RABQSA has announced the suspension of its Certification Training Plan, requiring auditors to transition to competency-based certification schemes for quality management systems (QMS), environmental management systems (EMS), food safety, and occupational health and safety (OH&S) audits. The transition would have required all auditors certified for QMS, EMS, food safety and OH&S to prove their knowledge of the subject matter, instead of illustrating their credentials through their qualifications. This requires a certificate of attainment from an RABQSA-certified training provider, a certificate of successful completion of RABQSA’s online “gap” examination, the successful completion of the RABQSA Management System Auditor Skill Examination and the successful completion of the RABQSA Personal Attribute Assessment System Master exam. The goal of the transition was to ensure that RABQSA-certified auditors are current in their knowledge of the management systems they examine.

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