I'm not even sure how to phrase my question, but...
I'm a relatively new and inexperienced quality manager, and I'm going through our Internal Audit checklists for 17025 for our test lab. I was noticing that some checklists reference the 17025:2017 standard
For example:
4. General Requirements
>4.1 Impartiality
>>4.1.1 Impartiality
>>>Are Lab activities undertaken impartiality and structured and managed to safeguard impartiality?
And some reference NIST 150 2006 Ed. Handbook (National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program Procedures [NVLAP] and Gen Requirements)
For example:
4.13 Control of Records
>4.13.1 General
>>4.13.1.1a
>>>Does the laboratory establish and maintain procedures for identification, collection, indexing, access, filing, storage, maintenance, and disposal of quality and technical records?
I couldn't find anything in our procedures or work instructions that mentions NIST or NVLAP, nor any actual reference on the checklists saying that this was they were pulled from. The only thing I found was the actual NIST 2006 handbook in the personal file of the QM the company had about 2-3 years ago. I only figured this out because I'm very good at googling (I'm the kind of person that needs to know how things work before doing something about it) and the people working here looked as confused as I felt when I mentioned this.
I'm trying to figure out his thought process for doing this; I'm not sure what to do with this information. I can see how they're related, but to use things almost word for word from this second document and not mentioning that anywhere puzzles me.
My Questions:
Should I change things?
Is it necessary to base things off the NIST handbook or is it overboard/ outdated?
Is there a better reference I can use for formatting our internal audit checklists?
Should I even worry about this?
Thanks Cove!
I'm a relatively new and inexperienced quality manager, and I'm going through our Internal Audit checklists for 17025 for our test lab. I was noticing that some checklists reference the 17025:2017 standard
For example:
4. General Requirements
>4.1 Impartiality
>>4.1.1 Impartiality
>>>Are Lab activities undertaken impartiality and structured and managed to safeguard impartiality?
And some reference NIST 150 2006 Ed. Handbook (National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program Procedures [NVLAP] and Gen Requirements)
For example:
4.13 Control of Records
>4.13.1 General
>>4.13.1.1a
>>>Does the laboratory establish and maintain procedures for identification, collection, indexing, access, filing, storage, maintenance, and disposal of quality and technical records?
I couldn't find anything in our procedures or work instructions that mentions NIST or NVLAP, nor any actual reference on the checklists saying that this was they were pulled from. The only thing I found was the actual NIST 2006 handbook in the personal file of the QM the company had about 2-3 years ago. I only figured this out because I'm very good at googling (I'm the kind of person that needs to know how things work before doing something about it) and the people working here looked as confused as I felt when I mentioned this.
I'm trying to figure out his thought process for doing this; I'm not sure what to do with this information. I can see how they're related, but to use things almost word for word from this second document and not mentioning that anywhere puzzles me.
My Questions:
Should I change things?
Is it necessary to base things off the NIST handbook or is it overboard/ outdated?
Is there a better reference I can use for formatting our internal audit checklists?
Should I even worry about this?
Thanks Cove!