Wednesday, October 2, 2019

About ISO 17025 Scope of Accreditation and Requirements


Quality Management System consist of the following documents at a minimum:
A laboratory should have a quality manual to describe it processes how company will work to meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 standard.
A set of documented instructions which can be called as procedures to define each process in detailed.
Work instructions to cover the technical and quality aspects of the business.
In addition to this, laboratory should define the roles and responsibilities for all individuals who are responsible for day to day activities, best approach to define is to develop an organization chart.

Roles & Responsibilities
ISO 17025 QMS - ISO/IEC 17025 requires an organization process that includes technical staff, quality and management team to oversee the complete activities of the laboratory, this includes training, verification and effectiveness for lab personnel. Lab personnel have defined roles & responsibilities base on their competency to improve knowledge and can also expand skill. This will boost employee morale and provides them confidence in their work.

  


Cost Saving Solutions
ISO/IEC 17025 standard has very unique guidelines and requires testing and calibration laboratories to monitor, control and validate results. Recording and reporting results correctly helps minimize the lab’s resources on rework and operational costs. When the rework process is reduced, resources can be utilized towards improvement and ROI will be huge. In a nutshell, an ISA/IEC 17025 standard proposes and recommends to have control over laboratory operations and hence reduces the operational costs accordingly.

ISO17025 scope of accreditation - Improve Customer Satisfaction Level
Laboratories will gain confidence from their customers and make them Apostles. Once your customer become an Apostle then you do not have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in marketing, customer recommendation will go beyond marketing email. Prospects become your customers easily, since your laboratory has shown professionalism and has the competency to provide services on-time and every time because of the implementation of ISO/IEC 17025 management system.It ensures that your lab is operating efficiently, consistently and is dedicated to providing the best services and correct results, and therefore customers are recommending to their peers.

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