When you are configuring an Auditing programme you will be able to choose between three different kinds of audits:

1. Internal Audits: This is the type of programme used the most often as it is for regular audits within your facility e.g. GMP audits, BRC internal audits or health & safety audits etc.
2. Site Audits: This type of programme allows you to conduct audits on your Sites.
3. Site Self-Assessments: You may invite Site contacts to participate in the Audit Portal and complete self-assessment audits you generate for them.

Internal Audits are conducted internally by the auditor and there is no need for collaboration with a third party. However, if you want to audit for example one of your production facilities, and involve the staff as Auditees, you can set up first a Site in the Contacts module and then create a Site Audit Program. The difference here is that you can now invite the auditees to participate in the audit through the Audit Portal where they can fill in details, submit files, etc.

NOTE: The Audit Portal is not part of the Food Safety Management Solution (it's not available to all customers).

1. The name of the audit programme.
2. Select the type of programme: Internal Audit, Site Audit or Site Self-Assessment
3. You can define the department to which the audit relates to.
4. Select the risk of the audit programme and provide justification in the report section.
5. The Auditor in charge of conducting the audit. This is simply the responsible person who completes the records that generate from the programme. Click the Add Line button to add more responsible people.

1. Select the type Site Audit.
2. Select which Site you want the audit to be associated with.
3. Determine which department this Audit is about.
4. Select the risk of this programme.
5. Define the auditors in charge of the Site Audit Programme.

1. Select Site Self Assessment from the Type drop-down.
2. Select which Site you want the audit to be associated with. Selecting the Site is important so that you can invite your Site contacts to participate in the audit through the Audit Portal.
3. Determine which department this Audit is about.
4. Select the risk of this programme.
5. Define the auditors in charge of the programme.

See the article on programme scheduling for further assistance.

1. If applicable, select any auditees required to be present during the audit. You can leave this blank and complete this in the record.
2. If there are any associated documents for the audit programme you can select them here. The user completing the record that generates from this programme will be able to click on the documents to view them.

1. Select the relevant audit checklist from either your own uploaded Checklists or from system checklists provided by Safefood 360° (All major GFSI standards are available as checklists). You can select multiple checklists at once by ticking all the necessary boxes. Once you are done picking all the necessary checklists click 'Select'.
2. The rating allows you to make use of the automatic audit scoring capabilities. The software can calculate your audit score based on a Rating you have already predefined. Alternatively, there is a standard 'Yes / No / Not Applicable' default rating offered. To learn more click the link below.
3. After choosing a rating you can set the default response which will appear against the questions in the checklist. If the rating you have chosen doesn't have responses as they are built into the checklist, you need to ensure you choose 'Use Checklist Responses'.
4. You can choose to enable a summary table or responses table. The summary table will appear in the result stage of the record and analyses the sections of the checklist (score provided for each section if scoring is enabled) and shows which sections had non-conformances raised. The responses table analyses the responses given to the questions.

Click this link for further assistance on how to create a rating that can be used in this segment.