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.