Riyadh Group - First Workshop: ISO17100 Certified Translator

 Riyadh Group: ISO17100 Certified Translator

https://translationstandards.net/workshop-updated/

Yesterday, I conducted the 1st session of the online workshop with quite an enthusiastic group of professional translators from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The objective is to prepare the trainees for the ISO17100 Initial Certification Audit. Therefore, the content of the three and half hours workshop was about:

• Basic Information / ISO Standards & Quality Management
• About ISO 17100 & Other Industry Standards
• The Structure of ISO 17100:2015
• The content of the needed system documentation
• Sample Handbook
• Sample of an Application for Translation Management System
• Needs of Translation Project Management skills with course samples
• General marketing hints at winning international organizations and clients

The documentation and records provided to the trainees:

• Booklet: Global Recognition Guideline for Translation Service Providers
• ISO17100:2015 Certification Scheme
• Sample Handbook
• Sample ISO17100 Certificate
• The original texts of the ISO17100 Standard
• e-Book: Get the ISO17100 Certificate for Translation Service Providers
  
• The complete Zoom voice record of the training session

After the session I contacted one of the trainees to get a quick feedback:

https://translationstandards.net/workshop-updated/

Mohamed is the interpreting services expert and primary auditor of ATCC

 Mohamed is the interpreting services expert and primary auditor of ATCC. What an email 😍

One Global Solutions Ltd. Leads, UK

 Today I conducted the Second Surveillance Audit according to ISO 17100 by the international translation & localization service provider from Lead, UK, ONE GLOBAL. They could demonstrate maintaining a solid Quality Management System. The Top Management could persuade me that they focus on the desired client satisfaction and deliver to their team all needed technical and human resources to fulfill all the standard requirements and client specifications. 

The company passed the audit. Congratulations.

Dr. Mohamed-Ali Ibrahim, Vienna - Austria

Iran TransNet

 Today I audited the Persian company Iran TransNet. The CEO of the company, Mr. Saeednejad, and his team were excited and well-prepared like the first time I conducted their Initial Certification Audit based on EN15038 in 2013. As you can guess, this is a highly committed team, insisting on ongoing development. I remember the translator conference they organized in Tehran with me as a key-note speaker in 2018. We provided skills development lectures and workshops for a hundred freelancers, translation project managers, and quality assurance officers during the two days. It was a great event.

The secret of success here is the culture of continuous improvement and always being close to the translators (Their website is a genuine forum for their translators, revisers, and team members.)

Iran TransNet has done excellent and passed the ISO 17100 Re-certification Audit.

Congratulations

Dr. Mohamed-Ali Ibrahim

Certification Activities / up-dtae

• Mr. Sameh Ragab from Arabian had passed his Surveillance Audit EN 15038 in Cairo: Dec 5, 2010

Ms. Nermin Abdelwahid and Mr. Samy Shalaby are now authorised EN 15038 Lead Auditor of the Certification Body: Austrian Standards plus Certification. CongratulationsA

A Supervisor EN 15038 Audit. From left: Lead Auditors Shalaby, Ibrahim, Abdelwahid. Auditees: Khalifa and Hasan.

Candidates to be authorized Lead Auditors of AS+C are EN 15038 certified translators with respectable work experience. After going through a special "Lead Auditor Training in accordance with ISO 19011 & EN 15038" the candidates attend at least 3 audits under observer statutes, Each candidate has then to conduct a complete audit under the supervision of a Lead Auditor. Depending on the report of the supervisor, the certification body decides upon appointing the candidates as authorized Lead Auditors.