Laboratory Excellence and Accreditation

Laboratory Equipment Calibration and Preventive Maintenance

A laboratory result is only as defensible as the instrument that produced it, and an auditor asking for calibration evidence will find either a traceable chain or a certificate nobody understands. This course builds the chain. Delegates work through metrological traceability and what makes a reference standard acceptable, calibration intervals and setting them from drift history rather than habit, and measurement uncertainty in terms a laboratory can actually calculate. Balances, pipettes, thermometers, pH meters and volumetric glassware are covered individually, since each fails in its own way. In house versus external calibration is addressed, including what a laboratory may legitimately do itself. Preventive maintenance schedules and the tasks that prevent failures rather than merely record them follow. Out of specification results and the recall question they raise are covered. The course closes on records and on preparing for an accreditation assessment.