About the ISO 22000 Lead Auditor
The ISO 22000 Lead Auditor programme prepares you to audit a food safety management system (FSMS) against ISO 22000. Delivered fully self-paced and online, it takes you from FSMS and HACCP fundamentals to planning and leading a complete audit using the principles of ISO 19011 and ISO/IEC 17021-1.
You’ll learn to evaluate an organisation’s food safety controls, gather and weigh evidence, grade nonconformities and report findings that drive improvement — the skills needed for first-, second- and third-party audits.
Course Information
What You Will Learn
Course Curriculum
- Food safety and HACCP concepts
- Structure and requirements of ISO 22000
- Prerequisite programmes and control measures
- The certification landscape
- Fundamental audit concepts
- Risk-based audit thinking
- Initiating the audit and defining scope
- Reviewing documentation and planning
- Opening meeting
- Collecting evidence through interviews and sampling
- Evaluating the hazard control plan
- Drafting audit findings
- Grading nonconformities
- Audit conclusions, report and closing meeting
- Follow-up and corrective action
- Managing an audit programme
- The seven competency domains
- Revision and exam technique
- Booking and sitting the PECB exam
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All You Need to Know
This programme suits internal and external auditors, food safety and quality managers and consultants, and compliance professionals who audit or oversee an FSMS.
A fundamental understanding of ISO 22000 and of audit principles is recommended before enrolling.
The programme prepares you for the PECB Certified ISO 22000 Lead Auditor exam, which assesses seven competency domains for planning, leading and reporting an FSMS audit. Completing the training earns 31 CPD credits.
What Our Learners Say
Completing the ISO 22000 Lead Auditor course was a turning point for my career — it gave me the credibility and the technical grounding in ISO 22000 certification that my role really needed.
The ISO 22000 Lead Auditor course gave me a clear, structured path to strengthen our food safety management system. The instructors explained ISO 22000 certification in a way that was easy to apply on the job, and I passed the exam on my first attempt.
Great value for the depth of content. The ISO 22000 Lead Auditor training covered ISO 22000 certification thoroughly, and the exam voucher being included made budgeting for it simple.
What stood out about this ISO 22000 Lead Auditor training was how practical it was — real case studies, not just theory. I walked away confident about ISO 22000 certification and ready to apply it immediately.
As someone new to food safety management, I was worried the material would be too advanced. The course broke down ISO 22000 certification step by step, and support from Profice advisors made the whole process smooth.
Career Opportunities After This Training
Food safety auditors independently assess Food Safety Management Systems against ISO 22000, verifying hazard controls and supply-chain traceability.
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HACCP lead auditors specialise in verifying hazard analysis and critical control point systems as part of wider ISO 22000 certification audits.
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Quality compliance managers in food businesses run the internal ISO 22000 audit programme and coordinate corrective actions ahead of certification audits.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A PECB credential proving you can plan, conduct and lead audits of a food safety management system (FSMS) against ISO 22000, using the ISO 19011 auditing guidelines.
Auditors, food safety managers and consultants who assess or certify food safety management system implementations.
The exam is an essay-type, open-book paper of roughly 3 hours. You need the passing score set by PECB (generally around 70%). After passing you receive a 'Certificate of Exam Success', and the full certification is issued once you also meet PECB's professional-experience requirements.
The Lead Implementer learns to build, deploy and manage the food safety management system (FSMS), while the Lead Auditor learns to independently audit one against ISO 22000. Implementers work on the 'build' side; auditors on the 'assess' side. Many professionals earn both over time.
Yes — the exam voucher is included in the course package. Speak to a Profice advisor to confirm current pricing and what each package includes.