Implementing Iso Iec 17025 2017

The focus of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing a road map for organizations wishing to receive accreditation for their laboratories. AS9100, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016 are standards that have been created to support the development and implementation of effective approaches to quality management, and are recognized blueprints for the establishment of a quality management system (QMS) for many diverse industries. Similar to these recognized QMS standards, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for laboratory accreditation serves a unique purpose. It is not unusual for laboratories to retain dual certification in ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017. However, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 contains requirements specific to the laboratory environment that are not addressed by ISO 9001:2015. This book highlights those differences between ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing practical insight and tools needed for laboratories wishing to achieve or sustain accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. For those currently or formerly accredited to the 2005 version of ISO/IEC 17025, an appendix outlines the changes between the 2005 and 2017 versions of the standard.

Laboratory accreditation has assumed immense importance in recent years because of the need to assure the customer that the laboratory is capable of providing the valid test results reliably. ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System has become part of the requirement of all the laboratories, small to large. Over the years, ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System has evolved, as per the laboratory and customer requirements, and has become very important for improving laboratory systems and processes in order to sustain competitive advantages. This book focuses on requirements and key features of ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System such as risk-based thinking, PDCA approach, process management, and continual improvement. The readers would find it easier to understand the standard requirements and implement these in their work place.

The purpose of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2005 while providing a road map for organizations that wish to receive/maintain accreditation for their laboratories. AS9100, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 are standards that support the development and implementation of effective approaches to quality management and are recognized blueprints for the establishment of a quality management system (QMS) for diverse industries. Although similar to these recognized QMS standards, ISO/IEC 17025 serves a unique purpose: laboratory accreditation. It is not unusual for laboratories to retain dual certification to ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025.

The focus of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing a road map for organizations wishing to receive accreditation for their laboratories. AS9100, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016 are standards that have been created to support the development and implementation of effective approaches to quality management, and are recognized blueprints for the establishment of a quality management system (QMS) for many diverse industries. Similar to these recognized QMS standards, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for laboratory accreditation serves a unique purpose. It is not unusual for laboratories to retain dual certification in ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017. However, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 contains requirements specific to the laboratory environment that are not addressed by ISO 9001:2015. This book highlights those differences between ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 17025:2017, while providing practical insight and tools needed for laboratories wishing to achieve or sustain accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. For those currently or formerly accredited to the 2005 version of ISO/IEC 17025, an appendix outlines the changes between the 2005 and 2017 versions of the standard.

In this book I present you the easiest and fastest way to implement the ISO/IEC17025:2017 standard in a laboratory, I teach you the most common templates used, which will solve some problems, I teach you how to face the standard and prepare for the Laboratory accreditation.

Quality control and assurance cover a diverse area of modern life and play, undeniably, an important role. This book brings together a collection of international papers that showcase examples of current research and practice in industry and the medical profession. It is hoped that engineers, researchers and scientists will be assisted in their continuous quest for excelling in qualitative aspects. The Ancient Greek word arete means excellence or virtue and defines the highest qualitative state: a mans effectiveness and skill in goodness (optimum potentiae). Indeed, Ancient Greeks believed that without quality control, specifications are useless and may result to illegitimacy, which in turn may become a threat to society itself.

ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management system is adopted by laboratories for accreditation and improvement purpose. This book, written by practicing consultants is a diagrammatic representation of requirements of the standard. It is easy to refer, read and understand. The lab personnel, consultants and auditors would find this book useful as a ready reckoner.

This book presents the Quality System Procedure for implementation of ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System Standard. It covers all the mandatory procedures required by the standard and other relevant procedures. Total 25 procedures are included in this book. Each Procedure is formatted and the records related to it are specified. Diagrams are included in the procedure to understand the clause requirements. The organizations going for Lab Accreditation or wants improvement in the system will find this book useful for developing their own procedure manual which would suffice to the standard requirements.