Documentary traceability obligations and management

Laboratories wishing to implement a quality management system must draw up quality documentation to formalize their organization, describe their calibration and testing activities, demonstrate their competence and ensure traceability of results from instrument to certificate.

This quality documentation must follow rules to ensure document consistency, while complying with ISO/CEI 17025 and accreditation requirements.

The aims of this fact sheet are, on the one hand, to present the quality documentation practices that laboratories must implement in order to comply with the requirements of ISO/CEI 17025 and the rules of accreditation, and on the other hand, to give advice on how to ensure effective management of this documentation.