Importance of ISO 17025 in Testing For the first time, emphasizing the analysis of risk and increasing attention to the staff's professional skills employed in testing/calibration activities to guarantee transparency and impartiality for the customer. Accreditation lasts three years, during which the laboratory will be subjected to periodic annual checks. The number of tests to be accredited requested in the first instance can increase by requesting an extension from Accredia during the periodic reviews. The points of the standard can be divided into the following macro-categories:
Resource Requirements: In this chapter, you need to define the competency requirements of the staff.
Structural requirements: to comply with the provisions of this chapter, the laboratory must identify the management that has overall responsibility for the laboratory; define and document the test, calibration, or sampling activities that you want to accredit, and declare compliance with the ISO 17025 standard. General Requirements: this chapter describes the requirements that the laboratory adopts to ensure impartiality and confidentiality Process Requirements: for this chapter, the laboratory must equip itself with procedures for reviewing requests, offers, and contracts; method selection, verification, and validation; sampling; handling of the objects.