MOTIVA Training

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MOTIVA helps laboratories more easily implement ISO/IEC 17025 quality systems.

MOTIVA uses internationally-recognized experts in laboratory quality systems, including one of the authors of ISO/IEC 17025. See MOTIVA pages on LinkedIn. See our About Us page.

MOTIVA staff:

are educators
know laboratories
helped write ISO/IEC 17025 Download the Principles Here
know accreditation
know international recognition of accreditation.

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Our Vision

All ILAC-recognised accreditation bodies provide comprehensive training to accredited laboratories.

Announcements (See previous announcements here)

MOTIVA Activity Calendars for 2013 and 2014 updated

MOTIVA activity calendars have been updated for the remainder of 2013 and the first half of 2014. We are expanding our delivery capacity within the next six months to meet the demand, but we recommend booking your desired service for the desired timeslot as soon as practical.

Note that our online E-Learning facility does not need such advance notice. Download a Sample from the online course here. Information about online training is here.

MOTIVA now being used to deliver product certification body training.

MOTIVA has been chosen by A2LA to deliver training on the new standard for product certification, ISO/IEC 17065. See the Course description here.

MOTIVA delivers accreditation expertise to Bangladesh under UNIDO Contract

MOTIVA staff will continue working through to June 2014 to assist the government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh deliver internationally conformant accreditation through their Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB). (more ......)

Articles (See list of articles here)

Selecting an Accreditation Body

Recently, MOTIVA staff participated in a discussion on LinkedIn about how to select an accreditation body to meet the needs of the laboratory staff member asking the question. See the discussion by clicking on this link.

Besides the obvious criterion (does this AB accredit for my scope?) there may be some other issues to consider. Accreditation is only formal recognition of the laboratory's demonstrated competence and if we were to order the things that were important to the lab in terms of demonstrating technical competence, that might focus the questions to the prospective ABs during discussions with them. Remember that the AB works for lab (EU Directive in Europe notwithstanding). They are a service provider to the lab.

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Using Internal Audits for other Purposes

I was recently involved in a conversation about normal interpretations contained in accreditation body policy arising from ISO/IEC Clause 4.14 – Internal Audits. Our discussion was about the accreditation body policy based on the following words from 17025:

"... The internal audit programme shall address all elements of the management system, including the testing and/or calibration activities. ..."

The accreditation policy being discussed was about the use of the laboratory internal audit process that might do two things not specified in the words of the standard:

Examine testing and calibration methods for their continued fitness for purpose, and
Examine the people doing the work for their continued competence.

These words have been interpreted to mean different things to different people, and this note is an attempt to detail the differences between these three separate activities so that their interrelation is better understood in the development of accreditation policy.

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17025 Training that Reaches People

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