Quality leadership for directors: the management system, culture and accountability
A course for quality directors and senior leaders who own the quality management system: how ISO 9001:2026 frames leadership and quality culture, how the seven quality management principles guide board-level choices, how context, risk and opportunity are planned together, how performance evaluation and improvement are governed, how product-safety duties sit with economic operators under the EU General Product Safety Regulation where it applies, and how audit programmes and certification are steered. Five modules, each with a worked example, and a 10-question final quiz. Based on cited public pages from ISO and EUR-Lex. Not legal advice and not an accredited qualification.
What you will learn
- Explain and apply: Describe how ISO 9001:2026 frames leadership and quality culture, and how the seven quality management principles guide a director’s choices.
- Explain and apply: Explain how the organization determines context and interested parties, and why the 2026 edition treats risk and opportunity as separate planning duties.
- Explain and apply: Govern performance evaluation and improvement of the QMS, including monitoring, analysis and management review.
- Explain and apply: Identify product-safety duties that sit with economic operators under the EU General Product Safety Regulation, where that regulation applies.
- Explain and apply: Steer the audit programme and certification transition without treating the certificate as a substitute for the management system.
modules
- Leadership, culture and the quality principles
- Context, risk and opportunity
- Performance evaluation and improvement
- Product safety and the economic operator
- Audit, certification and an integrated system
Practical education only. It is not legal advice and not an accredited qualification. ISO 9001 sets requirements for a quality management system; certification is optional and transition rules are set in the certification cycle. The EU General Product Safety Regulation applies according to whether a product is placed or made available on the Union market. Figures and names in worked examples are illustrative.