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When it comes to resource requirements, ISO 17025 has a clause encompassing externally provided products and services. Likewise, there are key aspects your laboratory must be aware of when creating a document control.   ISO 17025 requires your laboratory to ensure that only suitable externally provided products and services are used for activities. Meanwhile, aRead more

Organisations can’t avoid dealing with complaints. Therefore, your laboratory must have an effective complaints management. When there’s an established complaints procedure, your laboratory will be able to determine areas for improvement, especially in products, services, and processes. The complaints procedure according to ISO 17025 also removes the cause of the complaints and prevent problems fromRead more

            ISO 17025 has not set a format on how to write a quality manual. However, laboratories should develop a quality manual because it defines their Quality Management System and the procedures which implement it.   There are accreditation bodies that provide guidance and format in creating a quality manual document. The risk is thatRead more

ISO 17025 represents the international standard used for calibration and testing laboratories. It is a requirement set that is indicative of how standardized their management systems are and how they are technically qualified to do whatever it is they do. ISO/IEC 17025 normally refers to a standard used for spelling out requirements that should beRead more

When uncertainty isn’t taken into consideration, then the bigger the uncertainty, the greater are the odds of passing failures and failing passes. So that the uncertainty is linked to the amount of confidence. There’s an uncertainty related to every test and calibration. In fact, the uncertainty is most likely somewhat greater. Whereas it designates aRead more

ISO/IEC 17025:2017 includes many changes. There are three main points to keep in mind: more options, involvement of risk, updates in current technology. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration was released in Nov 2017. All accredited labs have to move to the new standard by late 2020, three years after theRead more

Chapter 4 : General requirements: Impartiality and Confidentiality 4.1 Impartiality The definition in ISO 17025 2017 Impartiality  is  “Presence of objectivity” and is further clarified in a note saying, “Objectivity means that conflicts of interest do not exist, or are resolved so as not to adversely influence subsequent activities of the laboratory.“   In theRead more

This new standard ISO 17025  includes some noteworthy changes related to its structure and scope that should be mentioned before we go into greater details of each section of the standard. • Structure: The new structure of the standard is no longer based on the two main chapters (four for Management requirements, and five forRead more

ISO/IEC 17025:2005 specifies the general requirements for competence, consistent and impartiality operation of laboratories. This international quality standard is applicable to all organizations performing laboratory activities, regardless of the number of personnel. Our previous two blogs regarding ISO 17025:2005 management requirements have already mentioned the required general management standards for your acknowledgement and now thisRead more

As we have already discussed about the cruciality of ISO 17025:2005 and also few of the management requirements of this standard in the first blog of this thread, this will be the continuation of other management requirements for your acknowledgement. If you have missed the first section of the management requirements for ISO 17025:2005, youRead more