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ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Awareness

A practical, visual introduction to ISO 9001, the world's most widely used quality management system standard. Learn what a quality management system actually is, the seven quality management principles behind it, how the standard is structured around the Plan Do Check Act cycle, what the process approach and risk based thinking mean in real work and how nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement are meant to run. Written for people working in a certified organisation, or one heading that way, with no quality background assumed.
What You Will Learn
- Explain what a quality management system is and why organisations seek ISO 9001 certification
- Describe the seven quality management principles that the standard is built on
- Describe how the standard is structured and how the process approach and Plan Do Check Act cycle work
- Explain what risk based thinking means in a quality management system and how it replaced preventive action
- Recognise how customer feedback, nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement feed the system
Course Content
- ISO 9001 in plain English
- By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Quality means meeting requirements, consistently
- ISO 9001 is the standard for the system that delivers it
- Why organisations get certified
- Which edition this course teaches
- Seven principles sit underneath the requirements
- The seven principles
- Customer focus is the first principle for a reason
- Engagement of people is not a poster
- Evidence based decisions, and the alternative
- Seven clauses carry the requirements
- Underneath the clauses is Plan, Do, Check, Act
- The process approach means seeing the whole chain
- Documented information, sized to the risk
- Context, interested parties and scope
- Risk based thinking replaced a separate preventive action clause
- Risks and opportunities, both
- What the standard asks you to do about them
- Quality objectives make the policy real
- Changes get planned, not absorbed
- Nonconforming output gets controlled before it escapes
- Correction and corrective action are not the same thing
- Handling a nonconformity properly
- Internal audit and management review close the loop
- Certification is separate from the standard
- Now put it together
- A certified business, an ordinary month
- The five things to carry away
Who This Course Is For
Workers, supervisors, managers and contractors in an organisation certified to ISO 9001 or working towards certification and anyone who wants to understand what the standard asks of them.
Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 2 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked 13 September 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- Australian StandardISO 9001:2015, Quality management systems — RequirementsAs at 13/09/2026
- Australian StandardISO 9001:2015/Amd 1:2024, Quality management systems — Requirements — Amendment 1: Climate action changesAs at 13/09/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
has successfully completed
All learning modules and the final assessment
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
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- Six months of access
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