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What We Do

RABQSA creates value for you and your customers. We design, develop, and deliver personnel and training certification services relevant to your industry.

Our certification services are designed to be efficient, consistent and relevant.

We create and maintain value to industry, our certified professionals, and training providers by ensuring that our certification remains relevant and also compliant to international standards.

RABQSA International certification delivers the right people, with the right abilities, to achieve the right outcomes.

RABQSA’s principal offices are located in Sydney, Australia, Milwaukee, USA and Athens, Greece with international offices located in Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam.

RABQSA designs, develops, and delivers personnel and training certification into the following streams:

Management systems-based schemes, such as:

  • Quality management systems auditors
  • Environmental management system auditors
  • Occupational health & safety management system auditors
  • Food safety management systems auditors & facilitators
  • Management systems consultants.


Industry-based schemes, such as:

  • National Food Safety Auditor (Australia, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
  • Aged Care Quality Assessors (Australia, The Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd)
  • Responsible Care Management System (USA, American Chemistry Council)
  • Frozen Food Inspectors (Japan Frozen Food Inspection Corporation)

Our Personnel Certification Offerings

All Personnel Certification schemes designed with RABQSA can be based on:

A competency-based approach, involving the measurement and examination of:

  • Knowledge-based competencies specific to the scheme
  • Personal attributes
  • Skills-based competencies specific to the scheme; plus
    Additional qualification-based options of assessment, including:
  • Recognition of educational qualifications
  • Recognition of industry work experience;

or

A qualification-based approach, involving:

  • Recognition of education/qualifications
  • Attendance of a directed training scheme
  • Recognition of industry work experience
  • Recognition of specific scheme work experience (e.g. audit logs, on-site hours, face to face time)
  • Attendance at directed professional development activities.

Any competency-based scheme has the option of being accredited by the Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS–ANZ) to the International Standard ISO/IEC 17024:2003.

Our Training Certification Offerings
Complementing the personnel certification service is the training provider certification. RABQSA offers two forms of training provider and training course certification:

Training Provider and Examiner Certification Scheme (TPECS)

  • TPECS underpins the examination of knowledge-based competencies specific to the competency-based personnel certification schemes.
  • The focus is on the training provider’s ability to examine each candidate against knowledge as defined by the personnel certification scheme.


Training Course Certification (TCC)

  • TCC underpins the delivery of training and fulfillment of training objectives specific to the qualification-based personnel certification schemes.
  • The focus is on course design, development, conduct and achievement of course objectives.