QMSAI ISO 45001 Internal Auditor course will afford you both technical knowledge and practical skills essential to assess and report on the conformance and effective implementation of an Occupational Health and Safety Management system geared towards improving workplace safety, preventing workplace accidents and associated ill health.

What about QMSAI Internal Auditor Course?

QMSAI OHSMS Internal Auditor certification is a globally-recognized ISO 45001:2018 Internal auditor certification. It is certified by the Quality and Management system Auditors Institute (QMSAI) and meets the training requirements for QMSAI Occupational Health and Safety Management System Auditor certification.

A “QMSAI ISO 45001 internal Auditor” certificate gives credence to your professional capabilities, and demonstrates that you have the knowledge and skills to perform the internal audit of your organization’s OHSMS based on ISO 45001 standard.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Know the guidelines of management system auditing according to ISO 19011:2018
• The application of these guidelines to auditing ISO 45001
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of an internal auditor
• Recognize audit principles, practices, and the various types of audits
• Plan and execute an internal audit, gather audit evidence through observation, interview and sampling of documents and records
• Write factual audit reports and suggest corrective actions
• Meet training requirements for QMSAI certification

Who Should Attend?

• Safety professionals
• OH&S Engineers
• OH&S managers and Consultants
• Safety officers
• OH&S internal auditors
• Those who want to become registered OH&S Internal auditors
• Personnel in charge of legal requirements updating
• Those with responsibility for OH&S implementation

Pre-course Requirements

You are expected to have the following prior knowledge before starting this course:

• Knowledge of the plan, do, check, act cycle (PDCA)
• Understand the structure and content of ISO 45001:2018 standard
• Fully grasp the ISO 45001 standard. (Note that students without prior knowledge may not be successful in this course.)
• Have insights into the core elements of a management system, and the interrelationship between top management responsibility, policy, objectives, planning, implementation, measurement, management review and continual improvement
• Understand the concepts of managing occupational health and safety through hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control, compliance with legal requirements, etc.
• Know the relationship between occupational health and safety management, 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
• Possess knowledge of the requirements of ISO 45001, and the commonly used occupational health and safety management terms and definitions, as given in ISO 45001
• Knowledge of OH&S legislations and legal requirements (both local and international)
• Understand Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems risk-based process approach.

Course Duration

This course takes five days to complete, plus exams.

Course Time

9:00am to 5:00pm daily (tea break starts at 11:00am and runs till 11:30am, while lunch starts at 1:00pm).

Course Fee

₦150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand naira). You can pay in 2 installments.

Examination and Evaluation Criteria

Participants shall be evaluated through:

• Continuous Assessments – Participants will be evaluated every day of the training, via group discussion, workshops, role play, punctuality, take-home exercise, class room participation, attendance, contribution in class, etc. The qualifying mark is 60%
• Examination – Participants will write a 2-hour final examination on the last day of training. The qualifying marks is 70%

Why choose us to meet your Training Needs?

• We have highly competent trained instructors, with a lot of experience as quality and management system trainers / consultants
• We have developed special training courses materials, available in soft and hard copies, as well as videos and audios at affordable prices, with lots of on the job practical activities and samples.
• Our training is interactive, engaging, detailed and very interesting. We employ variety of teaching techniques which includes videos.
• We guarantee you success on all national and international courses
• We offer online courses for those who are busy and don’t have the time for a formal classroom lecture
• During our training you are exposed to practical, on-the-job experience. For some, we take you for onsite practical experience as an “auditor in training”.
• We operate in an environment conducive to learning—all our training rooms are air conditioned and have good lighting system.
• We provide additional learning support via zoom, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and on our blog:

Course Outline

Unit 1 – Introduction to ISO 45001:2018 Environmental Management system

• What is ISO and ISO 45001?
• The High Level structure

• ISO 14001 structure
• Basic Terminology of Environmental Management System (OHSMS)

• ISO 45001 Family of Standards and Versions
• Fundamentals of ISO 9001:2015
• Implementing ISO 45001 as a project
• Benefits of Implementing an effective OHSMS

Unit 2 – Introduction to Auditing

• What is Auditing
• Purpose and Objectives of the Internal Audit
• Benefits of Effective Internal Auditing
• Types of Audits
• Layout Standards that Follow the PDCA
• Types of Internal Audits
• Different Phases of an Audit

Unit 3 – Managing an Audit Programme

• ISO 19011:2018

• Determining the Scope of the Audit
• Defining the Audit Criteria
• Selecting Audit Team Members

Unit 4 – Audit Preparation

• Phases of Audit preparation

• EMS audit procedure
• Effective Audit Preparation Process
• Applying audit methods

Unit 5 – Audit Roles and Responsibilities

• Role and Responsibilities of EMS Manager/Audit Coordinator
• Role and Responsibilities of Auditee’s Management
• Role and Responsibilities of Auditor
• Role and Responsibilities of Auditee
• Role and Responsibilities of Guide

Unit 6 – Auditor Competence

• Principles of auditing
• Internal Auditor’s Personal Attributes
• Key Success Factor: Auditor Attitude
• Relations between Auditors and Auditees

Unit 7 – Performing the Audit

• Opening Meeting
• Collecting and Verifying information
• Selecting Sources of Information
• Handling Difficult Auditees
• Generating Audit Findings
• Rule of Thumb for Deciding Type of Audit Finding
• Corrective Action

Unit 8 – Audit Conclusion

• Content of audit conclusions
• Audit Report
• Closing Meeting
• Conducting Audit Follow-up
• Summary of Effective Internal Auditing

Unit 9 – Auditing OHSMS requirements

• OHSMS policy
• OH&S Objective
• OH&S hazards
• Assessment of OH&S risks and other risks to the OHSMS

• Assessment of OH&S opportunities and other opportunities for the OHSMS
• legal and other requirements
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Management review

Unit 10– Specimen Exam Questions