ISO 9000 Lead Auditor

(3.5 Days)
RAB-QSA Certified and IRCA Recognized

An intensive course including training in lead auditor techniques, methodology, practices, and skills. It was designed and developed by a team who created and managed an accredited registrar. Team members who created this course are lead auditors with experience managing lead auditors, and they have a complete knowledge of the essential skills needed by lead auditors. RAB-QSA has established the Training Provider Examination Certification Scheme (TPECS), and this course is structured in accordance with TPECS.

The course contains a solid body of quality management systems (QMS) auditing knowledge, accumulated from seven years of audits by the authors. Highlights of the course are:

• "Hands-on" training exercises
• Study of Quality Management Systems, as required by ISO 9001
• ISO 9001 requirements and intent
• QMS audit process
• Evaluating system effectiveness
• Evaluation of Conformance
• Audit reporting
• Simulated audit or live audit (on-site if available)

Who Should Attend:

ISO 9000 Auditors, ISO 9000 Implementers, Quality Managers, Management Representatives, Inspectors and Quality Control Managers would gain valuable information and credentials.

Expected Outcome:

• An understanding of the ISO 9001 Standardís requirements and intent
• A certificate of accomplishment (conditional on passing examination)
• An understanding of the lead auditorís responsibilities
• How to create and execute an audit plan
• An understanding of questioning techniques and communications
• How to make an auditee feel at ease
• How to determine the effectiveness of a QMS
• How to document non-conformances

THERE IS NO EXAM; participants are evaluated based on their achievement. Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate recognized by the RAB and IRCA. This course is owned and presented by Pillar Management Associates with course arrangements by AETS and OSUIT.

Pillar Management Associates offers this open enrollment course to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or physical handicap.

"ASQ Certification: ASQ Certified Quality Engineers, Reliability Engineers, and Quality Auditors may earn re-certification credit(s) for attending this program, providing it is covered under one area of the body of knowledge in which you are seeking re-certification or is job enhancement." AETS will provide a certificate for 3.5 re-certification units.

Contact: Ed Hornback, 918-630-7037, edhornback@att.net, AETS-PMLA 2009