Areas Of Study
Program Level Description
- Any module taken individually can be given a certificate
- Specialised quality related courses
- Introduction to Quality Systems
- Implementing quality and quality management systems and auditing at
operations level and middle management
- Implementing quality and quality management systems and auditing at operations level, middle management or senior management positions or is in leadership
Required Qualifications
- Literate and understand training in English and be in a position to write an exam for the individual course.
- 3/5 “O” levels.
- Employed or not employed.
- University students before attachment.
- 3/5 “O” Levels.
- Employed
- University students on attachment or in their final year.
- Demonstrated equivalent knowledge in quality management via previous quality related study from acceptable training organisations.
- 5 “O” Levels.
- Emlpoyed
- Demonstrated equivalent knowledge in quality management via previous quality related study from acceptable training organisations.
- Prerequisite completion of Foundation and Practitioner levels.
- Training / Courses offered by IQS will be exempted”
- Equivalent course offered by other institutes/consultants that are recognize by IQS will be exempted”
Programs Structure
The programs consist of modules that are in three categories which include common modules, core modules and elective modules. Common modules are modules that are undertaken at a certain level by all students studying quality systems courses for certificate type 1. Certificate type 1 courses are the quality system courses for Foundation, Practitioner and Diploma levels. Core modules are modules specific to a study level and specific to an operational sector e.g. laboratory, industrial, inspection and services sectors. Elective module are optional modules where students select what applies to them. All the common and core courses are compulsory.
Programs Offered
Laboratory Quality System
Common modules
- Introduction to Quality Systems
- Development & Implementation of a Quality System
Core Modules
- Developing a laboratory management system
- Laboratory support operations / laboratory technician
- Laboratory Safety & Waste Management
- Introduction to Method Validation
- Laboratory management information system (LIMS) and maximizing benefits for LIMS
Elective/ optional modules
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 17025
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 15189
- Good Clinical Laboratory Practice
- Introduction to HACCP Principles
Common modules
- Quality management principles
- Planning of management systems
- Root cause Analysis, Statistical Techniques & Problem-solving
- Management System Auditing
- Management review and Review of performance
- Integration of management systems and audits
core modules
- Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements
- Method validation and uncertainty of measurement
- Statistical quality control for laboratory
- Risk Management and Opportunity Identification and Feasibility Study
- Laboratory report writing & technical writing skills
Elective/ optional modules
- Practical internal auditing ISO 17025
- Practical internal auditing ISO 15189
HACCP Application Monitoring & Evaluation
Industrial Quality Systems
Common modules
- Introduction to Quality Systems
- Development & Implementation of a Quality System
Core modules
- Developing an industrial quality management system
- Management information System
Elective/ optional modules
- Introduction to HCCP Principles
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 9001
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 14001
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 45001 and ISO 45002
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 17020
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 22000
Common modules
- Quality management principles
- Planning of management systems
- Root cause Analysis, Statistical Techniques & Problem-solving Techniques
- Management System Auditing
- Management review and Review of performance
- Integration of management systems and audits
Elective/ optional modules
- Practical internal auditing ISO 9001
- Practical internal auditing ISO 14001
- Practical internal auditing ISO 45001 ISO 45002
- Practical internal auditing ISO 17020
- Understanding the ISO standard ISO 22000
- HACCP Application Monitoring & Evaluation
Diploma in Quality Systems
Common modules
- Organizational management
- Developing an effective management system
- Management System Monitoring and Maintenance
- Bench marking and Continuous Improvement for Efficient businesses
- Capital budgeting
- Research Project
Specialised Quality-Related Courses
- General Awareness training
- Executive Awareness training
- Management system transition
- Statistical Method Validation and Uncertainty of Measurement
- Laboratory Support Operations
- Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for Analytical laboratories
- Practical Food Microbiology
- Laboratory Supervision and Management
- Quality Management in the Medical Laboratory
- Development and Implementation of ISO 17025 Management System
- Development and Implementation of ISO 15189 Management System
- Development and Implementation of ISO 17020 Management System
- Development and Implementation of ISO 9001 Management System
- Internal Auditing of ISO 17025 Management System
- Internal Auditing of ISO 15189 Management System
- Internal Auditing of ISO 17020 Management System
- Internal Auditing of ISO 9001 Management System
- Management System Documentation
HEXCO
- National Certificate in Accountancy
- National Certificate in Human Resource Management
- National Certificate in Purchasing and Supply Management
- National Certificate in Sales and Marketing management