About This Course
The ISO 22301 Lead Auditor programme prepares you to audit business continuity management systems (BCMS) against ISO 22301 — the international standard for keeping an organisation running through disruption. Delivered self-paced and online, it takes you from BCMS fundamentals to planning and leading a full audit using ISO/IEC 17021-1 and ISO 19011.
You’ll learn to evaluate whether an organisation can genuinely recover from incidents, gather and weigh evidence, and report findings that improve resilience — the skills a lead auditor needs for first-, second- and third-party audits.
Course Information
What You Will Learn
Course Curriculum
- Business continuity principles
- Structure and requirements of ISO 22301
- Business impact analysis and risk
- The certification landscape
- Fundamental audit concepts
- Risk-based audit thinking
- Initiating the audit and scope
- Reviewing documentation and planning
- Opening meeting
- Collecting evidence through interviews and sampling
- Testing continuity and recovery arrangements
- Grading nonconformities
- Audit conclusions and report
- Closing meeting
- Follow-up and corrective action
- Managing an audit programme
- Competency domains overview
- Revision and exam technique
- Booking and sitting the PECB exam
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All You Need to Know
This programme suits professionals who audit or oversee business continuity, including:
- Internal and external auditors
- Business continuity managers and consultants
- Risk, resilience and compliance professionals
- Anyone maintaining conformity with ISO 22301
A fundamental understanding of ISO 22301 and of audit principles is recommended.
The programme prepares you for the PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor exam, which assesses the competency domains for planning, leading and reporting a BCMS audit. Completing the training also earns 31 CPD credits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — it’s fully online and self-paced, covering the same domains as the instructor-led programme.
Lead Auditor prepares you to audit a BCMS; Lead Implementer prepares you to build and run one.
A fundamental understanding of ISO 22301 and audit principles is recommended.
After passing the exam and meeting PECB’s requirements you can apply for the PECB Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor credential.
Yes — the self-paced kit includes one certification exam and one free retake.