Webinars

For those who wondered if ISO/IEC 17025 would eventually require accredited laboratories to perform proficiency testing/inter-laboratory comparisons, the answer is yes. Several additional considerations for ensuring the validity of results have been added, including expanding the focus on quality assurance. Laboratories performing testing and/or calibration must ensure that results are valid. The requirements of clause…

Laboratories are becoming more aware of the new decision-rule requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017, but first we need to understand the entire picture of the service requested to determine which decision rule is most appropriate for a given situation. This webinar will discuss how, through contract review, decision rules are agreed on, documented, and understood by…

This webinar will provide an overview of assessment based-training and education program design and development as well as the requirements of ASTM E2659, Standard Practice for Certificate Programs. How do you assure participants have achieved intended learning outcomes at the end of a course? The answer to this question has become even more important with…

Watch ANAB’s free webinar on Sampling and Testing of Drinking Water on September 22 to learn more about ISO/IEC 17025 in the environmental area and how accredited testing provides valid results, accurate and impartial reporting, and confidence in the sampling and testing performed. The water quality problem in Flint, MI, is just one of many…

Soft skills are personal attributes, traits, and behaviors that enable an individual to effectively interact with other people. They are a combination of social and communication skills, as well as personality traits and attitudes. Soft skills are particularly important in jobs that require employees or contractors to engage with others, such as when performing an…

Statistics, who needs that? Well, between ISO/IEC 17020 and ISO/IEC 17025, there are multiple requirements that call for selecting and applying statistical techniques and methods for processing and analysis of data, sampling plans, and reviewing and/or interpreting results. Join this free webinar to learn more about these requirements and a few statistical techniques that can…

In this webinar, we will review the new Accreditation Scheme for Conformity Assessment (ASCA) Pilot Program launched by the FDA. This pilot is a voluntary program for accreditation bodies, medical device manufacturers, and testing laboratories to enhance confidence in medical device testing and validity of test results through accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and the ASCA…