The current requirements are that every accreditation scheme shall QA at least 2% of its total reports per annum selected at random.

Our focus is not just on meeting the current QA requirements but on exceeding the requirements of the latest new proposals so Sterling will:

• Audit the 1st report for every new member within 30 days of lodgement – if we are not happy with the result we will QA 2 further reports.
• Have at least 1 report for each member audited every 6 months
• Audit 2% of total reports per new member within the first 6 months
• Carry out risk based targeting of reports for further random QA
• Carry out further checks at lodgement to ensure that:

• The assessor has actually been on site
• The assessor lodging the report actually
  collected the data i.e. no data gatherer was used
• Require that a standard set of documents used to collect data and prepare the report be sent as attachments with the lodged report sufficient to allow a QA audit to be undertaken if required.