Laboratory Excellence and AccreditationRisk Management for Laboratories
ISO/IEC 17025 requires a laboratory to address risks and opportunities without prescribing how, and the result is often a register produced once for an assessor and never opened again. This course covers doing it usefully. Delegates identify risks to impartiality, to the validity of results and to continuity of operations, assess them proportionately, and design controls that change what happens rather than what is recorded. Impartiality and confidentiality receive specific treatment, since they are the risks the standard singles out. The course closes on integrating risk thinking into method changes, staff changes and equipment decisions, which is where it earns its place.
Course objectives
- Identify risks to impartiality, validity of results and continuity
- Assess risk proportionately without manufacturing false precision
- Design controls that change what happens rather than what is recorded
- Address impartiality and confidentiality specifically
- Integrate risk thinking into method, staff and equipment decisions
- Evidence the approach for an assessor without writing for the assessor
- Review the register so it stays current
Who should attend
- Laboratory quality managers and technical managers
- Laboratory directors and owners
- Internal auditors
- Quality officers preparing for assessment
- Assessors and accreditation body staff
Course outline
- 01What the standard asks for, and what it does not prescribe
- 02Risks to impartiality
- 03Risks to the validity of results
- 04Continuity and operational risk
- 05Proportionate assessment without false precision
- 06Controls that change behaviour
- 07Risk in method, staff and equipment decisions
- 08Keeping the register current and useful
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 to 6 October 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | USD 795 per delegate | Register Now |
| 4 to 5 November 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R11,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 25 to 26 November 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | USD 795 per delegate | Register Now |
| 17 to 18 March 2027 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |