QMS & IO compliance
QMS & IO complianceGuide
Preparing for an NZTA QMS audit: the complete IO guide
What an NZTA review of your inspection organisation actually examines, how to be ready without the week-before scramble, and how to handle findings so they close for good.
Mike Reece · Updated 2026-06-12
QMS & IO compliance
Corrective actions that actually close: fixing causes, not just instances
Why audit findings recur, what a properly closed corrective action looks like, and how the QMS improvement record turns findings into evidence that your site learns.
Mike Reece · Updated 2026-06-13
QMS & IO compliance
Internal self-assessment between audits: the annual check that keeps you ready
Why NZTA requires inspecting organisations to self-assess at least yearly, what the performance assessment checksheets cover, and how to make the internal review find problems before a reviewer does.
Mike Reece · Updated 2026-06-13
QMS & IO compliance
The QMS registers every inspecting organisation must keep
A plain-language tour of the master records in the NZTA Model QMS — equipment, training, complaints, controlled documents, improvement and more — and what 'keeping' each one actually means.
Mike Reece · Updated 2026-06-13
QMS & IO compliance
Record retention requirements for inspecting organisations
How long WOF and CoF inspection records must be kept, the indefinite-retention exceptions, what compliant electronic storage looks like, and why 'we still have it somewhere' isn't retention.
Mike Reece · Updated 2026-06-13
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