TRAINING COURSE CERTIFICATION

GENERIC TRAINING COURSE CERTIFICATION

TRAINING PROVIDER AND EXAMINER CERTIFICATION SCHEME

Our Personnel Certification Offerings
RABQSA offers certification to individuals seeking recognition of their skills and qualifications. Personnel certification is often a pre-requisite to employment for the auditing and inspection industries and provides assurance to employers and customers that you have the necessary knowledge, skills, attributes and experience and can provide value to their organization.

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)
• Responsible Care Management System (USA, American Chemistry Council)
• Airport Security (Sydney Airport Corporation Limited)
• Frozen Food Inspectors (Japan Frozen Food Inspection Corporation)

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

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

• Certificate of Attainment of competencies specific to the scheme
• Personal attributes
• Skills-based competencies specific to the scheme; plus
• Additional qualification-based options of assessment

A qualification-based approach, involving:

• Recognition of education/qualifications
• Completion of a RABQSA certified training course
• 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. More information on competency vs. qualification-based personnel certification can be found under Certify Me.

Our Training Certification Offerings
RABQSA provides certification for training providers courses and examinations. This certification gives evidence to industry that a course is being delivered and examined in a reliable and consistent manner by trainers and examiners that are deemed competent. Training certification complements, and is often integral, to personnel 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.

TCC can be used to certify streams of training courses that offer similar knowledge using different delivery methods.