ISO 17025:2005 Requirements Interpretation, Implementation & Assessment (RQ232)

SynopsisThe workshop reviews ISO 17025:2005 standard requirements including the management requirements and the technical requirements. The management requirements includes the management system, organization, documentation control, review of contract, subcontractor management, purchasing requirement, customer complaints, control of nonconforming testing and calibration work, improvement, corrective and preventive actions, control of records, internal audit, and management review.

The technical requirements include personnel qualification, environmental conditions, test and calibration methods and method validation, estimation of uncertainty of measurement, control of data, equipment, measurement traceability, sampling technique, handling of test and calibration items, assuring the quality of test and calibration results, report the result, calibration certificate, opinions and interpretations, testing and calibration results obtained from subcontractors, electronic transmission of results, format of reports and certificates, and, amendments to test reports and calibration certificates.

What You Will LearnAfter attending the seminar, the attendees will obtain a useful high level understanding to design, develop, implement, deploy, and maintain a quality management system and a technical system that complies with ISO 17025:2005 standard to achieve accreditation status.

Who Should Attend

• Calibration laboratory technicians/engineers/managers
• Testing laboratory technicians/engineers/managers
• Reliability engineers
• Manufacturing engineers
• Product engineers
• Metrologists

PrerequisiteNo

Course MethodologyThe course materials is presented in an interactive lecture style, as well using class exercise, group discussion, and pop quiz to demonstrate the concepts introduced.

Course Duration3 days, 9am - 5pm

Course Structure1. Introduction
Objectives
ISO 17025:2005 overview
Overview of Accreditation/Certification Process
Difference between Certification & Accreditation

• Accreditation Process
• Certification Process

2. Management Requirements
Organization

• Technical Manager & Quality Manager

Management System
Document Control

• Level of documents

Review of requests, tenders, and contracts
Subcontracting of tests and calibrations
Purchasing services and supplies
Service to the customer
Complaints
Control of nonconforming testing and/or calibration work

• Control of equipment out-of-tolerance
• Managing recall program

Improvement
Corrective action
Preventive action
Control of records
Internal audits
Management reviews

3. Technical Requirements
General Technical requirements
Personnel

• Knowledge assessment on technical and quality system

Accommodation and environmental conditions
Test and calibration methods and method validation.

• Test method/system buyoff
• Measurement uncertainty analysis - GUM

Equipment

• Equipment calibration interval management
• Working standard management system
• Equipment cross check
• Reliability target
• Protection/Maintenance of adjustment data of working standards

Measurement traceability

• Traceability tree
• Classification ofstandards
• Type of Metrology Lab
• Hierarchy of Standards and Laboratories

Sampling - mainly for testing lab
Handling of test and calibration items
Assuring the quality of test and calibration results

• Inter-lab comparison
• Trending
• TAR & Guard-banding
• Reporting the results