Requirements for ISO/IEC 17025:2017

General Requirements (Clause 4)
Laboratory plan and implementation actions about risk and opportunities. Eliminate or minimize the risk related to impartiality, on an on-going basis.

The confidentially requirement is also extended to laboratory personnel, including any committee members, contractors, personnel of external bodies or individual acting on the laboratory behalf.

Structural requirements (Clause 5)
This includes Legal status of the laboratory, organization and

The structure of Management, identification of management, range of laboratory activities, documenting its procedures, availability of personnel responsible for the implementation and maintaining the integrity of the management system.

Resource requirements (Clause 6)
Resources required for the activity shall be gathered in addition to what is naturally available just in case. This may include people, facilities, equipment, systems and even supplementary services. It’s expected that everyone will act fairly in order to do their best work.

Transport, storage, use and planned maintenance of equipment must be in well-defined procedure. It’s expected that the equipment used for measurement should achieve its required measurement accuracy.

Process requirements (Clause 7)
Review of requests, tenders and contracts
Selection, verification and validation of methods
Sampling
Handling of test or calibration items
Technical records
Evaluation of measurement uncertainty
Assuring the validity of results
Reporting of results
Complaints
Nonconforming work
Control of data – Information management

Management System requirements (Clause 8)
Laboratories to establish and maintain a management system as per the requirements of ISO 9001.