ISO Auditor Training - What online training is actually value added?

[Colin]

I find it a source of some amusement that training people to conduct audits is looked upon as 'enduring the training' and that it is done to 'get a piece of paper'.

If you recruited a new person into your business you would most likely train them to do the job you required of them. Why then is it OK to just let people go out and audit without training them?

I am the first to agree that being trained and having a piece of paper does not automatically mean that you have a good auditor but they stand a better chance of being a good auditor than one who doesn't have the training.

Perhaps more careful selection of the trainer/training organisation would be a good place to start.

 

[kgott]

Hello all!

I'm considering online training to get the piece of paper as some business' consider that as or more important than experience.

kgg

After having been in safety for 20 years and seen training become a monster, I have concluded that training can be and is sometimes used as a panacea, just like putting up safety signs in the workplace to control a hazard instead of supervisors enforcing the controls to the extent that staff accept that the required control is actually required.

I have spoken to many people in the resource and engineering industry, contractors, who have attended up to 13 inductions a year where they hear the same stuff over and over again. The duty of care of the employer and the employee has been flogged to death and I don't know why. It's simply a statement in the OH&S laws.

Its just sad to see so many dogmas, becoming set in concrete and become almost impossible to change.

 

[kgott]

Re: ISO auditor training

T

If you can demonstrate ....... and provides whatever the defined results are to be....

Could you please expand on this Randy for the sake of my education.

 

[Freddyfred]

The online training is great if you have background in that subject matter. But nothing really can replace a good classroom environment for those who really want to get something out of the class.