12 Dec ISO 9001: 2015 Lead Auditor Certification Course Details – Gamma NDT Academy, Kerala

ISO 9001 is a lead auditor certification course, also known as Quality Management System (QMS) certification. 

QMS is to ensure that organizations meets the requirements it needs to fulfill to deliver quality services to its stakeholders. The stakeholders can include customers, employees, regulatory bodies etc. QMS helps organizations to reduce loss by ensuring a standard working procedure that improves profitability. A major task in QMS is to understand the requirements of each stakeholder. 

Few Details About ISO 9001 Certification

ISO 9001 is a quality control standard that comes under the ISO 9000 family of standards. There are several other documents that come under the ISO 9000 family, but ISO 9001 is the only documentation standard in this family that requires certification. 

Normally, an organization will seek the ISO 9001 certification to improve the performance of a particular facility or department. The current version of ISO 9001 was published in September of 2015 and is called ISO 9001:2015 certification.

Here are a few facts about the ISO 9001 certification.

• ISO 9001 can be implemented in small businesses to large enterprises regardless of the size of the organization. ISO 9001 can be implemented in an organization with the size of 1 person or a million people.
• ISO 9001:2015 can be implemented in both service and the manufacturing industry. Restaurants, Manufacturing units, government entities etc, all can implement ISO 9001.
• ISO 9001 is a process-based standard used to increase the quality of processes that lead to a product or service. It is not an ISO standard to define product quality.
• Only, organizations and companies could be certified by ISO 9001. It is not a personal certification provided for a person. However, Individuals can become an ISO 9001 Certified LEad Auditor after completing a 5 day ISO 9001:2015 certification course. Gamma NDT Academy provides ISO 9001 Lead auditor training courses in Kerala, India to prepare candidates for the Lead Auditor certification exam. Candidates who successfully complete the 5 days training course and get lead auditor certification will be given expert career guidance and 100% entry-level placements.

ISO 9001:2015 Course Content

 ISO 9001 guidelines provide organizations a process-oriented approach to review and document the responsibilities, structures, and procedures that are necessary to ensure effective quality management in an organization. ISO 9001 documentation is based on the plan-do-check-act methodology. Below is the core topics that come under ISO 9001 course syllabus. 

• Requirements of a quality management system.
• Key Responsibilities of Management
• Guidelines for the management of organizational resources, including human resources and work environment.
• Product realization, that includes the procedures involved from design to delivery.
• Conducting Internal audit and taking corrective and preventive actions for the measurement, analysis, and improvement of QMS.

Some changes were introduced in ISO 9001 in 2015 to ensure that the QMS system is capable to adapt to the changing organizational environments. Prior to 2015, ISO 9001:2008 was the standard followed globally.

Some Key changes introduced in the ISO 9001:2015 are the following. 

– Introduction of new terminologies

– Some of the information was restructured.

– Emphasis on risk-based thinking.

– Improved applicability for services

– Increased leadership requirements

Previous versions of ISO 9001

ISO 9001 standard was first published in 1987 and underwent a series of revisions in 1994, 2000, 2008 and finally in 2015.