So you want to get NATA accreditation for your laboratory, but you’re stuck on where to get started? It seems like an arduous process and you want to know you are going about it in the right way, and not wasting time. Perhaps you’ve contacted NATA and they referred you to a bewildering array of… read more »
ISO 17025.
Succeeding in laboratory quality management
We see that many laboratory quality managers inadvertently waste time due to misinformation and misunderstandings about NATA requirements. They may do too much, creating unnecessary or inefficient processes in an effort to please the NATA assessor. Or they may do too little in the areas that really matter – the things that will actually affect… read more »
From busy to business-mastery
Why all lab managers should fully embrace the process approach outlined in ISO17025, ISO9001 and ISO15189 No email-free holiday in years? Scared to take a day off? Alarm bells should be ringing. It may be the last thing you want to hear, but if you are overworked, always too busy or want bigger things for… read more »
Reporting Compliance in ISO 17025
Do you report results as pass or fail on test reports? As normal, high or low? Within spec, outside spec, complying or not complying? Would your clients like you to report with a statement of conformity? Then you need to know about decision rules in the new ISO 17025. While you have utmost confidence in… read more »