ISO 17025 Intro

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About NABL

• Full Form:
National Accreditation Board For Testing And Calibration
Laboratories
• It is an autonomous body under the aegis Quality Council of
India and is registered under the societies Act.
• Objective : To provide Government, Industry Associations and
Industry in general with a scheme of third party assessment of
the quality and technical competence of testing and
calibration laboratories.
• GOI has authorised NABL as the sole accreditation body for
testing and calibration laboratories.

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Abbreviations
• ISO: International Organisation for Standardization
• IEC : International electrochemical Commission
• NABL : National Accreditation Board For Testing And Calibration Laboratories
• APLAC: Asia Pacific Laboratories Accreditation Co-operation
• ILAC : International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation
• MRA : Mutual Recognition Arrrangment
• NPL : National Physical Laboratories
• DST : Deptt. of Science & Technology
• QCI: Quality Council of India
• BIS: Bureau of Indian standard.
• BARC : Bhabha Atomic Research center

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International Linkage
• NABL is full time member of APLAC & ILAC
• NABL is signatory to ILAC as well as APLAC
Mutual Rrecognition Arrangement(MRA)
• Such international arrangement facilitate
acceptance of test & calibration results
between countries to which MRA partners
represents.

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Benefits of Accreditation
• Increase of confidence in testing /Calibrartion data
and of personnel performing work.
• Better control of laboratory operations and feedback
to laboratories as to wheather they have sound
Quality Assurance System and are technically
competent.
• Enhanced confidence and satisfaction
• Saving in terms of time & money due to reduction or
elimination of the need for retesting of product.
• International recognition as names comes on NABL
website.

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Requirements of ISO 17025: 2005
• Legal entity
• Defined organisation chart & responsibilities
• Quality Policy
• Quality Manual/SOP/WI
• Document Control/Record Control SOP
• Review of request system
• Complaint/Purchasing services/Control of non conforming
testing/Corrective actions/Preventive Actions/Intenal Quality
Audits/Management Reviews systems
• Technical requirements: General/Personnel/Environment conditions/Test
and calibration methods/method validations/Equipment/Measurement
traceability/Testing/Sampling/Handling of test and calibration
methods/Test reports/calibration certificates

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Accreditation procedure
• Prepration of Quality Manual
• Filing of application to NABL along with Quality Manual
• Acknowledgement & scrutiny of application (By NABL Secretariat)
• Corrective actions on Non conformance raised
• Adequacy of Quality Manual
• Corrective actions on Non conformance raised
• Pre-assessment of Labs
• Corrective actions on Non conformance raised
• Final Assessment of Labs
• Corrective actions on Non conformance raised
• Scrutiny of assessment report
• Recommendation for Accreditation(By Accreditation Committee)
• Approval for Accreditation(By Chairman)
• Issue of Certificate(By NABL Secretariat)
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