ISO 17025 Consulting
The ISO 17025 Standard
Applying directly to those organizations that produce testing and calibration results, the ISO 17025 standard adds the directive of competence to the 2000 version of ISO 9000 for laboratories. This competence comprises the requirements for measurement traceability and the controlling of sampling. Whether you are running quality assurance for radioactivity measurement in nuclear medicine, or chemical analysis for environmental products, the capacity for you to demonstrate a working, compliant quality management system for these new requirements is becoming a necessity. Customers in your industry are asking for quality assurances, and competitors are producing cutting-edge results in their laboratories. What changes will be needed in your laboratory to comply with the ISO 17025 standard? What state of readiness is your laboratory in prior to checking the quality management system, conducting an internal audit, or having an accreditation body perform the external audit? What if you don’t have an in-house lab capable of calibrating certain equipment? Is self-compliance without actually certification an option, or are there negative consequences to that?
Cavendish Scott and ISO 17025 Consulting
With over 25 years of laboratory evaluation experience behind our consultants, Cavendish Scott provides a full range of customized consulting services to meet the needs of your ISO 17025 accreditation goals. Our consultants are passionate about the ISO standard, are registered ISO 17025 auditors, and offer comprehensive training in the standard.
Our Specialties:
- Orienting and optimizing your already-existing documentation
- Evaluating your laboratory’s scope of capability
- Precise interpretation of the ISO 17025 standard
- Optimizing measurement uncertainties
- Qualifying and training your personnel for internal audits
- Emphasis on relevant, continual improvement to your business as ISO 17025 is implemented
The Difference With Cavendish Scott
We believe that an ISO management system can provide tremendous benefits to an organization, increasing performance and reducing fire-fighting. Respecting the domain and responsibility of your top management, we bring ISO 17025 consulting services that implement the standard without bringing unwanted change. Introducing things in a simple and transferrable way, we ensure your ISO system is conducive to improvements and help implement them where agreed.
ISO 17025 accreditation is a mission-critical investment to any laboratory looking to meet the increasing demands of customers and duplicate the results and performance of of cutting-edge competitors. Bringing in an ISO 17025 consultant can drastically cut down on the time and human resource drain required to adequately prepare for accreditation. Contact Cavendish Scott today.
Need ISO 17025 Consulting?
Cavendish Scott is a full-service ISO management system consulting, auditing and training organization with decades of experience in international management system standards. Whether you need a quick and simple ISO certificate, cost effective internal auditing or a complicated process improvement program – we are right for your project. We’re right for you.
Contact us todayWhat Our Clients Are Saying:
“I wanted to let you know that Cavendish Scott had a realistic and common sense approach that seems to be sorely lacking in the industry. You guys really did a great job on our ISO project and completed the whole thing in 30 days! Thanks!”
— John D, International trading organization
“You guys did a great job! The quality manual and procedures were flawless. This was our smoothest audit to date.”
—Brandon C, VP Operations.
Precision machining organization, Colorado
“The long awaited audit is next Monday – Thursday. I have finally gotten all the new procedures and manual read and touched up (nothing substantive so no worries!). When you were here they were reading like Mandarin and today I find they are crisp, clear and on point. You did a good job..”(Continue Reading)
— Director, Nuclear Services and Products Organization
Alternatives to Traditional Consulting
Traditional consulting is not the only way to reach your goal of registration. Using technology to overcome project difficulties is key to addressing issues such as remote locations, multiple locations, staff who travel frequently, scheduling difficulties, the need for greater control, and of course, limited budgets.
We take advantage of email, teleconferencing, on-line meetings, shared work spaces and digital photographs to replace consulting visits and to synchronize activities in multiple locations. Substantial work can be completed using email and telephone conversations. Although these are no alternative to an actual visit, costs can be curtailed substantially if you are prepared to work within the limitations that exist with these tools – and frankly the limitations are minimal.
Where you have multiple locations, we are often able to substantially minimize internal audit costs by performing remote electronic audits. The ISO accreditation agencies currently restrict the use of remote electronic auditing for registration purposes. However, this is a legitimate approach for consulting and internal auditing, although it is not possible in all situations. It is more appropriate to office type activities (usually computer based) and in situations where all records are stored electronically — and can thus be shared and audited over the internet.
We work with you to identify appropriate tools to make your project go smoothly and easily.
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