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Performance Audit

What is Performance Audit?

An assessment of whether an organization's programs, activities, or operations are achieving their intended objectives efficiently and effectively.

Audit and Assurance

What the standards actually require on performance audit

Requirements naming performance audit across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

Article 7 requires the operator to draw up a written document setting out its Major-Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP). The MAPP must be designed to ensure a high level of protection of human health + the environment, must be proportionate to the major-accident...

SEV-Art.7 · Major-Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP) (Seveso III Article 7)

Section 2.7 Management of Outsourced Activities + Section 2.8 Change in Product Ownership address external party arrangements which retain PQS responsibility with the marketing authorisation holder (MAH).

ICH-Q10-Section2-Outsourced-Ownership-Vendor-Supplier-CMO-CRO · ICH Q10 Section 2 - Outsourced Activities + Management of Materials + Change of Ownership + CMO + CRO + Supplier Management

Conduct management review with inputs covering performance, audits, exercises, and improvement opportunities.

ISO22313-9.3 · Guidance on management review

Questions people ask about performance audit

What is Performance Audit?
An assessment of whether an organization's programs, activities, or operations are achieving their intended objectives efficiently and effectively.
Why is Performance Audit important for compliance?
Performance Audit is a key concept in Audit and Assurance. Understanding performance audit helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Performance Audit?
Performance Audit appears in the requirement text of EU Seveso III Directive (Directive 2012/18/EU), ICH Q10 - Pharmaceutical Quality System, ISO 22313:2020 - Guidance on Business Continuity Management Systems. Across these standards we have identified 3 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Performance Audit?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how performance audit applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Performance Audit applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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