Instructor Deanne Emory - ANSI National Accreditation Board ISO standards provide requirements for accreditation, certification and self-declaration of conformance. Within these requirements are tools that organizations can use to not only implement the requirements, but also as value-added tools for improvement. These tools include risk-based thinking, cause analysis and corrective action, internal audits and management...

Instructor Deanne Emory - ANSI National Accreditation Board This course reviews the basic concepts and accreditation requirements associated with measurement traceability, measurement assurance, and measurement uncertainty as well as their interrelationships. Metrology terminology and basic statistics will be introduced, including a discussion on probability density functions and how they are used to quantify uncertainty components....

Instructor Susan Audino - S. Audino & Associates, LLC Quality control (QC), alongside quality assurance (QA), forms the foundation of a laboratory’s QA/QC program. QA oversees the entire system to ensure operations stay within acceptable limits, while QC focuses on detecting and addressing deviations in method performance. Together, they ensure that test outcomes meet regulatory...

Instructor Deanne Emory - ANSI National Accreditation Board Method validation must be planned activity where it is necessary to have confidence in the results produced by the method, including, but not limited to, laboratories, manufacturing organizations and petroleum facilities. The scope of the method being validated, and acceptance criteria, must be defined before method validation...