ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Awareness

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Description: Testing and calibration laboratories play important role is assuring quality of any product / service. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 provides guidelines for competence of laboratory. Once your laboratory complies with the requirements, it can be accredited by third party accreditation agency through Mutual recognition agreement; hence your results are globally accepted. This course will give guidelines to personnel working in test or calibration lab so as to achieve the accreditation. This helps in improving accuracy and reliability of results of your laboratory. Organizations supplying their products globally expect their products to be accepted globally without any hurdle. For this to happen it is importnat that the product is certified by third party lab whose accreditation is accepted globally through mutual recognition agreement. ISO 17025 sets guidelines for accreditation of lab. For calibration laboratories it is importnat to provide unbroken chain of traceability of it's measurements till international standards. guidelines for these are set through ISO 17025 standard. The standard has been developed jointly by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Mutual recognition agreement can be obtained if laboratory is accredited by accreditation body who is part of International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) or area specific cooperation bodies. Please note ISO 17025 is accreditation standard and not just a certification standard. Hence proving technical competence of lab is important to achieve accreditation. Competence of lab depends on it's personnel, equipment, reference materials used, test / calibration methods followed. Hence for any lab willing to achieve this accreditation it is important to select appropriate test / calibration methods. If those are not as per available international standards, method shall first be validated. Test / calibration equipment accuracy need to be established with respect to expected accuracy of results.
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