The 2026 transition path
Four courses that put your internal audits on the new edition before your certification body arrives.
- Length
- 3½ to 4½ days
- ISO 9001:2026
- Published 16 Sep 2026
- ISO 14001:2026
- Published 15 Apr 2026
- Transition
- ISO 9001 expected to close Sep 2029
- Certificate
- One per course
The 2026 Transition path is ISO 9001:2026 awareness, then ISO 14001:2026 awareness if you hold that certificate, then document and records control, then ISO 9001:2026 internal auditor. It takes three and a half to four and a half days and leaves your own audit programme testing the 2026 clauses.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Needs analysis
- 03 Programme design
- 04 Scheduling
- 05 Delivery
- 06 Assessment
- 07 Certification
- 08 Records
The 2026 transition path sits at step 3 of the delivery cycle. You receive a proposed programme and schedule.
The honest part about the deadline
The ISO 9001 transition is expected to close in September 2029.
The IAF resolution that fixes the mechanics has not been published, so we give no day-level date. Your transition audit falls where your own certificate cycle puts it.
The revision itself is mainly editorial. Most of your system stays, and a path that treats it as a rewrite wastes your money.
The sequence, and why each step is where it is
| Step and course | Why it sits here | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · ISO 9001:2026 awareness | The people who maintain the system learn what moved | 1 day |
| 2 · ISO 14001:2026 awareness | The second revised standard, taught once the shared clauses are fresh | 1 day, if certified |
| 3 · Document and records control | The sweep for procedures still citing 2015, and the external register that catches the next revision | ½ day |
| 4 · ISO 9001:2026 internal auditor | Your auditors test the new clauses before anyone external does | 2 days |
What the path leaves behind
A 2015 to 2026 change map
One page, clause numbers included, from the awareness day.
An external document register
An owner and a check date per item, so the next revision of any standard you cite gets caught.
A rebuilt audit programme
Risk-weighted, showing who audits what, with the 2026 clauses in it.
Checklists written as questions about evidence
Reusable and process-based, for clauses 4 to 10.
A certificate per participant per course
An ITF certificate of completion for each course, naming the assessment passed.
Both certificates, before a surveillance visit
A packaging manufacturer holding both 2015 certificates ran the whole path ahead of its surveillance visit.
The two awareness days ran back to back for its managers. The administrator took the document control half day and swept the procedures still citing 2015.
The internal auditor course came last, and the audit programme was rebuilt around the 2026 clauses before the visit.
The manufacturer ended up holding a change map, an external document register, a rebuilt audit programme, and a certificate per participant per course.
Where to stop
Three starting points, and what each one takes from the path.
A site that holds ISO 9001 only
Skip step 2. The path is awareness, document control and the internal auditor course, three and a half days in all.
A site that holds both 2015 certificates
Run all four steps, four and a half days. The two awareness days can run back to back for the same managers.
Internal auditors trained on the 2015 edition
Still send them to step 4. Auditing against the 2026 clauses is exactly what the transition audit will test, and the practical work is where that skill is built.
Transition questions
Do we need everyone trained before the transition audit?
No. The people who maintain the system come first, and awareness for everyone else can follow within the transition period.
What is the last date for our transition audit?
The transition is expected to close in September 2029. The day-level dates come from the IAF resolution, which has not been published, so plan against your own certificate cycle rather than a date from a training page.
Is this the same as the consultancy transition work?
No. The path trains your people. If you want the documents revised for you, ITF Consult runs the transition as a project, and the two can run side by side.
The four courses, and the project beside them
ISO 9001:2026 awareness
Step 1: what the new edition asks of ordinary jobs.
Read more1 dayISO 14001:2026 awareness
Step 2, for sites that hold the environmental certificate.
Read more½ dayDocument and records control
Step 3: the sweep for procedures still citing 2015.
Read more2 daysISO 9001:2026 internal auditor
Step 4: your auditors test the 2026 clauses first.
Read moreISO 9001Every ISO 9001 course
All six courses that touch the quality standard.
Read moreITF ConsultISO 9001:2026 transition, as a project
The documents revised by ITF Consult while your people train.
Read morePart of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Put your audits on the 2026 clauses first
Tell us which 2015 certificates you hold and when your next audit falls, and we will quote the path in the order that fits that date.