PECB ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor case studies
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The PECB Certified ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor credential is aimed at people who plan and lead accreditation assessments of testing and calibration laboratories. PECB positions the course for individuals seeking to perform and lead accreditation assessments, managers or consultants who want to master an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment, laboratory technicians responsible for maintaining conformance, and technical experts preparing for a testing, sampling and/or calibration laboratory accreditation assessment. The PECB ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor case studies are 5 cases and about 4,947 words.
1NovaTrace Analytical: impartiality threats created by a group acquisition and a director's shareholding
NovaTrace Analytical is an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited laboratory testing soils, groundwater and leachates for a national environmental regulator and for private developers. Its parent group has just acquired GreenPath, an environmental consultancy that designs remediation plans and now frequently names NovaTrace as the approved testing laboratory in its tender documents.
988 words, about 5 min2Biolab: an assessor with a prior training role and a major finding built on three records
An accreditation body is conducting a surveillance assessment of Biolab, a medical laboratory performing haematology, clinical chemistry and microbiology. The lead assessor has one and a half days on site with one technical assessor, Marco, who six months earlier delivered a two-day paid training course on ISO/IEC 17025:2017 to Biolab's quality team; the course included a gap analysis of Biolab's draft documentation.
994 words, about 5 min3AlloyTest: preparing an extension to OES chemistry and a satellite hardness site
AlloyTest is accredited for tensile, impact and hardness testing of metallic materials at a single laboratory. It applies to extend its scope to chemical composition analysis of steels and aluminium alloys by optical emission spectrometry (OES) and to add a satellite site 200 km away where hardness testing will be performed on large castings that cannot be transported.
1,004 words, about 5 min4Food microbiology laboratory: selective repeat testing, an out-of-calibration balance and an action plan that only corrects
During a scheduled assessment of a food microbiology laboratory, the assessor observes an analyst repeating a total viable count on the same sample three times and entering only the lowest result in the laboratory information system. The analyst says this is normal practice when a count looks high and that the supervisor knows.
968 words, about 5 min5Northvale Laboratories: a low-yield internal audit programme that never reaches the risky processes
Northvale Laboratories has 45 staff across three sites and is accredited for chemical, microbiological, materials and calibration testing, issuing about 2,500 reports a year. Its internal audit programme consists of one audit of the whole management system each November, performed by the quality officer and a trained chemist using a 200-item clause checklist over two days, always in the same four work areas and always announced.
993 words, about 5 min