Why Choose ISO 17025 & Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for Analytical Laboratories Training Course?
This LIMS Training Course is meticulously designed for professionals in analytical laboratories who aim to elevate operational quality, ensure technical competence, and maintain regulatory compliance. Focused on ISO 17025 implementation, the course covers essential management and technical requirements for achieving accredited laboratory operations. By integrating a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), this course demonstrates how laboratories can improve traceability, data integrity, and process efficiency across the entire testing lifecycle.
Participants will also explore the crucial interrelationship between ISO 17025, ISO 9001, and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). The course emphasizes the importance of LIMS in streamlining documentation, controlling test data, and driving overall laboratory performance. Whether your laboratory is seeking ISO 17025 accreditation or upgrading its digital systems, this training will equip you with the necessary knowledge to develop and implement effective quality systems.
With practical insights on applying LIMS in line with ISO 17025 requirements, this course focuses on how LIMS aids in fulfilling audit readiness, ensuring traceability, and supporting continuous improvement efforts. Enhance your laboratory's quality standards, regulatory compliance, and overall performance by attending this comprehensive LIMS Course.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this LIMS Training Course, participants will be able to:
- Apply Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) principles within laboratory settings.
- Ensure the accuracy and quality of test and calibration results.
- Implement comprehensive traceability from sample receipt to final reporting using LIMS.
- Align LIMS architecture with ISO 17025 requirements to meet regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Continuously evaluate and improve LIMS systems based on evolving market and regulatory demands.
Who is this Training Course for?
This LIMS Course is ideal for:
- Laboratory Management and technical staff in analytical labs within sectors like oil, food, water treatment, utilities, and commercial testing.
- Laboratory Technicians, Analysts, and specialists seeking to deepen their understanding of ISO 17025 and LIMS integration.
- Laboratory professionals pursuing ISO 17025 accreditation or preparing to implement a LIMS.
- Recently hired scientific staff looking to build expertise in quality-driven laboratory operations.
- Consultants supporting laboratory accreditation or digital transformation projects.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
The ISO 17025 & LIMS Training Course combines expert instruction, interactive learning, and practical exercises. Given the technical nature of the content, the course integrates ISO 17025 requirements with LIMS implementation strategies, blending theory with hands-on applications.
Through case studies, group discussions, and scenario-based exercises, participants will learn to apply the course material to real-world situations. Mentoring and group feedback will reinforce knowledge retention, while practical simulations ensure participants can confidently apply their skills in the workplace.
- Interactive Learning: Engage with case studies and discussions.
- Applied Practice: Work through role-based exercises to consolidate knowledge.
- Group Feedback: Receive mentoring and peer feedback throughout the course.
The Course Content
- ISO 17025 contents
- Organization – Responsibilities
- Introduction to control of documents & records – Use of LIMS for managing records
- Requests for tenders
- Suppliers/Subcontractors – Detailed record keeping through LIMS
- LIMS design – Basic considerations
- Service to the customer - Complaints
- Control of non-conforming work/testing
- Corrective/Preventive actions – Implementation & Monitoring of corrective actions
- Control of records
- Internal auditing as a tool for addressing complaints & implementing a proactive strategy
- Management review
- Technical records – LIMS as a unique traceability tool
- Personnel (scientific, technical, administrative)
- Accommodation & Environmental conditions
- Test methods & Method validation. Estimation of uncertainty of measurement
- Selection of methods – Laboratory-developed methods, Non-standard methods
- Control of data for all of above topics – Use of LIMS as a data recording tool
- Measurement traceability through LIMS
- Equipment – Measurement traceability, Reference standards & Reference materials
- Sampling – Handling of test items & The role of LIMS as the first link in the sample traceability chain (from sample login to issue of Test Certificate)
- In-house testing & subcontracted analysis. Issuing of relevant working forms using the LIMS
- Quality Assurance (QA) of test results & Ways of reporting the test results – The LIMS contribution to assuring traceability of QA and Analytical data
- Format of Test Certificates & Amendments of Test Certificates – Use of LIMS for issuing Test Certificates and keeping track of changes
- Opinions & Interpretations (O&I’s) on Test Certificates
- Electronic transmission of results – LIMS contribution to assist in speedy, targeted and foolproof delivery of results
- Preparation & Application for accreditation
- Role playing – Internal/External audits exercise
Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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