ISO 17025 Accreditation

Scope of Accreditation

The scope of accreditation applies to the laser/electrical calibration of nearly all the company’s catalog pyroelectric laser energy sensors, thermopile laser power sensors and meter electronics. within the ANAB website at http://anab.org/accredited-organizations

ISO 17025 governs a laboratory’s quality management system, such as auditing and corrective action processes, and requires adherence to rigorous technical requirements.

Technical Requirements

In terms of technical requirements, ISO/IEC 17025 ensures that a company:

• maintains testing facilities and equipment to specified standards
• ensures protocols are fully documented
• trains workers to an appropriate level of competence
• confirms validity and appropriateness of methods, especially so-called “non-standard” methods such as those used to calibrate laser measurement equipment, which have been developed internally
• uses accepted mathematical methods for calculating results
• verifies that purchased test equipment meets proper requirements and that all equipment used to produce accredited calibrations has itself received ISO 17025 accredited calibrations
• has a traceable path of calibration to independently maintained national or international standards
• provides both as received and outgoing testing data to customers in an approved format
• ensures the calibration certificate meets the requirements of the standard
The outcome of all these efforts is that customers can have confidence that a laboratory achieves verifiably correct results and that these results will be reported in an unambiguous manner.