LE0098-3D : ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Laboratory Management System Implementation

This includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
This course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, practical skills and systematic approach required to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve a laboratory management system (LMS) in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. It focuses on the technical, managerial, operational and quality assurance requirements necessary to demonstrate laboratory competence, impartiality, consistency and reliability of testing and calibration results.
Further, the course will also discuss the fundamental principles of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for testing and calibration laboratories; the general requirements - impartiality and confidentiality and structural requirements and laboratory organization; the personnel competence, training and authorization; the laboratory facilities and environmental conditions, laboratory equipment management and maintenance; the metrological traceability and external providers and reviewing requests, tenders and contracts; and the proper selection, verification and validation of laboratory methods.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the sampling procedures and handling of laboratory items; the technical records and measurement uncertainty; ensuring the validity of results and laboratory quality control; reporting results and laboratory information management; the laboratory management system documentation and records control; the risk-based thinking, complaints and nonconforming work; the corrective actions and continual improvement, internal auditing and management review; and the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 implementation strategy.