SOP Audit Checklist: 15 Questions to Test Your Library

Auditing an SOP library isn't glamorous work, but it's the single highest-leverage thing an ops leader can do — one afternoon per quarter surfaces the ownerless SOPs, stale dates, missing escalation paths, orphan links, and untested new-hire flows that would otherwise fail you at exactly the wrong moment. Use the 15 questions below quarterly; run the shortened version monthly for high-risk SOPs (billing, compliance, security). The interactive version lives at [/checklists/sop-audit](/checklists/sop-audit). For tools with real audit trails, see [SweetProcess](/reviews/sweetprocess) and [Document360](/reviews/document360).