About Course
Course Duration: 3 Days – 8 Hours/day
This new ISO/IEC 17025:2017 aligns and harmonizes the requirements for a Laboratory Management System with ISO 9001:2015. The three-day course incorporates and explains the amendments to clauses where ISO determined that such changes were necessary. The technical requirements for laboratories who provide testing and calibration services are enhanced by the use of management systems that incorporate the requirements of ISO 9001:2015.
The acceptance of testing and calibration results between countries and industries should be facilitated if laboratories will comply with this International Standard. The use of this standard will also facilitate cooperation between laboratories and other bodies and assist in the exchange of information and experience, standards and procedures. The introduction of the Process Approach to Management Systems and a new auditing standard which allows efficient and effective auditing of these systems can be used by internal and external auditors to meet the requirements of laboratory and quality systems.
Course Outline
Day One
- Introduction and Welcome
- Introduction to ISO/IEC 17025:2017
- What’s Changed and Improved
- Overview of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Requirements
- Group Exercises: Audit Scenarios (cont’d)
Day Two
- Overview of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Requirements (cont’d)
- Group Exercises: Audit Scenarios (cont’d)
- Introduction to Turtle Diagrams and Audit Trails
- Management of Audit Programs
- Audit Planning and Preparation
- Breakout Exercise 1: Writing an Objective and Scope Statement
- Breakout Exercise 2: Documentation Review
- Breakout Exercise 3: Creating an Audit Plan
Day Three
- Performing the Audit
- Breakout Exercise 4: Performing an Audit
- Writing Nonconformity Statements
- Breakout Exercise 5: Writing Nonconformity Statements
- Closing Meeting
- Corrective Action and Closeout
