A STUDY ON THE BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING ISO/IEC 17025:2017 LAB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN CALIBRATION AND TESTING LABS

Abstract

The standard used for laboratory certification is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 - General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. Laboratory accreditation in a testing laboratory, the implementation procedures, and the practical benefits received from such an entity. The descriptive research approach was utilised in this study to investigate the Benefits in the implementation of the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the Calibration and Testing Laboratories in Chennai. The key variable of the current study is the Benefits in the implementation of the ISO/IEC 17025:2017. The researcher employed a technique known as purposive sampling. This study relies on a 180-respondent survey. The research used SPSS 20 to analyse the data once it was collected. It has been discovered that best practises and believing in the benefits require Top Management to be well aware of the benefits of Implementation of ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 Lab Management System, Task and lab managersto be well aware of the Implementation of ISO/IEC 17025: 2017 Lab Management System, Calibration and Testing Lab management tools, and development Calibration and Testing Laboratories infrastructure, and teams to work together and responsibility is associated with Calibration and Testing Laboratories.