LE0444 : Maintenance and Calibration of Laboratory Equipment

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. Practical sessions will be
performed using one of the lab equipment in
order to apply the theory learnt in the class.
This course is designed to provide participants
with a detailed and up-to-date overview of
Maintenance and Calibration of Laboratory
Equipment. It covers the types of laboratory
equipment, equipment classification based on
function and critical versus non-critical equipment;
the equipment maintenance, laboratory safety and
equipment handling, equipment documentation
and records and calibration concepts; the
regulatory and quality standards and ISO/IEC
17025 requirements; and the good laboratory
practice (GLP), FDA and GMP considerations and
audit and compliance requirements.
Further, the course will also discuss the analytical
balances maintenance, pH meters maintenance,
centrifuges maintenance and microscopes
maintenance; the spectrophotometers
maintenance, temperature monitoring and control,
defrosting procedures, alarm systems and backup
power; the sample storage best practices of
refrigerators and freezers; the calibration intervals
and scheduling, balance calibration, temperature
equipment calibration and volume measurement
calibration; and the pressure and vacuum
calibration and electrical equipment calibration.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the preventive maintenance,
troubleshooting laboratory equipment, equipment qualification and validation and
environmental control in laboratories; the risk management in equipment maintenance,
quality assurance in calibration and audit preparation and compliance; the key elements
of calibration reports, measurement uncertainty reporting, acceptance criteria
documentation and record retention policies; the equipment lifecycle management, best
practices in laboratory maintenance; and the future trends in laboratory equipment.