Upon completion of the workshop you will learn how laboratories are applying current management philosophies to get closer to the business and to streamline operations. Practical details of laboratory management such as cost control, maintaining analysis quality, improving laboratory reputation, effective staffing, capital budget justification, and so forth will be discussed but the emphasis will be on systems rather than daily operational issues. Participants are expected to share experiences and best practices.

Further after completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Get solutions to your management problems from a leading authority.
• Be able to define and focus on the lab mission.
• Know how to organize to meet the requirements of a mission.
• Improve your abilities to listen and communicate.
• Understand how to motivate staff and build teams.
• Understand the manager’s job.
• Understand how the business processes of a laboratory can be combined effectively with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025
• Integrate successfully important aspects that are essential to maximizing gains from the management system
• Provide an understanding of the roles of the quality manager and technical man­agement
• Reflect their own habits and patterns of time structuring in order to detect inefficiencies and determine areas of improvement
• Learn and practice tools that will help them with time and priority management
• Learn and train to structure their daily tasks and goals according to their diverse professional roles
• Recognize and expand their own style of dealing with conflict,
• Recognize and analyze conflicts to understand how to manage them
• Negotiate with research partners and suppliers
• Manage authorship conflicts
• Ask questions that increase people awareness of and responsibility for a topic
• Help staff to solve their own scientific, technical and general lab problems
• Show staff new techniques so that they can use them themselves afterwards
• Guide scientific discussions and debates to be productive and satisfying
• Use a variety of problem-solving tools to improve their own and their lab€™s productivity

Laboratory Managers, Laboratory Supervisors, Chemists,  QA/QC mangers or auditors, Production personnel who may be responsible for in-process laboratories or testing, Instrumentation Engineers, Chemical Engineers & Industry Personnel

Day 1

• Introduction
• Chemical Laboratory, Historical and review
  • Laboratory Building
  • Laboratory Design Considerations
  • Building Design and Site Selection
  • Floor Planning
  • Laboratory Configuration
  • Building Services and Structure,
  • Laboratory Utility
• Effective Budgeting in the Laboratory
• Planning to Work in the Laboratory
• Validation and development of Analytical Methods and Pro­cedures

Day 2

•  Laboratory in Operation
• Laboratory Management and Operation
  • Principle of Leadership
  • Management Functions
  • Managerial problem Solving and Decision Making
  • Human resource Management (HRM)
  • Interactive Communication Skills
  • Fundamentals of Financial Management
  • Budgeting and financial management
• Job Responsibilities
  • Responsibilities of laboratory manager
  • Responsibilities of supervisor
  • Responsibilities of the staff

• Training
• Reports
• Dead files and old samples
• Paperwork Reduction
• Laboratory Housekeeping
• Equipment, Apparatus, Reagents, Chemicals and Glassware

 Day 3

• Safety in Laboratory
  • Safety Responsibilities and Requirement
  • Laboratory Safety Equipment
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Handling Chemicals in Laboratory
    • Understanding hazard warning information
    • Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
    • Risk and Safety Statement R/S phrases, NFPA
• Laboratory Records
  • Sample Records
  • Tests Records
  • Results Records
  • Personnel Records
  • Maintenance Records
• Laboratory Certification
• The use of computers in the laboratory
• Laboratory Information Management System LIMS

Day 4

•  Quality Control and Quality Assurance
• Evaluation of analytical data
• Correction of errors and improving accuracy
• Laboratory Data Analysis
• Laboratory Accreditation Requirement
• Quality Audit (Internal and External)
• Laboratory Audits (ISO 17025, GLP)
• Overview of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Requirements
  • Quality Manual ISO 17025
  • Organizational Structure
  • Management Requirements
    • Organization
    • Management System
    • Document control
    • Review of requests, tenders and contracts
    • Subcontracting of tests and calibrations
    • Purchasing services and supplies
    • Service to Customer
    • Complaints
    • Control of non-conforming testing/ calibration
    • Improvement
    • Corrective actions

Day 5

• Technical Requirements
  • General
  • Personnel
  • Accommodation and environmental conditions
  • Test and calibration methods and method validation
  • Equipment
  • Measurement traceability
  • Sampling
  • Handling of test and calibration items
  • Assuring quality of test and calibration results
  • Reporting the results
• Management of Audit Programs
• Audit Planning and Preparation
• Performing the Audit

RECTUS Consultant certificate will be issued to all attendees completing all the total tuition hours of the course.