Benefits of ISO 17025 for Calibration &Testing Laboratories

Summary:

This article explains the benefits testing and research laboratories can gain with ISO 17025 implementation. It also specifies the technical requirements laboratories should meet to prove the reliability of their testing results.

ISO 17025 is a well-recognized quality management standard that is meant for all types of testing laboratories. In other words, it is an certification for accreditation bodies, and therefore is unique from any other ISO standard. Organisations that achieve ISO 17025 certification are usually higher education centres, such as universities, regulators, research laboratories, product validation organisations, inspection bodies, and other conformity or quality assurance bodies. Any organisation that seeks ISO 17025 certification needs to comply with two sets of clauses, defined as the management requirements and technical requirements.

Management requirements are related to the testing approach and effectiveness of the laboratory results, and technical requirements are related to staff competence, quality of the equipment used, testing methodology, and system of reporting.

The standard addresses all aspects of a testing or calibration centre, ensuring that it can deliver accurate results. The following three points will demonstrate some benefits that atesting laboratory can enjoy with ISO 17025 certification.

Higher Reliability of Results

The first benefit that testing centres get with certification is more reliable results due to the use of working equipment and properly qualified personnel to perform the tests. Any research laboratory or calibration centre with ISO 17025 certification needs to validate its scopes and analytical methods as per the documented standard requirements.

Helps Clients Acquire Other Crucial ISO Certifications

When a business gets its products, raw materials, intermediate items, as well as the equipment used in daily processes tested and validated, they are in compliance with other crucial ISO standards, and one step closer to getting ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified. ISO 9001 addresses quality management, and ISO 14001 certification addresses environmental quality management, so they are both very important standards to implement. Because the equipment and materials used in production and the end products are thoroughly verified by the laboratories to ensure they are free from non-conformities, faulty parts, and defects, the products will not affect the environment.

Enhancement of Client Credibility

An ISO-certified testing laboratory indirectly provides an advantage to its all clients, including businesses, service providers, healthcare organisations or IT operators who send their products or equipment for validation. Therefore, customers and stakeholders will recognize their credibility as they get their products or equipment validated from a certified centre.

ISO 17025 certification clearly benefits testing and calibration centres and the businesses, service providers or organisations that use their assessment services. It gives recognition to the laboratory or testing facility and competitive advantage to the organisations that use the laboratory’s services. However, achieving ISO 17025 certification is not a one-time process, testing facilities must continuously improve their testing, analytical, and reporting systems to maintain the technical and management requirements of certification.

Contact Details:rnBusiness Name: CompliancehelprnEmail: stephen@compliancehelp.com.aurnPhone No: 1-800 503 401