The 5-day training will teach auditors the practical and theoretical skills to lead on a successful audit and improve health and safety performance.

Select a study option:

At a training centre
In your workplace

• Learn the skills required to perform first, second and third-party audits of occupational health and safety management systems against ISO 45001
• Improve the audit competency of your organisation.

• Health and safety professionals that wish to become a lead auditor
• Anyone that may be responsible for the internal or external auditing.
• Current auditors who wish to upskill themselves.

Delegates are expected to have the following prior knowledge: 

Management systems

The Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle

The core elements of a management system and the interrelationship between top management responsibility, policy, objectives, planning, implementation, measurement, review and continual improvement.

a) Occupational health and safety management 

The concepts of managing occupational health and safety through hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control and compliance with legal requirements and other requirements.

The relationship between occupational health and safety management and the provision of safe and healthy workplaces, the prevention of work-related injury and ill health, and the proactive improvement of health and safety performance.

Common examples of relevant national and local OH&S legislation and requirements ISO 45001

b) Knowledge of the requirements of ISO 45001 and the commonly used occupational health and safety management terms and definitions, as given in ISO 45001, which may be gained by completing our ISO 45001 Requirements training course, or the equivalent.

To provide delegates with the knowledge and skills required to perform first, second and third-party audits of occupational health and safety management systems against ISO 45001, in accordance with ISO 19011 and ISO/IEC 17021, as applicable.

On completion, successful delegates will have the knowledge and skills to:

Knowledge

• Explain the purpose of an occupational health and safety management system, of occupational health and safety management system standards, of management system audit, of third-party certification, and the business benefits of improved performance of the occupational health and safety 
  management system
• Explain the role of an auditor to plan, conduct, report and follow up an occupational health and safety management system audit in accordance with ISO 19011 and ISO/IEC 17021, as appropriate.

Skills

• Plan, conduct, report and follow-up an audit of an occupational health and safety management system to establish conformity (or otherwise) with ISO 
  45001, and in accordance with ISO 19011 and ISO/IEC 17021 where appropriate.
• Upon completion of the course the participant will receive a certificate of attendance.

We recognise that everyone is different, which is why we offer a choice of study routes.

You can attend a course at one of our training centres, study for the qualification by distance learning or we can deliver the course in your workplace.