HSE's publication 'Successful Health and Safety Management' (HSG65) describes key elements of successful health and safety management systems. A three level model is explained and one of the elements, auditing, is explored in detail by the regulator. The term auditing in the health and safety context is defined and the use of proprietary and in-house systems compared. The process of auditing is...

Computer security auditing constitutes an important part of any organization's security procedures. Because of the many inadequacies of currently used manual methods, thorough and timely auditing is often diicult to attain. Recent literature suggests that expert systems techniques can ooer signiicant beneets when applied to security procedures such as risk analysis , security auditing and intru...

Database Auditing is one of the major issues in information security. Lack of data auditing leads the business applications to the lost trail of business processes. To cope with auditing, historical data or temporal database is needed in order to track operations and actors of the operation with the time. Valid and transaction times are two major timestamps in temporal database. In this paper, ...

Software organizations that develop their software products using agile software processes, such as Extreme Programming (XP), face a number of challenges in their effort to demonstrate that their process activities conform to ISO 9001 requirements, including product measurement requirements. This paper proposes an auditing model for ISO 9001 measurements requirements that is applicable in agile...

Service Level Agreements (SLA) are needed to allow business interactions to rely onInternet services. Service Level Objectives (SLO) specify the committed performance levelof a service. Thus, SLA compliance auditing aims at verifying these commitments. SinceSLOs for various application services and end-to-end performance definitions vary largely,automated auditing of SLA com...

SNOMED is one of the leading health care terminologies being used worldwide. As such, quality assurance is an important part of its maintenance cycle. Methodologies for auditing SNOMED based on structural aspects of its organization are presented. In particular, automated techniques for partitioning SNOMED into smaller groups of concepts based primarily on relationships patterns are defined. Tw...

This paper provides an overview of the framework and tools developed at the Agile Manufacturing and Enterprise Centre (AMEC) at the University of Liverpool to assist Merseyside SME’s in embracing agility concepts. The framework is based on four main pillars; auditing of company, auditing of the operating environment, benchmarking and learning from best practice. This paper describes the overall...

The present study identified the structural requirements for auditing educational and research processes in universities. The problem posed in this research is the lack of specific and appropriate structural dimensions for educational and research auditing. The study is descriptive and used the exploratory method. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Data analysis revealed that formalizati...