prepare or change it approves it.

How Wingcert places audits

• An audit falls due its interval after the area’s last audit.
• Areas never audited in Wingcert are spread through their first interval, so a first programme does not start with every area at once.
• An audit is never placed after it falls due, and at most two months early.
• Months are filled against your lead auditors — two audits per lead per month, to begin with — so nobody is asked to run five in March.
• If you move an audit past its due date, it is flagged for the approver.

Revisions

The programme changes as the year does. Each change is a new revision: drafted, then approved independently. When it is approved, its lines are kept exactly as worded that day, and the previous revision is kept as superseded.

To add a single audit, use Add one by hand on the programme page. Audits suggested by the programme advisor or by a signal arrive on the draft revision too, and are approved like any other change.

Re-planning replaces only the lines Wingcert placed. Lines you added by hand, or from the advisor or a signal, stay where they are.

Coverage

Audits › Coverage shows which paragraphs in scope your published checklists ask about, on the revision in force. A paragraph counts when a question asks about it, or about anything beneath it.