Inside Quality Insider

  |  06/08/2010

Product News: ISO Standards Training DVD Series

Training series can reduce ISO standards precertification and recertification costs by thousands of dollars.

(QAI LLC: Indianapolis) -- Realizing that companies must lower costs in all areas, national quality training provider QAI LLC is introducing an instructional video series, which provides the most critical ISO standards certification tools to help individual employees support the ISO standards certification process. The purpose of the video series is to help those who are charged with functions such as internal auditing and employee training. The specific video “bundle” includes all the material from these four separate instructional series including:

ISO 9001 Employee Awareness Training. Running30 minutes, this is a “common sense” approach to the ISO quality management system including its history, an overview of the five major sections of ISO 9001 in layman’s terms, what happens in an audit, and what it means to be registered to an ISO standard including getting registered and staying registered.

ISO 9001 the Standard in Detail. This 2.5 hr program provides a quick but thorough understanding of ISO 9001:2008. It teaches how to interpret the standard in a clause-by-clause format. It includes what is required and what is not required, how to recognize the clause in action, and how to know if the implementation is effective. This helps management representatives to interpret the standard from an auditor’s perspective.

Process Auditing. Created with feedback from thousands of classroom process audit training students, this 30-minute self-paced DVD training program is a concise introduction to the critical process auditing function that your internal auditors must perform. It helps auditors learn new ideas and concepts to help them improve such as what makes process auditing different from compliance auditing and how to diagram a process using commonly used tools and why these diagrams help. (Simulated audits have been taped to help support the learning experience.)

Audit Planning. In this 30-minute DVD video training session, you’ll learn commonly used audit terms and how they are defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), as well as what makes an audit plan effective and how to develop an effective audit plan. It helps management understand why an audit plan is important and how an effective audit plan will help you to achieve results that will help. (It also includes role playing video simulations and more training aides.)

“This is a tough time for business, and yet it is critical for them to prove they are competent suppliers and to increase productivity and quality. ISO certification is the best path for many and this video training series is a tremendous money and time saver, and preserves the investment they have already made in external training by bringing the concepts home to be used over and over without paying again and again,” says QAI owner, Craig Deane.

Each training video walks students through critical ISO standards certification needs section-by-section and goes into deep detail of the requirements needed at that stage of the process. Previews are available online as well as any discounts or promotions.

The teaching videos can be used as an instructional coach to help the team through solving the process at each step of the way, teach employees the process, and can be integrated to complement in-house programs. Each DVD program is also available individually; the descriptions are available online for each complete program at www.trainingforquality.com. However, when purchased individually these programs will cost almost $3,000. Purchasing this complete bundle can save nearly 50 percent of this cost with purchases made securely online.

“Using this teaching instrument, the viewer will be exposed to a professionally developed video instruction tool that is backed by the quality that QAI customers have come to expect from our ISO 9001-registered company,” Deane says.

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