One auditor, one sample, 30 files in two weeks.
The list of requirements comes from internal audit. For each person in the sample, someone opens the personnel file, the training management system and the folder holding the reliability check one by one, finds the evidence, copies it and places it in the audit folder. If anything is missing, an email goes to the line manager and the folder stays open until the answer comes back.
30files in the sampleThat is how many personnel files an auditor pulls for one round.
6types of evidence per fileExpertise, training, reliability, contract, secondary employment, briefing.
3separate repositoriesThe evidence sits in the personnel file, in the training management system and in an email folder.
8queries to line managersFor every gap an email goes out, and the folder waits for a reply.
Of 180 pieces of evidence, the HR officer is left with only the 16 that are genuinely missing; the rest are filed in order in the folder: 40% less documentation effort.
The 40% reduction in documentation effort is this agent's headline figure. The sample of 30 files and the eight queries to line managers trace a typical audit round; they are not measured values.