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This guide offers advice on producing a laboratory quality assurance manual. It explains accreditation standards, details the elements of quality systems, describes the process of creating a manual, provides a sample manual, and supplies reproducible blank forms. A companion CD-ROM contains software with which to customize forms and checklists. Ratliff is a quality engineer and quality auditor.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
Both the 17025:1999 standard and especially ANSI/ISO/ASQ,9001-2000 standard require that a laboratory document its procedures for obtaining reliable results. The Laboratory Quality Assurance Manual details to the user how to a prepare a new laboratory quality assurance manual, which will be appropriate to use as a procedures manual for a particular laboratory, a sales tool to attract potential customers, a document that can be to answer regulatory questions, and ultimately a tool to become a registered ISO 9001/2000 Lab and gain related certifications based on the standard. The Laboratory Quality Assurance Manual:
-Incoporates changes to ANSI/ISO/ASQ 9001-2000 pertaining to laboratories.
-Provides blank forms used in preparing a quality manual.
-Provides information on the interrelationship of ANSI/ISO 17025:1999 and ANSI/ISO/ASQ 9001-2000.
Book Info
Manual shows how to create a quality assurance manual satisfying the needs of any particular laboratory, while meeting the requirements of its regulatory or accrediting body. Includes new material on increased requirements for expanding customer relationships, continual improvement, and other areas as set forth in ANSI/ISO/ASQ 9000-2000. Previous ed: c1996. Softcover.