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Audit Failures Analytics

Identify failure patterns and non-compliance issues to drive continuous improvement.

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Track Your Audit Failures and Issues

The Findings Dashboard helps you monitor and analyze audit failures, non-compliance issues, and areas that need attention across your organization. This dashboard is essential for identifying patterns and driving continuous improvement.

Total Failures Overview

At the top left of your dashboard, you'll see your Total Failures metric for the selected time period.

What this shows:

  • Total number of failed audit items or non-compliant findings

  • Percentage change compared to the previous period (like "+124.7% compared to last month")

  • A trend line showing whether failures are increasing or decreasing over time

How to interpret:

  • Increasing failures: May indicate declining performance, new compliance challenges, or more thorough auditing

  • Decreasing failures: Shows improvement in compliance and performance

  • Stable numbers: Consistent performance levels across time periods

Action items:

  • High failure rates: Investigate root causes and implement corrective actions

  • Sudden spikes: Check for new procedures, staff changes, or external factors

  • Positive trends: Recognize improvements and reinforce successful practices

Analyze Top Failures by Checklists

The "Top Failures by Checklists" chart shows which types of audits are generating the most failures, helping you prioritize improvement efforts.

How to read this chart:

  • Each bar represents a different checklist or audit type.

  • The height of the bar shows the total number of failures for that checklist.

  • Different colors within each bar represent individual audit questions that contributed to the failure count.

  • Checklists are usually ordered from highest to lowest failure count.

What this tells you:

  • Tallest bars: Audit areas with the most compliance issues

  • Consistent patterns: Audit types that regularly have problems

  • Color distribution: Different types of failures within each audit category

Action items:

  • Focus improvement efforts on high-failure audit types

  • Analyze successful checklists to replicate best practices

  • Consider if certain checklists need revision or additional training

Monitor Failures Trend Over Time

The "Failures Trend Over Time" chart displays how different types of failures change across weeks or months, helping you spot patterns and measure improvement efforts.

Chart elements:

  • X-axis: Time periods (days, weeks, or months)

  • Y-axis: Number of failures

  • Different colored dots/lines: Various failure types or categories

  • Multiple data points: Allow you to track trends for each failure type

What to look for:

  • Rising trends: Failure types that are becoming more common

  • Declining trends: Areas showing improvement over time

  • Seasonal patterns: Failures that spike at certain times

  • Sudden changes: Dramatic increases or decreases that need investigation

Key insights:

  • Consistent improvement: Fewer or lower-positioned dots over time indicate positive trends

  • Persistent problems: Repeated or rising dot clusters suggest unresolved issues

  • Correlation patterns: Multiple failure types changing together may indicate systemic issues

Detailed Failures Analysis

The "All Failures by Location and Checklist" table provides granular detail about where and what type of failures are occurring.

Table columns:

  • Location Name: Specific sites, stores, or facilities where failures occurred

  • Checklist Name: Type of audit or inspection that had failures

  • Question: Specific audit item or requirement that failed

  • Failures: Number of times this specific item failed

  • % of Total: What percentage this represents of all failures

How to use this data:

  • Identify problem locations: Sites with high failure counts across multiple areas

  • Spot recurring issues: Questions or requirements that fail repeatedly

  • Focus training efforts: Target specific procedures or locations with highest failure rates

  • Track improvement: Monitor whether specific issues decrease over time

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