Iso 17025
This can be an outside activity or within the company activity.īelow are some situations where Conflict of Interest could arise: When we say ‘conflict of interest’, these are the ‘personal interest’ that tends to conflict with our responsibilities and decision making in relation to the laboratory activities.
I want to explain more about ‘Conflict of Interest’ because this term is confusing in some way.
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As per ISO 17025, clause 3.1 Impartiality means: To start understanding Impartiality, I have included its definition from the standard. This is not a single person’s responsibility.īut like any other activity, by following a certain procedure or a system makes it more interesting and easy to implement (as it applies to me as per the system that I will share below. It is not a new requirement, but this time, it has now a new clause with a clear and direct requirement for its implementation (see the clause below).īut being impartial to laboratory activities needs awareness in order to be understood and implemented smoothly. This means it is a mandatory process that must be implemented.
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To be impartial to the laboratory’s activities is being free to exercise your professional judgment and competency as per the actual data results that you have gathered using the established procedures.Īfter the new revision of ISO 17025 has been released, impartiality has become one of the major requirements to be implemented or even integrated into all laboratory activities. This can be achieved through the implementation of Impartiality, integrated into our laboratory activities and to be part of our work ethic. One reason to have honesty and integrity to laboratory results is to have an unbiased, and of course, accurate results. Understanding Impartiality and ISO 17025:2017 Impartiality Requirements I hope that this will be a useful guide for you to understand and start to implement within your lab. This may not apply in your laboratory so proper care or review must be implemented. These are the things that I have listed and implemented based on my understanding and design of the lab that I am in.this implementation is also new to me and therefore there is still more room for improvement. The implementation that I will present here is not yet perfect. monitoring of risk to impartiality – maintaining impartiality.Addressing Risk – Eliminate and mitigate risk to impartiality.Analysis and evaluation of Risk to impartiality- risk assessment.Identification and monitoring of risk to impartiality.Impartiality implementation procedure (in 4 steps).The risk to Impartiality related clause and requirements.Understanding Impartiality (terms and definitions).
Since the transition from the 2005 version to the 2017 version has started, I have received a number of comments regarding the ISO 17025 Impartiality procedure.