ISO 17025 (ISO/IEC 17025)- Laboratory Accreditation

Quality Management System

ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratory Accreditation Standard is for improving overall quality of a Laboratory. ISO 17025 fulfills the requirements of highly technical competence and management system thus ensuring your test results & calibrations are consistently accurate.

Laboratory Accreditation is used globally for determining technical competence because ISO 17025 uses such criteria and procedures that are specifically developed to determine technical competence. Professionally skilled staff (technical assessors) thoroughly evaluate all factors in a laboratory that can affect the test results or calibration data. This ISO Standard is used by Laboratory Accreditation bodies to assess different factors relating to a specific laboratory's ability to produce precise, accurate test and calibration data.

ISO/IEC 17025 also covers the basic elements of ISO 9001 Quality Management System Standard. Accredited laboratories are regularly re-examined to ensure continued compliance. Regular proficiency testing programs are also held to evaluate laboratories competence.

ISO 17025 - Laboratory Accreditation is a standard for improving the lab’s quality. This particular ISO Standard makes sure that your Test Results are properly calibrated and accurate each time by implementing all the technical and managerial requirements.

To determine lab's technical competence, ISO 17025 is used as a standard globally. All factors in a lab are evaluated by professional technical assessors to make sure that the product, test or calibration data is up to the mark. It also checks the following factors:

• Staff's technical competence. 
• Test methods are valid and properly being held.
• Calibration and trace-ability of measurement is up to national standard.
• Test equipment are suitable and meet the international standards.
• Testing environment is according the international standards.
• Sampling, handling and transportation of test items.
• Quality assurance of test and calibration data

ISO/IEC 17025 - Laboratory Accreditation also covers ISO 9001 - Quality Management System Standard in order to ensure consistency and quality. Laboratories are examined on regular interval basis to check they are following the guidelines drawn by ISO 17025. For organization's competence demonstration, laboratories may require to participate in regular proficiency testing programs.