Auditing Your Laboratory To ISO/IEC 17025:2017

This course will introduce participants to ISO/IEC 19011, the guideline for auditing management systems as applied to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. The participant will learn about auditing principles and develop skills for performing higher-value internal audits.

The course includes hands-on exercises for planning, establishing, implementing, and maintaining an audit program, and also focuses on developing auditing methods, questioning techniques, and record-sampling techniques.

Course Objectives:

After successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

• Apply the guidance in ISO/IEC 19011 to construct an effective audit program and plan.
• Relate the benefits and drawbacks of various types of audit plans and methods.
• Evaluate sample audit findings and relate them to ISO/IEC 17025 requirements in order to plan additional investigation avenues.
• Review sample management system documents and records to determine conformity with requirements.
• Practice the interpersonal skills needed to effectively gather information.
• Assemble, present, and defend clear audit findings based on presented scenarios.