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Lead Auditor Training - the exam-based route to auditing others

Five days inside the auditor’s side of the table: how an audit is planned, evidenced, led and defended. For the people who will sign audit reports other organisations depend on - and for senior managers who want their supplier audits to mean something.

5Days · 40 hours
WrittenWritten exam on the final day
23Standards offered
MonthlyOpen online batches
Exemplar Global

Exemplar Global recognisedtraining provider

This is the right course if…

  • ✓You want to audit for a certification body, or move into consultancy where a lead auditor credential is the entry ticket.
  • ✓Your organisation runs supplier or second-party audits and needs them led to a defensible method.
  • ✓You manage certified sites and want to face external audits knowing exactly how the other side works.
  • ✓A customer or scheme requires your audit programme to be led by trained lead auditors.

Lead Auditor Training Calendar

Every scheduled Lead Auditor session, from the SIS training calendar. Pick one and register above, or ask for a date that suits you.

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What the Lead Auditor Course Covers

The same spine on every standard - the examples, checklists and exam are written against the standard you choose at booking.

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The requirements of your chosen standard, clause by clause, read the way an auditor reads them
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Audit planning, sampling and objective evidence to the ISO 19011 method
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Leading an audit team through stage 1 and stage 2, from opening to closing meeting
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Writing and grading nonconformities that stand up to review
Who attends: Professionals who will audit other organisations - working and aspiring certification-body auditors, consultants, and senior managers who lead supplier or second-party audits.
Written examination on the final day. Successful delegates receive the standard-specific Lead Auditor certificate.

What Lead Auditor Training Changes

More than a certificate — a testimony that you have raised the bar and built customer confidence.

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A portable, examined credential

Lead auditor competence is what certification bodies, consultancies and audit programmes ask for by name. The exam on day five is what separates it from attendance training.

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Supplier audits you can defend

Findings written against objective evidence and graded to a method survive supplier pushback - and the procurement decisions built on them survive scrutiny.

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No more audit surprises

Once you have planned and led audits yourself, your own external audits stop being unpredictable. You know what the auditor is sampling for, and why.

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