Laboratory Quality Management Services Pty Ltd personnel have extensive experience in diverse laboratory operations. Projects or contracts awarded to laboratories based solely on price or a written proposal are more likely to encounter serious problems than those whose laboratory selection criteria includes a suitable audit.

We will perform suitably detailed technical audits to ensure that your laboratory is following project and regulatory requirements. A common pitfall is to assume that if a laboratory is certified and/or accredited, that it necessarily meets your project requirements. Often laboratories that are accredited to AS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 are only accredited for a narrow range of tests.

Audits evaluate a laboratory’s management system, technical expertise, operational procedures, facility and equipment sufficiency:

• Organisational Structure / Responsibilities & Authorities.
• Human Resources.
• Physical Resources.
• Equipment.
• Quality Assurance System.
• Reference Materials.
• Test Records.
• Reports.
• Sample Management.
• Internal Audits and Corrective & Preventive Actions.
• Training.
• Safety.

Our audit reports will help you identify your laboratory’s strengths and suitably address their deficiencies.

Periodic external audits by an independent expert can be beneficial to management in implementation of its ongoing quality assurance program. Such audits can assist the laboratory develop a quality assurance program or revise an existing one. Our audits provide management with independent object analysis, evaluation and recommendations. LQMS recommendations remain a confidential service to management.