AS9120B Lead Auditor

This course prepares you to lead audits of quality management systems against AS9120B, the aviation, space and defense standard for stockists, pass-through distributors and brokers. It is written for people who will plan audit programmes, lead audit teams, grade findings and defend conclusions, whether as internal lead auditors, second-party supplier auditors or candidates for certification body work.

The clause modules go beyond interpretation to judgment: how to settle a distributor's scope when it uses third-party warehouses, how to grade a counterfeit prevention failure, how to tell a false statement of conformity from a documentation slip, and how to recognize when scattered gaps point to one leadership finding. Scenarios are drawn from certification, surveillance and second-party audits of real distributors.

You will learn the 9101 method as it applies to distribution: writing process effectiveness assessment reports for sourcing, receiving, storage and fulfilment, running stage 1 and stage 2, applying 9104-1 audit time and multi-site rules, and handling counterfeit discoveries and traceability breaks mid-audit. The ICOP scheme, auditor authentication and OASIS are covered so you understand the environment certification body auditors work in.

Shared modules on auditing fundamentals, programme management, the audit process, leading a team, nonconformities and root cause, and reporting and follow-up are expressed in AS9120B vocabulary. Eleven modules with quizzes lead to a timed final examination. Passing earns a PlanetISO Certificate of Completion valid for three years.