ISO/IEC 17025 Testing and Calibration Laboratories
ISO/IEC 17025 Testing and Calibration Laboratories is based on ISO 9001 with a particular focus on testing and calibration bodies. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It is the single most important standard for calibration and testing laboratories around the world for Testing and Calibration is a critical part of product development / product validation. Many of your customers need the assurance that their product meets the relevant standards and requirements before they report or launch. How do your customers feel assured that their nominated laboratory provides repeatable results and quality outcomes? These organizations need the assurance of working with an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Update
ISO 17025:2017 is the latest revision to the standard, see https://www.iso.org/standard/66912.html
ISO 17025 Accreditation Benefits
As a laboratory’s quality management system is thoroughly evaluated on a regular basis to ensure continued technical competence and compliance with ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation requirements, it has incorporated an overall system for technical and quality management, which results in benefits observed in daily laboratory practices. Technical requirements were updated to include the addition of formal personnel training plans and detailed records, method development and validation procedures, measurement of method uncertainty, and a defined equipment calibration and maintenance program.
ISO 17025 Technical Requirements
Core Compliance has the expertise in designing a management system and implementing all of the ISO 17025 Technical requirements to set a clear road map to ISO 17025 accreditation. The foundation would include the following:
- Personnel
- Accommodation and environmental condition
- Testing calibration methods and method validation
- Equipment
- Measurement tractability
- Sampling
- Handling of test and calibration items
- Assuring the quality of test and calibration results
- Reporting the results