ISO/IEC 17025 Training: scope and application

Learning focus

Apply laboratory competence requirements to testing, calibration and result records.

Skills and exercises

• Testing and calibration scope
• Laboratory competence evidence
• Laboratory result review

Practical learning evidence

• Laboratory process mapping
• Personnel and equipment evidence review
• Sample test or calibration report review

Prepare for the training

Bring a laboratory scope and anonymised test or calibration records for the practical exercise.

Use an anonymised case to practise the following: laboratory result review.

Match training to the participant’s role

For ISO/IEC 17025 Training, define the learning objective, existing experience and the work participants must perform afterwards. Confirm prerequisites, programme scope and examples before choosing dates or delivery format.

Prepare practical learning evidence

Use relevant process documents, cases and exercises to connect the subject with work. Agree whether the programme includes an examination or another assessment and what completion actually demonstrates.

Clarify time, cost and the outcome

Participant numbers, delivery method and tailored exercises affect planning. State what attendance, completion or an assessment record means; taking a course alone does not establish organisational certification or independent auditor authority.