How your Company become ISO/IEC 17025 Accredited?

What is ISO/IEC 17025:2017?

If your Company is working on becoming ISO/IEC 17025:2017accredited. This international standard provides for the general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories and outlines some good basic business practices that you need to have in place. By implementing a Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) that complies with the international standard, your company will join an elite group of accredited laboratories around the globe.

Why your companies want to become ISO 17025 Accreditation?

The main reason is that it is the right thing to do! All of us want to do our part in having accurate and valid laboratory test and libration results.

Not only do you want to be competent and impartial, you want to improve your laboratory’s performance in a confidential and professional way.

An important benefit is that you will be able to maintain a position in the market place because more and more customers and countries are becoming results conscious and are requiring that laboratories show proof of sound commitment and services.

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CAL LAB ACCESS, LLCis an organization founded in the year 1995. CLA is a global team of quality and technical professionals with a combined world experience of more than 25 years. We (CLA) are in business to help calibration laboratories to improve business, customer relations, expand calibration capabilities, lean process, quality management system and training documentation (technical & quality) based on national & international standards. Please visit our newly designed website (www.callabaccess.com).

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ISO/IEC 17025:2017: Documentation Requirements

ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Requirements

The requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025:2017standardsare organized in five sections or “Clauses”

Section 4: General requirements

Section 5: Structural requirements

Section 6: Resource requirements

Section 7: Process requirements

Section 8: Management system requirements

Today as “We Go for ISO/IEC 17025” we are going to look at the requirements in

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Clause 4: General requirements and Clause 5: Structural requirements.

 

 

The reason we are startingwith Clause # 4 is because the first three clauses do not have actual requirements; they are more of an introduction to the standard. The requirements are outlined in clause 4 through clause 8.

Clause 4: General Requirements

This first clause introduces two sub-clauses as general requirements.

First is impartiality, where laboratory activities are undertaken and managed in a structured manner in order to safeguard impartiality and provide presence of objectivity.

Second is confidentiality, where the responsible management of information obtained or created during the operations of a laboratory is considered and treated as confidential.

CLA have developed a very strong and audit ready document that covers all the requirements of this clause with risk identification and level of risk associated with each laboratory activity.

Clause 5: Structural requirements

This clause looks at our laboratory as a legal entity where overall responsibilities

and activities are identified in order to meet all requirements and ensure valid and accurate results. This section also asks the laboratory management to ensure that the organizational roles, responsibilities, and authorities for relevant functions are assigned, communicated, and understood.

The range of our laboratory activities will determine the scope of the LQMS, and includes the various services associated with laboratory tests, calibrations, and sampling.

“Very important aspect of this clause is defining your Scope of Accreditation”

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You will need to ensure that you have the ability to consistently operate yourlab business while taking actions to address risks and opportunitiesandmeeting legal obligations.

Documented information will support the operation of the processes andprovide confidence that they are carried out as planned.

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Each laboratory processand activity are looked at to make sure that it meets the requirements of the standard. Relevant documented information is provided to make sure that the process is well planned and that everyone does the process in the same and correct way.

Procedures are used to train employees on using the approved methods,so that youcan improve lab performance.

Our procedure on Impartiality and Management Responsibilityaddresses both clause 4 and clause 5.

Our documents and procedures have been through many audits by A2LA, PJLA, ANAB, etc., with no findings. We look forward to assisting you with your ISO/IEC 17025 project.

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