Executive Summary

Concrete Plant Audit Scheme

Your Stamp of excellence

The Scheme provides an independent audit of a ready-mix concrete plant's own quality system.

Audits are carried out by the Plant Audit Committee of five or more registered engineers.  Members include representatives from the New Zealand Concrete Society and IPENZ.

The committee is resourced to enable it to conduct reviews to a high and consistent standard throughout New Zealand.

Its operations are carried out under a quality assurance programme certified to ISO 9001 and audited by Bureau Veritas Quality International.

Criteria for Plant AUDIT

What the Scheme requires

Compliance with NZS 3104:2003 'Concrete Production' and the relevant parts of related documents.

An appropriately qualified employee who carries out concrete testing at each plant.

A plant engineer who is either a chartered professional engineer or a registered engineering associate.

Properly maintained records, with the following original records retained on-site to provide an audit trail confirming the test records analysed are correct and complete:

	the original day sheet compilied by the batcher showing each load sampled.
	the original technician's record of tests carried out on samples referenced to the batch record.
	the original summary of results fowarded to the plant engineer, referenced to the above test and batch reports.
	An annual report from the plant engineer to the Committee ( and at other times should they require it) on the performance of the plant, and quarterly reports on the frequency of sampling and testing of concrete.
	On-site audits of plant performance by an Auditing Engineer appointed by the committee, without prior notice.