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STANDARDS IN FOCUS…GNBS – THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LABORATORY TEST RESULTS

Apr 09, 2017 News

When selecting a laboratory to fulfil your testing, calibration or measurement needs, you must be sure it can supply you with accurate and reliable results. Herein lies the need for GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration of laboratories and what contributes to a laboratory being technically competent to do your testing.
Confidence in products and services on the globalizing trade scene is getting increasingly hard to create. Both private-sector organizations, be it manufacturers, suppliers, importers/exporters or customers, and government authorities are looking to reliable laboratories to meet testing requirements. The first and most important step in setting a laboratory apart from its competition is using GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025.
Regardless of the arena a laboratory works in, GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025 aims to improve the ability to consistently produce valid results. The standard can help create the conditions, as well as satisfy the technical demands that companies need to have confidence. But there is still a gap between reality and desirability, and what enables test results to achieve this confidence.
There are steps needed to be taken to build a climate of confidence. Consumers, users, the public sector and manufacturers must have confidence that laboratory test results are free of any doubt, can be repeated anywhere in the world with the same results, and are performed competently under no bias.
This standard aims to help laboratories in any organization or sector, generate trustworthy results. Test results obtained from a laboratory operating in the conformance to GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025 provide the company with increased confidence in its technical capabilities and staff, and, ultimately, in the quality of its products. GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025 hinges on eight key elements that enable laboratory owners and managers to operate their organization in a reliable manner.
Access to the right technical and human resources is essential if laboratory equipment is to perform and produce valid results. Results produced must be based on measurable or derived quantities. Impartiality in all testing and measuring activities is therefore key, and a laboratory and its management must not be influenced by commercial, financial or other pressures that could compromise this impartiality.
Customer information and proprietary rights, including the electronic storage and transmission of results, must be protected. By using standards and validated methods, work carried out must be based on methods that meet customer needs and suit laboratory activities, thus enhancing the trust in test results and increase the repeatability of testing.
Under safety requirements, a lab is obligated to implement basic safety policies and procedures to ensure that its environment is safe for all.
Excerpt ISOfocus August 2016.
For further information on this subject or to purchase a copy of GYS 223:2005 ISO/IEC 17025 call the GNBS on Telephone number: 219-0065 or 219-0069 or visit the Bureau’s website: www.gnbsgy.org

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