ISO 9001 Lead Auditor



RABQSA

RABQSA-Certified ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Training

Learn the full range of auditing skills that will help you become a strong advocate in your company’s effort to obtain maximum value from your commitment to ISO 9001:2008.  Participants will acquire the necessary skills to become a leader in preparing and conducting audits through interactive methods and avoiding lecture based learning.


Length: 5 days         CEUs:  3.6

Prerequisites:  A series of questions to be answered by the student and turned in prior to or at the beginning of the course to demonstrate understanding of the ISO 9001:2008 Standard

Learning Objectives

  • Perform audits based on ISO 19011:2002 Standard
  • Demonstrate an understanding ISO 9001:2008
  • Apply RABQSA Auditor Certification Handbook
  • Link to Quality Management Principles
  • Form an audit team
  • Conduct an audit meeting
  • Determine needed documentation and organize to the standard
  • Classify, record and resolve nonconformities
  • Implement preventative measures to avoid future nonconformities

Plexus Learning Model

Learning is maximized through participation. That is why Plexus training avoids lecture-based teaching and focuses on group activities, case studies and hands-on applications. Learn by doing.

Instructors

Plexus Master Trainers. Plexus Master Trainers train and evaluate:

  • ISO 9001:2008, ISO/TS 16949:2009, AS9100, ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems, FSSC 22000:2005 Food Safety, ISO 9001:2008 for Healthcare and ISO 13485:2003 for Medical Devices.
  • Plexus trains 3rd party auditors and wrote the materials used to certify all of them

Agenda

Day 1

  • Introduction
  • Automotive Process Approach
  • Process Approach Application

Day 2

  • Understanding the ISO/TS 16949:2009 Sector-specific Supplementations/Additions
  • Linkages to Automotive Core Tools and Customer Requirements

Day 3

  • Core Tools Integration
  • Linkages to Quality Management Principles
  • Review Rules 3rd Edition
  • Review RABQSA Auditor Certification Handbook
  • Auditing Skills

Day 4

  • Auditing Skills
  • Audit Applications

Day 5

  • Audit Applications
  • Written Examination

Requirements for Successful Completion

There are two elements involved in the evaluation and examination for successful completion of participants of this course:

  1. The continual evaluation of the student’s attitudes, auditing capability, performance as team members during role-playing, and communication skills (this is done independently by all instructors involved with the class).
  2. A written examination, which covers the content of ISO/TS 16949:2009 and the application of audit principles and practices to ISO 19011. 75% of the examination grade is based on questions that require essay responses that test comprehension of the audit process and the application of ISO/TS 16949:2009, and the remainder of the examination grade is based on multiple choice, true/false or short answer questions.

Note: The time allotted for taking the examination is two hours. Strict adherence to the time limit is to be maintained. However, the trainer may allow a student whose primary language is not the language in which the course is conducted, or a student with a particular disability that adversely affects the student’s capability to complete the examination in the allotted time, up to 30 additional minutes for taking the written examination.

The only reference materials allowed during the examination are a copy of the ISO 9001:2008 standard, course materials provided by Plexus International and any personal notes made by the student during the course.

Certificates

  • Those who pass will receive a certificate of successful completion, which satisfies the training requirement for individual QMS auditor certification by RABQSA.
  • Those who do not pass will receive a certificate of attendance.

Guidelines Governing the Lead Auditor Training Course

Plexus International’s “RABQSA-Certified ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Training” is focused on the training and development of the auditor candidates.  Advisement, correction, discussion, information transfer and learning are the focus of the training session.  Additionally, trainer evaluations of the auditor candidates’ performance and understanding are directed toward improving the candidates’ performance and understanding.  Trainers are not to make final pass/fail determinations during initial parts of the training, but they are to collect performance data that assist them to make pass/fail determinations with regard to candidates’ performance and understanding.  Final evaluation of the candidates is the result of the written examination and the continual evaluations during the training session.


IRCA“This training course and certificate of attainment is recognized by IRCA as meeting the requirement for IRCA certification to ISO 9000:2008 Series Internal Auditor course (IRCA/2245)”