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Quality has become an essential requirement for all the businesses across the globe. ISO 17025 accreditation assures that calibration laboratories compliant with this standard are providing good services and they are maintaining consistency in their services. Well, since the standard ensures the accuracy of calibration tests and reports, the certification process is a bit complex. In this blog, we will discuss eleven steps which an organization must undertake for gaining ISO 17025 accreditation . 11 Steps to ISO 17025 Certification 1. File Application It’s a wise decision to develop a relationship with a certification body in an early stage of implementing your calibration testing management system. In this way, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the practices of the certification body. Provide your certification body with important information about you, such as: • What is your expected time frame for the certification? • What is the scope of you

Everyone knows that ISO 17025 is an international standard for testing and calibration laboratories. This standard specifies certain requirements for the calibrating laboratories so that they can demonstrate the efficiency of their Quality Management System of QMS. This standard also helps the laboratories to demonstrate their technical competence to do the work they are expected to do. ISO 17025 standard is made of five clauses, such as: 1. Scope 2. Normative References 3. Terms and Definitions 4. Management Requirements 5. Technical Requirements Recently, this standard has gone through a revision. Here, we are going to discuss the checklist that an organization needs to consider while thinking about ISO 17025 accreditation . Among the five clauses, clause four and five are of importance. We will discuss these two clauses in details while a brief account of each of the rest three clauses will be given. I. Scope Scope should contain a clear description of