Advanced ISO Management Systems Auditing Course
Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety Auditing
This programme is delivered in-house or at our Doha centre. Contact us to confirm scheduling, group sizing and fees for your team.
RegisterThis Demoura Lawson Consulting training course on Advanced ISO Management Systems Auditing will provide attendees with a comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the International ISO management system standards on quality (ISO 9001:2015), environment (ISO 14001:2015), and occupational health and safety (ISO 45001:2018).
Attendees will gain a detailed understanding of how to audit both supplier companies and their own organizations. The emphasis on the results of auditing will help delegates assist their organizations in achieving improved performance in the areas of quality, environment, and health and safety, leading to enhanced profitability.
This training course is designed to engage all course delegates through a substantial number of team learning exercises.
The course highlights understanding the latest versions of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001; audit planning; audit performance with a focus on business risk areas; audit reporting that adds value to delegates' businesses; and organizational improvement techniques.
- Comprehend all clauses and sub-clauses of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001
- Effectively explain the details of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 to colleagues
- Plan, conduct, and report on management system audits
- Act as a driving force in the organization's improvement processes
The training course utilizes the concept of accelerated learning. This approach includes class lectures where delegates are encouraged to engage in discussions and share their experiences, and team exercises designed to test and reinforce delegates' understanding of the topics presented.
- Improved operational performance
- Improved environmental performance
- Improved health and safety performance
- Understanding best management practices in quality, environment, and health and safety
- Sharing best practice knowledge with staff encountered during audits
- Documenting and presenting observations and concerns to management concisely to facilitate improvements
- Advising their own organization on improvements in quality, environment, and health and safety
- Advising supplier organizations on improvements in quality, environment, and health and safety
- Gaining insights into parts of their organization they would not normally interact with, thereby increasing their flexibility to take on responsibilities across a wider range of departments
- Senior managers keen to initiate improvements and increase profitability in operations, as well as enhancements in environmental and health and safety performance
- Operations managers needing to understand enhanced control and departmental improvements
- Younger professionals wishing to gain comprehensive knowledge of all areas of their organization and identify potential improvements, as auditing will expose them to departments and activities they would not normally see
- Quality, environmental, and health and safety managers looking to better manage their specialty staff and departments
- Junior quality, environmental, and health and safety staff needing a deeper understanding of the principles and details of management system standards and their beneficial impact on the organization
- Purchasing managers who need to assess suppliers for consistency and good performance through auditing
- All staff involved in receiving third-party certification auditors
Day 1
- Class discussion on delegates' current knowledge and understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
- Origins and aims of management systems
- Introduction to ISO 9001 and quality systems
- Meaning & content of ISO 9001
- Clauses of ISO 9001
Day 2
- Relating the clauses of ISO 9001 to an organization
- Principles & purposes of environmental management
- Meaning & content of ISO 14001
- Clauses of ISO 14001
- Relating clauses of ISO 14001 to an organization
Day 3
- Principles & purposes of occupational health & safety management
- Differences between OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001
- Introduction to auditing
- Auditing 9001, 14001 and 45001 together
- Typical management system documentation
- Planning the audit & checklist preparation
- Opening meetings
Day 4
- Conducting the audit
- Assessing real audit scenarios
- Common non-conformances
- Identifying and classifying non-conformance
- Writing non-conformance (deficiency) statements
Day 5
- Closing meetings
- Audit reporting, corrective action and follow-up
- Corrective action preparation & feedback
- Preparation to present a closing meeting
- Presentation of closing meeting feedback