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Nonconformity and Corrective Action Awareness
When something does not meet a requirement, most organisations fix the instance and move on, which guarantees it happens again. This course covers what a nonconformity is, what the standards require you to do about it, the difference between correcting the thing and removing the cause, how to find a cause worth acting on rather than stopping at human error, how to verify an action actually worked and why the same problem keeps coming back. Applies across the quality, environmental, safety and information security standards.
What You Will Learn
- Explain what a nonconformity is and where the requirement it breaches can come from
- Describe the sequence the standards require when a nonconformity occurs
- Distinguish correction from corrective action, and explain why the difference matters
- Determine a cause worth acting on rather than stopping at human error
- Explain why corrective action must be verified for effectiveness and proportionate to the effects
Course Content
Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
Workers, supervisors, managers, system owners and anyone who reports, investigates or signs off problems in a certified organisation, including people asked to complete a corrective action form without being told what it is for.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 8 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 31 August 2026 and 2 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/TC 176/SC 2, Quality systemsAs at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardISO/TC 176/SC 2 news, ISO 9001 revision updateAs at 31/08/2026
- Regulator guidanceISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group, Guidance on Nonconformity - review and closing (Edition 1, 13 January 2016)As at 31/08/2026
- Regulator guidanceISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group, Guidance on Nonconformity - Documenting (13 January 2016)As at 31/08/2026
- Regulator guidanceISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group, Guidance on Customer Complaints (13 January 2016)As at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardISO 9001:2015, Quality management systems — RequirementsAs at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardISO 45001:2018, Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for useAs at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardISO/IEC 27001:2022, Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection, Information security management systems, RequirementsAs at 02/09/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds general awareness of nonconformity and corrective action requirements in ISO management system standards and does not issue a formal qualification. Completing it does not certify you, does not certify your organisation and is not a substitute for reading the applicable standard, for your organisation's own procedures or for the incident notification duties that apply under work health and safety law where you work.
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
Sample Learner
has successfully completed
Nonconformity and Corrective Action Awareness
All learning modules and the final assessment
Scan the QR code, or enter certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 at workproof.com.au/verify
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.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
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Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
