ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management System Lead Auditor
Course Description
The ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) Lead Auditor Course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and competence required to plan, conduct, lead, and manage business continuity management system audits in accordance with ISO 22301:2019 and internationally recognized auditing guidelines. The course prepares learners to take on the role of a lead auditor, capable of supervising audit teams and evaluating an organization’s ability to maintain critical operations during disruptions and crises.
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Interpret ISO 22301:2019 requirements from an auditing perspective.
- Understand the principles and responsibilities of a BCMS lead auditor.
- Plan, conduct, and manage business continuity system audits.
- Lead audit teams and coordinate audit activities effectively.
- Collect, evaluate, and verify objective audit evidence.
- Identify, classify, and report nonconformities and improvement opportunities.
- Conduct effective opening and closing meetings with stakeholders.
- Prepare clear and professional audit reports.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business continuity management systems.
- Support organizational resilience and continual improvement initiatives.
Register Your Interest
Interested in ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management System Lead Auditor? Fill out your details below and our team will get in touch.
- Aspiring and practicing lead auditors
- Internal auditors and audit team members
- Business continuity and risk management professionals
- HSE, QHSE, and compliance officers
- IT disaster recovery and resilience professionals
- Managers responsible for operational continuity
- Consultants involved in BCMS implementation and auditing
- A good understanding of ISO 22301:2019 requirements and prior internal auditing experience is recommended.
"The most dangerous document in any organization is the business continuity plan that has never survived contact with a real disruption, and Qesh Standards Limited’s ISO 22301:2019 Lead Auditor course ensured I will never write, audit, or trust one of those paper shields again. Through a devastatingly realistic multi-day simulation—a cyber-attack that cascaded into supplier collapse, then a utilities failure, all while our mocked-up BCMS documents sat uselessly in a folder because no one had rehearsed the manual workarounds—they taught us to audit not for clause conformity but for genuine recovery capability, tracing a single critical activity through business impact analysis, strategy selection, exercise debriefs, and all the way up to leadership’s strategic grasp of continuity."
- Stanley Ohenma
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