Standards The ISO 9000 family regards the international standards applicable to quality management systems or QMS in an organization. No single checklist is universally applicable organizations create their own checklist tweaked to their specific industry. The ISO does not require checklists, but organizations conducting internal audits use checklists as a guide to addressing human resource issues within the organizations.
Organizations undertake internal audits before the external audits done by registrars for the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, before issuing a certificate of compliance. Internal audits collate facts about the functions and processes in an organization so as to gauge the extent to which standards are being met.
