Diploma of Quality Auditing Course BSB51607
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The Diploma of Quality Auditing BSB51607 is a nationally recognised qualification essential for quality management specialists.

This qualification gives all participants the required skills and knowledge to
- instigate and organise an audit with a client,
- arrange for leading an audit by reviewing;
- create specific components of the audit plan,
- discuss the quality process with the relevant stakeholders,
- delegate parts of the work to other team members,
- leading the audit team in undertaking an audit,
- provide feedback to the audit team members on their performance,
- report on the outcomes of the quality audit and take appropriate follow up action.
To learn why you should do this course
In addition, this qualification also ensures that you are competent to manage risks within the management system. To achieve the Diploma of Quality Auditing BSB51607 qualification students shall need to complete all three modules (listed below).
You will also have to undertake an assessment for each of the modules, during or after the course. Our modular approach is comprised of “nationally recognised units of competency” that are structured as follows:
Module 1 Quality Management Systems (4 Days)
Module 2 Risk Management (2 Days)
Module 3 Leadership (2 Days)
How our three modules interrelate:
Quality Management Systems Module
Our Quality Management Module help you to gain a practical understanding of the responsibilities of an auditor, and the techniques and methodologies required to effectively audit a management system. (ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems)
Statement of Attainment:
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BSBAUD501B Initiate a quality audit BSBAUD503B Lead a quality audit BSBAUD504B Report on a quality audit BSBAUD402B Participate in a quality audit |
Risk Management Module 2
The focus of the course is to facilitate your learning with regard to integrating risk & compliance management systems across an organization. The course is designed to build on your basic risk process knowledge and to assist you in establishing a framework for managing risk. (designed to AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk management)
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BSBRSK501A Manage risk BSBRSK401A: Identify risk and apply risk management processes |
Leadership Module 3
Examine the attributes of effective leadership in the areas of managing self and fostering successful working relationships. Reflect on your own personal practice and build strategies for increasing team effectiveness, and managing people and performance.
In addition this module describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to lead and manage continuous improvement systems and processes. Particular emphasis is on the development of systems and the analysis of information to monitor and adjust performance strategies, and to manage opportunities for further improvements.
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BSBMGT502B: Manage people performance BSBWOR502A: Ensure team effectiveness |
The Diploma of Quality Auditing consists of 8 units of competency, however by applying for RPL this can be reduced. Ordinarily we expect that each unit of competence can be completed in approximately 60 hours. Our distance education program is self paced and you can enrol anytime. There is no minimum time to complete the qualification, however as a guide the qualification should be completed within 12 months and take approximately 440 nominal hours to complete. (total number of units = 8 for a total of 440 nominal hours). Pre-requisite is the
Who has this course been developed for?
If you are or seeking to become:
- Quality auditor,
- Quality assurance manager or facilitator,
- Quality and improvement consultant
- Service quality system support analyst
- Project administrators, project managers, and business analysts or
- currently working in the industry and wish to formalise your skills and knowledge; or
- seeking employment or advance their employment status within the quality assurance industry; or
- outside or new to the industry.
IBI’s combined training, quality auditing and consulting experience maximises our effectiveness to our students/trainees and employers due to:
- Benefits from undertaking our training:
- Training is work based and self paced
- Increases productivity
- Increases skills, knowledge and expertise
- Provides you with the ability to work at a higher level
- Provides you with an understanding of what needs to be done and how to do it
- Continues your life long learning journey
Entry Requirements
OPEN Entry – No Pre-requisites required, however for Module 4 Quality Education Management Systems requires prior completion of Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAA40104) & Modules 1, 2 & 3 of this Diploma. This qualification meets the requirements of the Business Services Training Package (BSB07v1).
Why you should do this course
The recent Global Financial Crisis and events in Greece highlight the importance of attaining quality management knowledge and skills.
Our Diploma of Quality Management course covers a range of ever increasing industry demanded skills in quality management that include:
- The key principles of auditing
- How to ensure that quality audits add value to the organisation
- The role and responsibilities of a quality auditor
- How to set appropriate quality audit objectives, scopes and criteria
- Why it’s important to plan a quality audit
- What should happen at an opening meeting
- How to gather effective audit evidence
- The best way to communicate with the auditee client
- Why a closing meeting is vital
- How to write up the quality audit report:
- What is continuous improvement
- How to ensure your quality management system identifies and locks in improvements
- The distinction between corrective and preventive action
- The amount of documentation that is required by ISO 9001
- What a quality auditor should look for
- What an auditor needs to know about quality and the audit programme
- Terminology and concepts of ISO 9001
- How to apply quality management principles in the context of ISO 9001
- Relating the quality management system (QMS) to the organisational products, including services and operational processes
- Documentation required by ISO 9001
- Understand the issues arising from implementing a QMS



