Audit Readiness Self-Assessment

Check, area by area, whether the evidence an auditor will ask for is there and holds up, how long it takes to find, and which gaps need an owner and a date: with a plain readiness indicator you can check by hand.

Free to use, change and copy inside your own organization. Editable Excel, plus a fillable PDF you can complete on screen.

The problem it solves

Audit preparation eats weeks, and most of that time goes on finding evidence, not fixing the system: pulling records, chasing the people who hold them, and reconciling counts that do not agree. Gaps surface late, when there is no time left to close them. This self-assessment gives you 44 ready-made checks across 15 areas, each with the evidence to pull. You record where the evidence lives, how long it took to find, whether it is there and whether it holds up when someone opens it. Every gap gets a risk rating, an owner and a date, and the Summary shows a plain readiness count by area.

Who uses it, and when

Quality managers and directors preparing for a registrar, customer or internal audit, with the process owners who hold the records. Run it about 90 days before an audit, again at 30 days, and after any major change. Some shops run it quarterly as part of internal audit planning.

Part of

Internal Audit Execution.

Companion to

The Audit Ready Brief, issue 1: where audit prep time actually goes.

Clause references: 4 to 10; mainly 6.1, 7.1.5, 7.2, 7.5.3, 8.4, 8.5.2, 8.7, 9.2, 9.3, 10.2. Clause numbers only; the standards text is not reproduced, use your own licensed copy.

A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.

Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a worked example.