ISO 17025
Unlock ISO 17025 compliance, the essential quality standard for testing and calibration labs, including environmental, forensic, and cannabis labs.
Simplified ISO 17025 compliance
ISO 17025 compliance provides laboratories with international recognition of their competence and ability to produce valid results. Provide assurance to partnering laboratories and regulatory bodies, no matter where they’re located and ensure best practices are upheld every step of the way.
- Make safety a priority
- Demonstrate high quality standards
- Meet industry requirements
The benefits of ISO 14001 certification
By identifying and addressing environmental aspects and impacts, ISO 14001 helps mitigate potential environmental incidents or liabilities. Organizations can ensure that they meet legal and regulatory environmental requirements, reducing the risk of non-compliance and associated penalties. Certification also helps organizations optimize their processes, reduce waste and lower resource consumption, leading to cost savings.
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk reduction
- Operational efficiency
Meeting the requirements of ISO 17025
ISO 17025 requirements |
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| Processes for ensuring quality must be explicitly documented and accessible at the point of need for all relevant parties, including auditors. | Robust document control is central to Ideagen Quality Management. Documents can be stored, tracked centrally, and retrieved promptly when required. |
| Labs must identify, understand, and manage significant risks, particularly those that may impact the accuracy, safety, and security of their procedures and results. | Ideagen Quality Management simplifies non-conformance management, and it provides a 360-degree view of risks, implementing best-in-class CAPA. |
| Labs must be able to prove that they are identifying areas for continual improvement to provide better service and improved outcomes. | The reporting and analysis functionality within Ideagen Quality Management makes the identification of trends and key areas for process improvement easy. |
| The lab must be able to demonstrate that all staff have the appropriate training and competency to deliver services of a high standard. | Ideagen Quality Management includes a user-friendly module for tracking and managing the training and competency of staff. It assigns training automatically for convenience. |
ISO 17025 FAQs
Is ISO 17025 a requirement for testing and calibration labs?
Despite not being mandatory, the ISO/IEC 17025 is internationally recognized as a “gold standard” of quality.
Whether it's guaranteeing the safety of construction materials or furnishing crucial forensic investigations with indispensable insights, the assurance of reliability and authenticity that ISO 17025 provides is incredibly valuable.
How difficult is it to attain ISO 17025 accreditation?
Accreditation bodies aren’t out to make the process of gaining accreditation needlessly challenging.
However, implementing a quality management system that meets ISO 17025 can be difficult if quality hasn’t been prioritized in your organization.
Is QMS software necessary to ensure compliance?
Even though it's not a requirement for ISO 17025 compliance, having a quality management system can make a big difference in achieving and maintaining compliance.
Ideagen Quality Management, a preferred choice across the globe, is a great tool that can simplify the process of achieving ISO 17025 compliance.
Who provides ISO 17025 certification?
In the UK, ISO/IEC 17025 certification is primarily granted by UKAS, while in the US, A2LA and ANAB lead the charge.
Globally, bodies like IAS handle accreditation, with national entities like COFRAC in France and Denmark's DANAK also in operation.
Who is ISO 17025 for?
ISO 17025 is applicable to many different testing and calibration facilities across a range of sectors.
It has been embraced in sectors like forensics, asbestos testing, acoustics, chemicals, fiber optics, food, textiles, and cannabis labs. Medical labs are a slight exception, with their own dedicated ISO standard.
How often is ISO 14001 certification renewed?
ISO 17025 does not override local regulations and requirements. While it provides a framework for quality assurance and reliability, it is not intended to supersede national or local legal and regulatory requirements.
Instead, it operates in harmony with these laws, ensuring labs are able to meet their legal obligations and the high standards of quality and performance expected.
