BASED ON ISO/IEC 17025 STANDARD
January 13, 2011
Dr. Mala Khan
Project Director,BCSIR
CONTENTS
⌧ISO/IEC 17025:2000
⌧ISO 9001 and 17025
⌧Conformity Assessment and ISO Standard
⌧Composition of the Standard
⌧Assessment for Accreditation of 17025
⌧Steps for Building a Laboratory Management
System
⌧(Assuring of the Quality of Test Results)
⌧(Uncertainty of Measurement)
ISO/IEC 17025:2005
(Romanian version : SR EN ISO/CEI 17025:2005)
Title: “General Requirements for the Competence of
Testing and Calibration Laboratories”
ISO : International Organization for Standardization
IEC : International Electrotechnical Commission
ISO 17025 is written as a general description applicable to both “testing laboratories” and
“calibration laboratories”.
In case of a testing laboratory, it can be read by omitting the following words and phrases; “…and calibration lab.”,
“calibration lab.”, ”or calibration”, and so on.
ISO 9001 and 17025
ISO 9001:2000
Title “Quality Management Systems – Requirements”
Assure the quality of products/ services, and rise
Customer Satisfaction.
Applicable for any kind of organizations, i.e. manufacturer, service company or governmental administration, etc.
For a testing laboratory, there are many difficult point and insufficient parts to understand.
Certified registration of ISO 9001 system itself does not assure the ability of taking proper data and results.
ISO 9001 and 17025
ISO/IEC 17025
Any testing/ calibration laboratory shall satisfy all the requirements, in order to prove that the laboratory maintains the appropriate management systems, technical competence, and abilities to report proper results.
It should be used as the basis for the laboratory accreditation. All the requirements of ISO 9001 relevant to the scope of testing services are incorporated.
Conformity Assessment and ISO Standard
Conformity assessment: To check and confirm if the products or