API Q2 Implementation and Internal Auditor Training

What are the Goals? 

At the end of this API Q2 Implementation and Internal Auditor online training  course, you will learn to:

API Q2, 2^nd Edition Specification

• Industry Applicability of the API Q2 specification.
• How to apply the Process Approach to identify the organization’s core and support processes.
• The necessary steps to:
  • Implement a brand new Quality Management System based on API Q2
  • Upgrade an existing Quality Management System from ISO 9001 to API Q2
• Each of the API Q2 specification’s clause requirements, how to implement each of these clauses in the real world, and how to audit them.
• The APIQR registration and certification process.

  Internal Auditing Techniques

• Roles and responsibilities of Internal Auditors
• How to plan Internal Audits
• How to execute Internal Audits, through interviews, and review of documentation
• How to write clear nonconformities and effective Internal Audit reports
• Following up on nonconformities

Who is this Training Course for?

This API Q2 Implementation and Internal Auditor online training training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Applicants for APIQR Q2 registration
• Well-site service providers and/or operators
• Personnel involved in supplier evaluation activities
• Oil company personnel involved with specifying equipment requirement
• Anyone involved in the planning, implementing, maintaining, supervising or auditing of an API SPEC Q2 quality management system
• Existing internal auditors
• Employees of any organisation who wish to audit their organisation’s quality management system
• Trainers, managers or consultants seeking to master a quality management system audit process
• Expert advisors in quality management

This PetroKnowledge online training course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training course is conducted online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of your choice location

There are clear, competitive advantages for service companies that implement the Q2 standard for their quality management:

Operational – Having a well-structured and formalized approach to quality management improves productivity and reduces waste. Return-on-investment well exceeds implementation costs.

Requirement – Meet oil and gas industry and customer demands. This standard is quickly becoming a requirement for business sales.

Other benefits could include:

• Reduce costs.
• Improving operational efficiency, productivity, and product reliability.
• Customer satisfaction - meet customer requirements.
• Access to new markets.
• Increasing market share and sales.
• Meeting statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Increased environmental benefit.

Participants will increase their personal knowledge of and performance abilities as follows:

• Understanding good management practice
• Passing on best practice knowledge to staff they meet during audits
• Documenting and presenting to management observations and concerns in a concise manner so that improvement can be ascertained
• Advising their own organisation in improvement in quality
• Gaining knowledge of parts of their organisation that they would not normally see, thus offering themselves a greater flexibility to take on responsibilities in a wider range of departments