Overview

The Division of Quality Assurance of the Pancyprian Union of Chemists (PUC), in cooperation with Eurachem, organised this two-day training course on the accreditation of laboratories in February 2019. After a series of training activities on ISO/IEC 17025:2017, it was considered that some of its critical issues should be analysed in more detail, providing the opportunity for interaction with laboratory personnel. It was also realised that some of the issues were not new but had already been addressed in the latest version of ISO 15189, the accreditation standard for medical laboratories. This was the initiative for this two-day training programme.

The scope of the training was to

• clarify new provisions of the standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017
• analyse some of the critical issues introduced in/with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in comparison with similar requirements of ISO 15189; this includes risk based thinking, decision rule, uncertainty from sampling, ensuring quality (reference materials, PT), measurement traceability
• present other recent developments e.g. ISO 17034, EEE-PT documents and relevant Eurachem guides
• underline what is new for laboratories and accreditation bodies
• discuss on the experience of laboratories in various sectors, problems and solutions
• discuss how laboratories can proceed efficiently to address the new needs.

Programme and details

• Course details, speaker information and location
• Programme

Presentations

Day 1 – Friday 21 February 2019

• Welcome addresses:
  • Despina Charalambous (PUC-Division of QA)
  • Leontios Philotheou (Chair PUC)
  • Introduction to Eurachem
    Marina Patriarca (Chair Eurachem)
• Introduction – Scope and expectations of the training
  Kyriacos Tsimillis
• The new standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 - A comparison with ISO 15189:2012 - an overview - Some critical issues
  Kyriacos Tsimillis - Despina Charalambous
• Uncertainty from sampling
  Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, Univ. Lisboa
  
• The use of reference materials in demonstrating metrological traceability – Reference to ISO 17034
  Marina Patriarca, ISS, Italy
• Risks and opportunities in ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 15189:2012
  Kyriacos Tsimillis
• Interlaboratory comparisons – Proficiency testing schemes – Reference to ISO/IEC 17043
  Brian Brookman
• Interlaboratory comparisons – Proficiency testing schemes: Laboratory experience, problems and solutions
  (coordinated by Brian Brookman)
  • PT schemes by Profilab-Belarus
    Sviatlana Miranovich-Kachur, Profilab
  • PT for the construction industry
    M Tapakis, D Zakou, PWD Cyprus
  • PT for medical laboratories
    Yumna Shehadah, Al Quds University
• Data and information management
  Kyriacos Tsimillis

Day 2 – Friday 22 February 2019

• The use of reference materials in internal quality control
  Marina Patriarca, ISS, Italy
  
• Reference materials - Laboratories present their experience, problems and solutions
  (coordinated by Marina Patriarca)
  • Reference Material issues in the construction industry
    M Tapakis, D Zakou, PWD Cyprus
  • Reference Materials challenges and experience
    M Shkeir, RBML Food Laboratory
  • Accreditation Experiences at Mpn UNILAB
    Pavlina Lena, mpn UNILAB Ltd
• The use of a decision rule
  Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva
• New publications on proficiency testing
  Brian Brookman, LGC 
• Target uncertainty
  Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, UNiv. Lisboa
• Concluding remarks and Close

Details

Category: Completed events

Last Updated: Sunday, 10 November 2019 18:15

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