What Are the IAF Mandatory Documents 1, 5 and 11?
Who Is IAF? The International Accreditation Forum, or IAF, is a worldwide association of accreditation bodies and other bodies interested in conformity assessment. IAF and…
Overview of ISO/IEC 17011
ISO/IEC 17011 is an international standard that specifies the requirements for competence, consistent operation, and impartiality of accreditation bodies assessing and accrediting conformity assessment bodies….
ANAB’s Private Training Process
ANAB offers private training to clients in management systems, laboratories, credentialing, inspection bodies, and more. Organizations seek out private training for many reasons: Which ANAB…
Fundamentals of Internal Auditing
Internal audits are required by many ISO certification and accreditation standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025. This stresses the importance of a vast…
Cause Analysis and Corrective Action
Accredited and certified organizations are required to identify and evaluate nonconformities to eliminate the nonconformity and ensure it does not recur or occur elsewhere in…
Remote Assessments for Laboratories
What Is a Remote Assessment? ISO/IEC 17011:2017 defines remote assessment as an assessment of the physical location or virtual site of a conformity assessment body…
Electronic Records Management
Organizations retain records related to day-to-day operations that are critical to the success of the business. It is imperative that organizations have robust record control…
What Is AR 3125?
The Accreditation Requirements for Forensic Testing and Calibration, AR 3125, supplements ISO/IEC 17025:2017 with applicable requirements from the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) policies. Additionally,…
IQ/OQ/PQ in Equipment Verification and Validation
Ensuring laboratory equipment operates as expected is critically important to the validity of results generated by the laboratory. As part of process validation through IQ/OQ/PQ,…