ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor
Why Should You Attend?
The ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor training enables you to effectively lead a laboratory towards the ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation by enhancing your understanding of the laboratory’s quality, administrative and technical operations. This training course will equip you with the necessary skills and expertise to plan and lead an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment.
Based on practical exercises, you will be able to master the assessment techniques and become competent to assess the compliance of laboratories with ISO/IEC 17025 requirements.
After mastering the necessary concepts related to the requirements of this standard, you can sit for the exam and apply for a “PECB Certified ISO/IEC 17025 Lead Assessor” credential. By holding a PECB Lead Assessor Certificate, you will demonstrate that you have the capabilities to assess the competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories to provide reliable results based on best practices.
Who Should Attend?
- Individuals seeking to perform and lead an accreditation assessment of testing and calibration laboratories
- Managers or consultants seeking to master an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment
- Laboratory technicians responsible for maintaining conformance to ISO/IEC 17025 requirements
- Technical experts seeking to prepare for a testing, sampling and/or calibration laboratory accreditation assessment
Learning Objective
Upon successfully completing the training course, participants will be able to:
- Learn how to interpret the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025
- Understand the operations of testing and calibration laboratories based on ISO/IEC 17025
- Acknowledge the correlation between ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9001 and other standards and regulatory frameworks
- Understand the assessor’s role in planning, leading, and following-up on assessments and accreditation
Educational Approach
This training course is participant centered and:
- This training is based on both theory and best practices used in the accreditation assessment of testing and calibration laboratories
- Lecture sessions are illustrated with practical questions and examples
- Practice tests are similar to the Final Exam
Prerequisites
A fundamental understanding of ISO/IEC 17025 and comprehensive knowledge of assessment principles and techniques.
Course Agenda
Day 1 Introduction to Laboratory Management Systems (LMS) and ISO/IEC 17025
- Course objectives and structure
- Standards and regulatory frameworks
- Accreditation process
- Fundamental concepts of ISO/IEC 17025
- Laboratory Management System (LMS)
Day 2 Principles, preparation and launching of an assessment
- Assessment concepts and principles
- Assessment approach based on evidence and risk
- Initiating the assessment
- Stage 1 assessment
- Preparing the stage 2 assessment (on-site assessment)
Day 3 On-site assessment activities
- Stage 2 assessment
- Communication during the assessment
- Assessment procedures
- Creating test plans
- Drafting assessment findings and nonconformity reports
Day 4 Closing the assessment
- Assessment documentation and quality assurance
- Closing the assessment
- Evaluation of action plans by the assessor
- Following the initial assessment
- Managing an internal audit programme
- Competence and evaluation of assessors
- Closing the training
Day 5 Certification Exam
General Information
Certification and examination fees are included in the price of the training course
Training material containing over 450 pages of information and practical examples will be distributed
An attestation of course completion worth 31 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) credits will be issued to the participants who have attended the training course.
In case of exam failure, you can retake the exam within 12 months free of charge
