ISO 17025

General Requirements for the Competence of Testing & Calibration Labs

Our unique method can get you ready for ISO 17025 accreditation in as quick as 90 days with no compromises

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The ISO 17025 standard

ISO 17025 is based on ISO 9001 with a particular focus on testing and calibration bodies (of course).

Testing and calibration is a critical part of product development/product validation. Many of your customers need the assurance that their product meets the relevant standards and requirements before they report or launch. How can the customers make sure that the nominated laboratory provides accurate and repeatable results and quality outcomes? Well, all they need is to nominate an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory.

ISO 17025 was last updated in 2017 to align it with the 2015 version of ISO 9001 more closely.

In many cases in the USA, your customers are being forced by large conglomerates to work with competent ISO 17025 accredited laboratories only. Based on the previous experience with other standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 17025 accreditation will quickly become a ticket to work, and those without accreditation may start losing potential clients. If you have not been forced to comply, it may happen soon anyway. With the increasing number of laboratories having ISO 17025 accreditation, the importance of the standard is also elevating. As an outcome, ISO 17025 accreditation is becoming mandatory for testing and calibration laboratories.

As with ISO 9001, being forced to comply with ISO 17025 is not such a bad thing. There are many reasons why it would be a good idea to comply apart from not losing clients. Some of the benefits include:
  • Assurance that you are maintaining the industry standard
  • Increase in business
  • Having documented management procedures to ensure management and delivery consistency
  • Continual improvement of processes, quality, and effectiveness
  • Savings from reduction or elimination through better planning and communication
  • Increased confidence and recognition
  • Improved supplier performance
  • Enhanced revenue as well as employee commitment

Don’t hold back and wait for others to take your business while you wonder whether accreditation is for you! Our experts have a method to help you achieve accreditation in as little time as possible so that you are ready to take back those customers that you could be losing.

Why should you Choose Compliancehelp?

Well, you have learned a lot about the importance of ISO 17025. Now it is important to understand how to get ISO 17025 accredited. If you want to gain the accreditation with least hassle, you should consult with Compliancehelp. When it comes to the topmost ISO 17025 accreditation consultants, we are one of the leading ISO consultants.

At Compliancehelp, you will get-
  • A well-trained, skilled, and versatile team of ISO experts
  • Compliant documentation defining scope, policy and the interaction of business processes
  • Efficient handling of data to show conformance to the standard
  • Skillful handling of secondary processes required for supporting your core processes
  • Assurance that all relevant records are recognized developed, and implemented properly
  • A full system internal audit conducted by experienced ISO consultants
  • A Complete management review
How can Compliancehelp Help you?

The quality management system is the key to implementing the standard successfully. It begins with good documentation that reflects your business and operations, and the requirements of ISO 17025. When you hire Compliancehelp, our experts will start with discussions and interviews to learn the nature, functions, and operations of your laboratory. With this information, they will prepare an easy to understand quality management system that meets the requirements for ISO 17025 accreditation. Most importantly, our consultants prepare a quality management system that reflects your existing operations as much as possible.

Our consultant will determine whether the existing process meets the requirements specific to ISO 17025 or not. If your processes are not aligned with the requirements, our consultant will provide valuable suggestions for further improvement. With your consent, we will include these suggested processes into your quality management system.

What else do we provide help with?

We will assist you to collect and analyze your calibration or testing data to prepare an uncertainty budget. Afterward, based on the collected data, we will help you determine your measurement of uncertainty and provide you with a custom report. This report will give you an insight into the quality of your lab tests/calibrations.

We will review your testing or calibration report to determine whether everything is fine and compliant. There are a lot of requirements for these reports in ISO 17025, and we typically find that most of our customers have areas of deficiency.

Lastly, you need to pass a proficiency test conducted by an authorized third-party. Compliancehelp can provide guidance with finding a third-party where possible.

There is more, we also help you during the accreditation process if you need it. After accreditation, you may need further assistance, we can help you determine what assistance is needed if you want it. Normally our customers do not need any further consultant help, but we are here if you need it.   

Above all, you will get all of these quality ISO consultation services at an affordable cost. We can help you be accreditation ready within 60 days!

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