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| Speaker: | Hershal Brewer |
| Title: | Accreditation Bodies: Perspectives on Assessing 17025, Section 5.2 |
| Topic Group: | Workplace Development |
| E-mail: | hbrewer@iasonline.org |
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| Abstract: |
The requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 Clause 5.2 and its sub-clauses must be fulfilled by the laboratory that is accredited or seeking accreditation; and the fulfillment of the requirements is reviewed during the assessment by the accrediting body (AB). ABs have a variety of ways of looking at how laboratories comply with ensuring they have adequate staff, and that they are trained and qualified, that they have a training plan in place, that they are measuring the effectiveness of training, and so on. This presentation will focus on the ways different ABs are currently assessing section 5.2. For example, some ABs rely on the expertise of the laboratory’s technical manager to determine the extent to which planning and assessment of effectiveness meets 5.2; some ABs require all or a percentage of the laboratory staff to be Certified Calibration Technicians; some technical assessors for ABs determine what training that the laboratory has obtained documented is acceptable (assessing quality of their training sources during the assessment). A comparison of these methods will be provided. Advantages, disadvantages, and appropriateness, of these various approaches will be considered. |
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