THE NEW ISO/IEC 17025 (2005) STANDARD

摘要

Since 1990, many laboratories and accreditation bodies used ISO/IEC Guide 25, "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories" [1] as the requirements for ensuring competent laboratories and technically valid test and calibration results. As part of the normal process for revising ISO documents, Guide 25 was brought before ISO Working Group 25 in the late 1990's to be updated. The result was a new standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories called ISO/IEC 17025 (1999) [2]. Because the quality management system requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 (1999) agreed with ISO 9001 (1994) [3], laboratories operating in accordance with ISO 17025 could rightly claim that they also met the ISO 9000 requirements. This was a significant marketing advantage to the laboratories, especially for help in meeting the requirements of their clients who do not understand the difference between laboratory accreditation and ISO 9000 registration, and/or the suitability of ISO/IEC 17025 to the testing and calibration community.