Survey Meter Calibration - Accredited Laboratory required?

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Kyles

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I am sending out a survey meter for calibration. Do I need it to be acredited to 17025 or is a standard NIST cert ok?
 
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Re: Survey meter calibration - Accredited lab required?

I am sending out a survey meter for calibration. Do I need it to be accredited to 17025 or is a standard NIST cert ok?
Kyles! Welcome!

First off, are you talking about a device like a Geiger counter?

If you want the equipment calibrated it isn't a case of being 'accredited' or just getting a NIST cert. The lab you choose may or may not be accredited, it's your call. Whatever lab you choose, if you want to have a fully traceable calibration you (the lab that is) will need a reference to a NIST report, so that you can ensure traceability and more.

As with any service, you have to understand and specify what 'level' of service (calibration) you require. It's not really up to anyone else to say, however, you should consider what you are doing with the results of measurement, if you may need to compare what you measure with a customer's measurements etc - that type of thing will tell you what you need from 'calibration'...
 
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Kyles

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Re: Survey meter calibration - Accredited lab required?

We have no customer requirements as far as calibration. This will be only if the State wants proof that it has been calibrated. In short we are covering our back side.:thanx:
 
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Re: Survey meter calibration - Accredited lab required?

We have no customer requirements as far as calibration. This will be only if the State wants proof that it has been calibrated. In short we are covering our back side.:thanx:
OK, so what options do you have open to you, when it comes to suppliers of cal. services? Are there both ISO/IEC 17025 accredited and unaccredited services?
 
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Kyles

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Re: Survey meter calibration - Accredited lab required?

All of the labs that we deal with are 17025 accredited. We don't want to pay for a higher calibration service than we have to. If we dont need a cert stating 17025 it's cheeper for us.
 
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Re: Survey meter calibration - Accredited lab required?

All of the labs that we deal with are 17025 accredited. We don't want to pay for a higher calibration service than we have to. If we don't need a cert stating 17025 it's cheaper for us.
Only you can determine if you need to 'trust' the calibration. The whole point of using an accredited lab to 17025 isn't whether it costs more, but whether you need calibration results you can trust - this includes measurement uncertainty, for example.

You haven't said what this equipment is used for, and you say it's to keep the state happy, so, you might ask yourself, if the state came to you and said, we don't believe your measurements, show us the calibration results, would that make any difference to whether they believed you? What I'm saying is, 'cheap' has a price some times, but only you can decide.
 
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