Types of audit

This article describes the types of audits in AOH

Initial certification audit

This audit type applies to:

• Producers seeking GLOBALG.A.P. certification for the first time
• Producers who want to add a new product to an already existing GLOBALG.A.P. certificate
• Producers changing their status from producer group member to individual producer

Audit for sites and members

They are related to Option 2 (group certification) and Option 1 multisite with QMS certification processes. These are CB farm audits conducted during any Certification audit process, when CBs sample the correspondent number of registered members/sites: (Minimum) square root of the total number of registered members/sites. 

Surveillance audit for sites and members

They are related to Option 2 (group certification) and Option 1 multisite with QMS certification processes. These are CB farm audits conducted during any CB surveillance audit process, when CBs sample the correspondent number of registered members/sites: (Minimum) 50% of the square root of the actual number of certified members/sites.

Subsequent audit

This audit type. applies to those annual certification audits scheduled for renewing the certificate. 

When a producer changes from one CB to another, or from a GLOBALG.A.P. standard to an approved modified checklist or an equivalent certification scheme (or the other way around), it is considered a subsequent audit.

Recertification audit

They are related to the new concept of 3 years cycle. They will be any 1st audit in version 6 of a certificate holder with a valid IFA version 5.2 or IFA version 5-4-1-GSF certificate. After this fist re-certification audit, the grower will have subsequent 1 and Subsequent 2 audits. Recertification audits also applies to the next certification audit (subsequent 3).

During recertification audits in AOH, the auditor will generates a new checklist from scratch. In subsequent 1 and Subsequent 2 AOH will allow the auditor to re-use justifications, answers and comments from previous checklists. 

Follow-up on-site audit

This audit type applies to on site assessments scheduled to follow up any non-conformance or any deviation that can not be checked remotely (using documents, pictures or any other evidence that can be sent by email). This would also applies when CB needs to follow up any complaint. 

Modification audit

This audit type applies to any audit (on site or remote) scheduled for any scope extension (e.g. new members of a group, new sites of a producer, a change in the number of Has, etc.)