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By: Marina Guevrekian,
Ph.D., ASQ/CQA
Recertification chair,
ASQ Section 702,
What is a recertification and why should you recertify?
You have provided a lot
of efforts to earn your certification(s) through a quite difficult and
challenging exam.
This certification is
valid for 3 years from the date of issue.
You might have one or
more of the following certifications. ASQ requires the certification(s) to be
recertified every three years to ensure the level of knowledge at the time of
the certification exam:
·
CQA;
Certified Quality Auditor
·
CAE;
Certified Quality Engineer
·
CMQ/OE;
Certified Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence
·
CPGP;
Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional
·
CRE;
Certified Reliability Engineer
·
CSQE;
Certified Software Quality Engineer
·
CBA;
Certified Biomedical Auditor
·
CCT;
Certified Calibration Technician
·
CHA;
Certified HACCP Auditor
·
CSSBB;
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
·
ASQ/DON Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Please note that the Quality Inspector, Quality Improvement
Associate, Quality Process Analyst, Quality Technician and Six Sigma Green Belt
are lifetime certifications and do not have any recertification requirements.
Maintaining your
certification will guarantee the “Advantage” you have over the competition.
Certification is a stamp
of excellence. All the company’s are looking for certified professional in
different fields. The certification will give to your employer the assurance of
your competence and the knowledge that will reflect on your work results and
company’s products.
How should you
recertify?
You have two options for recertification:
a) Recertification by Exam
You have one year from
the expiration date of your certification to recertify by exam before your certification(s)
will lapse and will be deleted from your certification records. Taking again
the exam is not the easiest way to recertify and I don’t think
this alternative will be the first choice for a lot of our members.
You can obtain 18
recertification units (RUs) within your three-year certification period. You
can accumulate credits from professional activities that increase your
understanding of the Body of Knowledge or enhance your job.
What should you do for the recertification process?
1.
Review the Recertification Journal
Application
You
may document your activities in your Recertification Journal Application.
You’ll find the specific instructions on how
to fill out the journal/application.
ASQ recertification journal application is a form you can use
to record activities that can count toward your recertification, such as
courses you have taken, employment history, committee work or presentations you
have performed and publications you have authored or co-authored.
You
may submit recertification journal packets up to six months before or after
your certification expiration date.
(The six months after
your expiration date is a "grace period," so that you can collect
your documentation and submit your journal package along with payment.) Credits
collected after your expiration date will apply toward your next
recertification cycle.
2.
Recertification Units
Recertification
units can be earned for many different activities—professional development,
employment, teaching, taking a course, attending meetings, etc.
Review a list of activities
and the recertification units associated with each.
The recertification
journal explains how many RUs you can claim for each activity you complete.
Definitions to help you
fill out correctly your Recertification Journal
·
Professional development means any type of conference, seminar,
workshop, symposium or forum you attend. This should not be confused with the
Student Courses section of the journal.
·
Student courses are those either sponsored by your company or by
an accredited, outsourced training facility that teaches career-related
techniques. Such courses include, but are not limited to, computer classes,
at-work people skills, other association training classes and job function
training. Also, classes offered by an accredited college qualify.
·
Home study and online courses may be used toward recertification,
but not the homework portion. Assigned CEUs or contact hours must be included
with the course certificate to be accepted.
·
Any "course instructor" credit claimed must be above
and beyond your regular required job duties and responsibilities if you are
claiming credit in addition to employment credit, and must be specified as such
on your documentation.
·
The recertification program does not grant recertification units
for auditing functions. This is part of your employment credit.
·
Exam refresher courses taken before your initial certification
cannot be counted toward recertification. You may, however, count those courses
toward another certification's recertification requirements, as long as the
refresher course covers at least one area of that Body of Knowledge or is
job-enhancing.
3.
Your Completed Journal/Application or Recertification Application is
completed and
ready to be sent out
Send
your completed recertification
journal/application along with the
copy of all supporting documents for your claims, your check for payment or
credit card information to me through the regular mail.
388, El Nido Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91107
OR
For quicker and
paperless process you can also scan (pdf format please) all the documents
supporting your claims for the RUs, your recertification journal/application
along with the credit card information and email it to me at: recert@asq702.org.
If you chose to use the
E-recertification you can not use a check payment and a credit card must be
used.
I’ll review your journal
along with the copies of the supporting documents and the payment. If the
package is complete & acceptable, I’ll sign your journal acceptance page
& send it to the ASQ headquarters to be processed.
NEVER SEND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AS THE JOURNALS ARE NOT
RETURNED AND COULD GET MISPLACED. SEND A COPY OF ALL YOUR SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
FOR THE CLAIMED RUs.
Thank you and looking
forward to working with you