Course Details

This training for Food Laboratory QMS - ISO 17025 Developmental Implementation's main objective is to facilitate delegates’ understanding of how the business processes of a laboratory can be combined effectively with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 and to provide an understanding of the roles of the quality manager and technical management.

Contents:

• Introductions and course briefing
• Laboratory structure to ensure integrity and competence
• Exercise : Quality management system as a framework for the testing processes and the role of ISO 17025
• Exercise : Laboratory facilities
• Services and supplies
• Exercise: Ensuring competence: equipment
• Exercise: Ensuring competence – personnel
• Exercise: Documentation and documentation control process
• Exercise: Handling of samples and items from customers for calibration and test
• Exercise: Report back on exercise
• Ensuring competence – performance of calibrations and tests
• Exercise: Ensuring competence – management controls
• Exercise: Identifying potential and actual non-conforming work
• Exercise: Process of recording and storage and retrieval of records
• Reporting results to client including opinions and interpretations
• Complaints process