Audit Process
1. What is Membership Auditing?
It is a process whereby your business and how it is operated can be compared against the Codes of Practice that should govern that business.
The purpose is to ensure that members who carry the NZSA certification have been audited against their relevant Code(s) of Practice and are subject to interim audits and mentoring, if required, to continue to maintain those high standards. Auditing is simply a means of ensuring that companies comply with their relevant Codes of Practice and, if they do not, a mentoring process is put in place to enable them to comply.
2. Why audit members?
Being a member of a professional organisation like NZSA, is a point of difference that you will be able to promote to your clients. It shows that your company complies with the requirement of membership by complying with Codes of Practice.
Some companies, such as consultants and suppliers, do not have Codes of Practice and so do not have to be audited.
3. Who will be audited?
Applicants for Corporate membership and current Corporate Members, where there is a Code of Practice that is under the auditing programme; and Vehicle Security members. These operate under Codes of Practice.
4. Cost of an audit
The Board sets the fee and this can change at any time.
The current fees are:
Alarm Monitoring and Alarm Monitoring Centre - $397 site fee + $397.00 for the monitoring and $397 for the centre, plus GST. Total cost $1191 plus GST.
All other codes - $370 site fee + $370 per code, plus GST.
5. The Audit Process
Before being audited, a member is asked to ‘self audit' themselves against the Codes of Practice. If the Code of Practice does not have a note that it is auditable, then they do not apply. At present not all Codes have a ‘self audit' sheet at the back of the Code. If the member or applicant has not self audited against the code of practice by the appointed time, then it will be completed during the audit.
The Auditor visits the company and undertakes the audit with the owner.
The Auditor will work through any concerns with the owner.
6. The Auditor
Auditors are appointed by the NZSA Board and are people that have skills and knowledge within the field of the audit. They are appointed for a period of twelve months and sign a formal agreement that includes confidentiality and an undertaking to acknowledge any conflict of interest.
After an Auditor has been selected a member can advise the Association if they see there is a conflict of interest and another auditor will be arranged
7. Auditors Report
The final report is passed onto the Association, with a copy to the audited company.
If the Auditor advises that the member complies, a Certificate of Compliance is sent to the company. On receiving the certificate the member is known as an Accredited Member of NZSA
Audit compliance is valid for two years. |
