API Q1 Implementation 2.0

Offered via Instructor-Led (3 days)

Turn API Q1 requirements into a practical, effective quality management system.

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Build the knowledge and tools to implement API Specification Q1, 10th Edition, across organizations providing products or services to the petroleum and natural gas industry. This practical course explains what each requirement means, how to apply it, what evidence demonstrates effectiveness, and how to audit it. Realistic industry examples, Quick Sound Checks, and clause-based workshops connect the standard to daily operations.

API Q1 Implementation 2.0

Offered via Instructor-Led (3 days)

Turn API Q1 requirements into a practical, effective quality management system.

Description

Organizations serving the petroleum and natural gas industry need a quality management system that protects product conformity, meets customer and API requirements, and remains practical in daily operations. This course turns API Specification Q1, 10th Edition, into clear implementation decisions, responsibilities, controls, and evidence.

Participants work clause by clause to connect requirements with contract review, risk, design, purchasing, product realization, inspection and testing, change management, performance evaluation, corrective action, and management review.

Built on Mireaux’s proven experience implementing and auditing API quality management systems, this course covers:

What API Specification Q1, 10th Edition requires
How to implement the requirements practically
How to audit and verify implementation and effectiveness

Realistic industry examples, Quick Sound Checks, Web QMS integration, audit guidance, and clause-based workshops help participants build a QMS that is practical, maintainable, and ready for certification.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

Explain the intent of API Specification Q1, 10th Edition, and how its requirements work together as a quality management system.
Translate API Q1 requirements into practical processes, responsibilities, controls, documented information, and records appropriate to the organization.
Apply risk-based thinking and effective product-realization controls to protect product conformity and customer requirements.
Evaluate QMS implementation and effectiveness using objective evidence, performance information, and an auditor’s perspective.
Recognize weak or incomplete controls, prioritize needed actions, and use corrective action, management of change, management review, and continual improvement to strengthen the QMS.
Apply the requirements through realistic petroleum and natural gas industry examples, workshops, and Web QMS workflows.

Prerequisites

This is an implementation-level course. Participants should have work experience in quality, operations, engineering, manufacturing, inspection, supply chain, or management, along with working familiarity with quality management system concepts. Participants without this background should first complete an introductory quality management systems course or equivalent training.

Teaching Methods

Instructor-Led

3 days

$1,595

Summary Agenda

The Instructor-Led course follows this three-day sequence:

Day 1 – QMS Foundation and Documentation

Welcome and Handouts
General Appreciation of Standards
4.1.1 Quality Management System – General
4.1.2 Quality Policy
4.1.3 Quality Objectives
4.1.4 Planning the Quality Management System
4.1.5 Communication
4.2.1 Management Responsibility – General
4.2.2 Responsibility and Authority
4.2.3 Management Representative
4.3.1 Resources and Knowledge
4.3.2.1 Personnel Competence
4.3.2.2 Training
4.3.3 Work Environment
4.4.1 Documentation Requirements – General
4.4.2 Procedures

Day 2 – Document Control and Product Realization

4.4.3 Control of Internal Documents
4.4.4 Control and Use of External Documents
4.5 Control of Records
5.1 Contract Review
5.2 Planning
5.3 Risk Assessment
5.4 Design
5.5.1 Purchasing Control – Procedure
5.5.2 Purchasing Information
5.5.3 Verification of Purchased Products, Components, or Activities
5.6.1 Control of Product Realization – General
5.6.2 Quality Plan
5.6.3 Process Control Documents
5.6.4 Validation of Processes
5.6.5 Identification and Traceability

Day 3 – Product Controls, Performance, and Improvement

5.6.6 Inspection and Test Status
5.6.7 Externally Owned Property
5.6.8 Preservation of Product
5.6.9 Inspection, Testing, and Verification
5.6.10 Preventive Maintenance
5.7 Product Release
5.8 Testing, Measuring, Monitoring, and Detection Equipment
5.9 Control of Nonconforming Product
5.10 Management of Change
6.1 Monitoring, Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement – General
6.2.1 Customer Satisfaction
6.2.2 Internal Audit
6.3 Analysis of Data
6.4.1 Improvement – General
6.4.2 Corrective Action
6.5 Management Review

Successful Completion

Successful completion requires review of required materials, completion of assigned activities and workshops, and a passing score on applicable knowledge checks or course tests.

Instructor-Led participants must also attend and participate in class activities.
Self-Paced participants must complete the assigned modules, activities, and assessments.

Class Daily Schedule

Instructor-led classes typically follow this schedule, unless otherwise stated on the specific class:

Class Length

3 days

Lunch

~12:00 CST (Duration 30 minutes).

Typical Start and End Times

Day	From	To
1	08:30 CST	16:30 CST
2	08:30 CST	16:30 CST
3	08:30 CST	16:30 CST

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Payment Options

Credit Card/E-check: Register and Pay online via credit card or e-Check directly from your bank account or debit account.

Bank Wire Transfer/ACH/Purchase Order (PO): We accept payment by Bank Wire Transfer, ACH, or PO. If you’d like to use either of these payment methods and request an invoice, please email us at [email protected].

NOTE: Payments made by Bank Wire Transfer, ACH, or PO will require an additional processing fee in the amount of USD $25, that will be included on your invoice.

Registration Transfer Policy

Registrations can be transferred to other participants or to other courses provided by Mireaux Management Solutions 30 days prior to the course start date.

Registration Transfers must be submitted in writing to [email protected].
There will be a 15% administrative fee applied to each registration transfer.
Payment for any difference in price, including the 15% administrative fee, will be required at the time of transfer to other courses of equal or greater value of the original paid amount.
Registration Transfers to a course of lesser value are allowed but are not eligible for refunds.
Registration Transfers are not allowed within 30 days of the course start date.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be submitted in writing to [email protected] 30 days prior to the course start date in order to receive a refund, minus a 15% administrative fee. Cancellations are not allowed within 30 days of the course start date.