COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and exercises where participants will visit the laboratory and they will be introduced to various lab instruments and modern laboratory practices. Practical sessions will be performed using one of the lab equipment in order to apply the theory learnt in the class. 

The fast-paced modern technology has confronted the analytical laboratories with a host of new and increasingly complex materials, and has posed more stringent demands for greater sensitivity, reliability, and speed. On the other hand, the new developments in instrumentation have provided laboratories with new techniques, instruments, procedures, and reagents for dealing with these problems. This very expansion of equipment, reagents, and methodology has, however greatly complicated the task of the laboratory management and staff. 

 

Further, the new business models, industry consolidation, staffing demographics, society and regulatory expectations, and other factors are transforming nearly most aspects of the classical laboratory system. 

 

This course takes a strategic view of the laboratory system in the context of current quality management philosophies to determine options for achieving best practices. Experiences will be shared to provide insight into the obstacles and expected outcomes for the various approaches. 

 

Further, this course discusses the roadmap to improve quality, performance and evaluation of the laboratory. You will learn how modern laboratories are applying current management philosophies to get closer to the business and to streamline operations. Practical details of laboratory management such as cost control, maintaining analysis quality, improving laboratory reputation, effective staffing, capital budget justification, and so forth will be discussed but the emphasis will be on systems rather than daily operational issues. Participants are expected to share experiences and best practices. 

 

This course covers the major operations performed in the analytical laboratory. It describes the major equipment, analytical instrumentation and process analyzers used in the analytical laboratory, their operations, validations, calibration and maintenance. The course concentrates on Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) which includes development, revisions, standards and implementations. Various Quality standards will be discussed. However, the course concentrates on ISO 17025. Finally, the course demonstrates the safety practices and its critical impact in the analytical laboratory. OSHA standards and regulations will be discussed and related videos will be shown to course participants. 

 

This course links together an understanding of performance characteristics with an appreciation of the limitations imposed by analytical instrument design, leading to the interplay of the validation and qualification processes within quality assurance systems. The course includes unique framework of topics covers the major instrumental techniques of spectrophotometry, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and atomic emission spectroscopy. The use of case studies, exercises and practical applications, will help participants to develop a thorough understanding of the various concepts that underpin the different techniques. 

In addition to the wealth of knowledge provided to course participants, each participant will go back to his/her laboratory equipped with an outstanding manual that includes typical SOPs that can be modified and used within participant’s laboratory. Further, participants will be given 12 video tapes, compressed in one CD that can be used by the participant in training colleagues and subordinate on laboratory safety. 

 

This outstanding course is a must for every laboratory professional. The updated knowledge and techniques covered during the 5 days of this course, will dramatically improve not only the participant’s skills, but will also improve the performance of the participant’s laboratory as a whole. However, if you are looking to improve the performance of your laboratory, then you have to commit yourself to pass the knowledge gained in this course to your subordinates and colleagues back in your laboratory as Haward Technology will give you all the tools needed for this purpose; knowledge, skills, manual, power point slides, videos, forms and Standard Operation Procedures (SOP).