The Audit Team
Before planning audits, appropriate audit teams must be set up and their roles and responsibilities assigned.
Tools are available that enable definition and display of the skills of team members.
An auditor is a person with the competence to conduct an audit (source ISO 19011:2002)Creating an Auditor
To create an auditor, you must create a user and assign the "Auditor" profile.
For more information on creation of users and assignment of roles, see chapter "Managing Users" in the HOPEX Power Supervisor guide.
Managing Auditor Skills
HOPEX Internal Audit enables management and viewing of skills for each auditor.
To do this, you must previously have defined:
• skill types
• skills list
• skill levels
Creating skill types
To create a skill type:
1. Select the Administration desktop.
2. Click the Skill Management navigation pane then Skill Types.
3. In the edit area, click New.
The new skill type appears in the list.
4. To modify its name, click the skill type, and holding the mouse button down, enter the name for example "Languages".
Creating skill levels
You must now create skill levels to be associated with each skill type.
To create a skill level on a skill type:
1. Select the Administration desktop.
2. Click the Skill Management navigation pane then Skill Types.
The list of skill types appears in the navigation window.
3. Select the skill type concerned, for example "Languages", and click Properties.
4. In the Skill Levels section, click New.
The dialog box for creating a skill level appears.
5. Enter a Name, for example "Beginner".
6. Click OK.
To define the internal value of skill level:
In Skill Level Internal Value, enter a figure corresponding to the skill level, for example "1" for "Beginner" (while "4" could correspond with "Experienced" in our example).
This figure gives a graphic view of the extent of user skills in the audit assignment page. Creating skills
To create a skill:
1. Click Administration > Skill Management > All Skills.
2. Click New.
The new skill is added to the list of skills.
In properties of the skill you can modify its name and indicate the Skill Type to which it is attached, for example "Languages".
Defining skills for each user
To define the skills of a user:
1. Click Administration > Skill Management > Manage User Skills.
2. Select a user and click the Properties button.
3. In the properties page, click Skills.
In the page that appears, you can specify user skills as a function of previously defined skill types and skill levels.
Example of skills
Viewing skills
To view the skills and skill levels available within the team:
Click Administration > Skill Management >View Users and Skills.A list appears. You can sort the list by skill, skill level and user by clicking the header of the corresponding column.
