#Iso 17025 2017 lab set up requirements iso#
To be impartial to the laboratory’s activities is being free to exercise your professional judgment and competency as per the actual data results that you have gathered using the established procedures.Īfter the new revision of ISO 17025 has been released, impartiality has become one of the major requirements to be implemented or even integrated into all laboratory activities. This can be achieved through the implementation of Impartiality, integrated into our laboratory activities and to be part of our work ethic. One reason to have honesty and integrity to laboratory results is to have an unbiased, and of course, accurate results. Understanding Impartiality and ISO 17025:2017 Impartiality Requirements I hope that this will be a useful guide for you to understand and start to implement within your lab. This may not apply in your laboratory so proper care or review must be implemented. These are the things that I have listed and implemented based on my understanding and design of the lab that I am in.this implementation is also new to me and therefore there is still more room for improvement. The implementation that I will present here is not yet perfect. monitoring of risk to impartiality – maintaining impartiality.Addressing Risk – Eliminate and mitigate risk to impartiality.Analysis and evaluation of Risk to impartiality- risk assessment.Identification and monitoring of risk to impartiality.Impartiality implementation procedure (in 4 steps).The risk to Impartiality related clause and requirements.Understanding Impartiality (terms and definitions).Impartiality requirements as per ISO 17025:2017.How can I manage risk to impartiality implementation?īut luckily, after a good conversation with my assessor (which I am very grateful by the way he delivers his assessment), I finally understood what is missing in my own way of understanding this process.Īnd in this post, I will present with you the following: How can I execute the Identification of risks to impartiality on an on-going basis?ģ. Once Identified, How can I perform evaluation or analysis?ģ. When I was reading the standard, it seems that impartiality is easy to understand and implement, but once it is needed to be documented for a procedure, the challenge is now presenting itself.ġ.How can I identify the Risks to impartiality?Ģ. One more thing that overwhelmed me is the statement, “Ongoing basis”. When I started to create my process or procedure, I was stuck on what next to be done. More so when I read the term “ Risk Assessment“ for the identified Risk to Impartiality. Just like many others, before I started to understand and create my own procedure, I have a hard time understanding the requirements of the standard.Įven though this subject about impartiality is not new (yes it is), which is already in the old version, Still, once it was presented in the new version with a separate clause, it was like it is my first time being exposed to it. There is also a question like, “Is it Mandatory to have a procedure for impartiality?” Since the transition from the 2005 version to the 2017 version has started, I have received a number of comments regarding the ISO 17025 Impartiality procedure.