This course provides guidance for development and implementation of a credible quality assurance program, plus it also provides chemists and chemical researchers, and all scientists and managers the ideal means to ensure accurate and reliable work reference to ISO 17025; 2017.

The course is of interest for all Laboratory staff, Chemists and technicians, specially who work with quality control and assurance.

Mean structure of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 

• Introduction to ISO/IEC 17025
• History, terms and definitions
• Analytical Measurement
• Types of analytical Analysis
• Chemical laboratory measurement evolution
• Quality control and assessment
• Overview of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Requirements
• Scope
• Normative references
• Terms and definitions
• General requirements
• Structural requirements
• Resource requirements
• Personnel
• Facilities and environmental conditions
• Equipment
• Metrological traceability
• Externally provided products and services
• Process requirements
• Review of requests, tenders and contracts
• Selection, verification and validation of methods
• Sampling
• Handling of test or calibration items
• Technical records
• Evaluation of measurement uncertainty
• Ensuring the validity of results
• Reporting of results
• Complaints
• Nonconforming work
• Control of data and information management
• Management system requirements
• Management system documentation
• Control of management system documents
• Control of records
• Actions to address risks and opportunities
• Improvement
• Corrective actions

Internal audits reference to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 & ISO 19011 

• Principles of auditing
• Types of audits
• Why auditing for management system
• System audits reference to ISO 19011
• Competence person managing audit program 
• Roles and responsibilities of the person managing the audit program
• Management of Audit Programs
• Audit Planning and Preparation
• Performing the Audit
• Conducting open meeting 
• Establishing audit programme objectives
• Determining and evaluating audit programme risks and opportunities
• Establishing the audit programme
• Implementing audit programme
• ISO 17025:2017 Audit Checklist
• Conformity & Non-Conformity work  
• Reviewing and improving audit programme
• Generating audit findings 
• Determining audit conclusions 
• Conducting closing meeting 
• Preparing and distributing audit report  
• Management reviews

Application about ISO 17025 requirements

• Evaluation of analytical data
• Errors in Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
• Method development and validation
• Reputability, Reducibility and mean of replicate
• Detection Limit
• Practical exercises
• Rationale of uncertainty
• Sources of uncertainty
• Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation
• Measurement Uncertainty in chemical measurements
• Tiered approach for uncertainty analysis
• Methods for uncertainty characterization
• Control Chart
• Application for Data Evaluation
• Practical exercises for Inter-Laboratory Performance test
• F-test
• T-test
• Q-test
• Z-score
• Practical exercises for Uncertainty & Control Chart
• Calculation for Uncertainty
• Used Excel Function for Uncertainty
• Drawing Control Chart by Excel

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration