Description

This course will provide you with guidance and practical experience to plan, exec, report on and follow-up a combined internal audit, when monitoring the effectiveness and conformity of a Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001).
Course Description: A combined management system (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001) allows you to monitor quality, environmental, occupational health and safety across all operations. Critical to this is the way you monitor the system’s performance.
This course has been designed to furnish you with the knowledge and skill to be able to conduct a combined internal audit, as a member of a team of auditors who may specialize in other management system disciplines.
An internal audit is an essential element to an effective management system, and by attending this course, you’ll benefit by learning and developing the skills to help improve your organization’s performance by assessing the management system in detail.

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How will I benefit?

Taking a combined internal audit approach can present the opportunity for all of the management system discipline audits to be conducted in synchronicity and within a similar time frame in order to create less disturbance to the organizations being audited. It therefore causes less disruption to the business at less cost with a faster turnaround for understanding how the organization is functioning and performing.
This course will help you:

Prepare, conduct and follow-up on audit activities
Identify and apply the benefits and requirements for an ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 combined internal audit
Gain the skills to assess an organization’s capability to manage its QMS, EMS and OH&S management systems
Write factual audit reports and assess corrective actions

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Minimum Entry Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this Course, however, in order to fully benefit from the training, it is recommended that the participants are either new entrants to the shipping industry or professional staff in shipping companies, ship brokers, port agencies, insurance inspectors, banks and similar service organisations can gain a valuable understanding of their customers roles and responsibilities.
The comprehensive documentation that accompanies the course has been designed as a useful guide for future reference.

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Duration

Each module is expected to involve 6 hours of learning time each week, making a total of 52 hours per 2 months period and the associated tests might be completed in less than 2 hours.
The training sections don’t have to be completed in one session, you may return to it as often as you like, the system will bookmark your last page so you are returned directly to where you exited the program.

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Timeframe

This course will remain open for 9 months for completion or revision starting from the date of course uploading on the student portal.
One or more extensions of study totaling not more than 6 months may be requested by a student and authorised by the Course Director. The request should be made at least one day prior to the end of the period of study.
Further extensions are used where exceptional circumstances necessitate an extension of the normal period of study in order to complete the final test. An agreed extension may involve the payment of small additional fees.

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Teaching Methods

In line with the International Maritime Training general approach and the best international standards, the course is designed with the aim of providing excellent training with an emphasis on its concrete application in the job, professional and company principal related activities.
The training include a course framework (detailing the scope, objective, entry standards, and other information about the course), a course outline (timetable), a detailed teaching syllabus (including the learning objectives that should have been achieved when the course has been completed by students), guidance notes and summary of how the students will be evaluated.
The course involves mainly independent study with the assistance of the educational team; study time, in general, is to be spent on activities such as studying the lecture course material and textbooks and preparing your coursework in order to be ready to take the final test.
Your progress in the subjects taught will be tested and consolidated through exercises related to actual Flag State inspector cases.

Modes of attendance

This course can be attended only:
Online, via a cutting-edge web platform.