2. Main developments

2.1 Risks and opportunities

This point is covered in Chapter 8 - Management requirements.

One of the objectives of the revised ISO/CEI 17025 was to comply with the new requirements of the ISO 9001 Under the new standard, accredited calibration and testing laboratories will be required to operate a risk management system. The preventive action chapter of the previous standard has been removed, in favor of a risk/opportunity approach.

Such a system must enable the laboratory to detect and deal with risks that present a threat. Risks thus become opportunities to be taken advantage of, and of course...