ISO/IEC 17025-2005 and Laboratory Accreditation at Boston

Overview:

QMS is the catch phrase for accreditation and is the backbone of ISO/IEC Standard 17025:2005. The Quality System Manual (QSM) is the bible in a QMS environment because, much like its predecessor, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), it contains the policies that the laboratory is expected to follow to achieve quality results. It is in fact only the "what to do" component of a QMS. What is also needed are the "how to do it" or procedures and methods and finally the controls or evidence that it was done properly.

Why should you attend?

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 needs. 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?

Who Will Benefit:

·         Laboratory Management/Supervision

·         Laboratory Quality Development

·         Laboratory Quality Management

·         Laboratory Quality Control

·         Analytical Support

Agenda:

Day One:

Lecture 1: Defining a Quality Management System (QMS) 
Lecture 2: Management Components of a QMS

·         Organization

·         Quality System

·         Document Control

·         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

·         Internal Audits

·         Management Review

Day Two:

Lecture 1: Technical Components of a QMS

·         Personnel

·         Accommodation and Environmental Conditions

·         Test and Calibration Methods and Method Validation

·         Equipment

·         Measurement Traceability

·         Sampling

·         Handling of Test and Calibration Items

·         Assuring the Quality of Test and Calibration Results

·         Reporting the Results

·         Technical Records

Speaker:

Michael Brodsky

President, Brodsky Consultants 
Michael Brodsky has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 41 years. He is a Past President of the Ontario Food Protection Association and AOAC International. He serves as Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC OMA and the AOAC Research Institute, as a reviewer for Standard Method for the Examination of Water and as a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He is also a lead auditor/assessor in microbiology for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Location: Boston, MA        Date: August 27th & 28th, 2015        Time: 9 AM to 6 PM 
Venue: Courtyard Boston Logan Airport

Venue Address: 225 William F. McClellan Highway - Boston, Massachusetts 02128 USA

Price: $1,295.00 (Seminar for One Delegate)

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