Laboratory Accreditation and Quality Management Systems Part 1: Management Concerns
Instructor:
Michael Brodsky
Product ID: 705298
- Duration: 90 Min
Why Should You Attend:
Accreditation to international standards is becoming the norm in the global analytical community. Although essentially voluntary, there are many jurisdictions that now require food and environmental laboratories to be accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 in order to participate in regulatory programs. Once accreditation has been achieved many laboratories have difficulty maintaining the QMS as evidenced by the number of non-conformances cited during the subsequent biannual audits. Why do you want to become accredited? Where do you start? For laboratories that are already accredited, how do you ensure staff adherence and ongoing compliance to minimize corrective actions arising from accreditation audits?
Many laboratories struggle with developing and implementing a functional quality management system that not only complies with the management and technical requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 but also meets their own needs and those of their customers. This is the 1st of two webinars on this topic and focuses on complying with the management requirements of the standard.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
- Management Components of a QMS
- Document Control
- Quality System
- Review of Requests, Tenders and Contracts
- Subcontracting of Tests and Calibrations
- Purchasing Services and Supplies
- Service to Customer
- Control of Non-conforming Testing and/or Calibration Work
- Control of Records
- Internal Audits
- Management Review
- Personnel
Who Will Benefit:
- Laboratory Managers
- QA Managers
- QC Analysts
- Analytical Support Personnel
- Laboratory Quality Management Staff
Michael Brodsky
Lead Auditor, Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation
Michael Brodsky has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 44 years. He is a Past President of the Ontario Food Protection Association (OFPA), the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) and AOAC International. He serves as Co-Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology; as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC Official Methods of Analysis; and the AOAC Research Institute. He is a reviewer for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology.
Michael is also a technical assessor in microbiology for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and a lead auditor/assessor for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA).
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