17025 QMS Short Webinar 09 - What is a Decision Rule and why should Laboratories care?

3048 – SHORT QMS COURSES FOR LABS

Webinar 9 – What is a Decision Rule, and why should laboratories care?
3048 – SHORT QMS COURSES FOR LABS

This hour-long webinar will explain what a decision rule is in the context of a laboratory making a decisionon whether a test or calibration result is a “Pass” or a “Fail”.

It will detail the requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025 standard for accredited testing or calibration laboratories when making a Pass/Fail statement on their certificates, and how the decision rule employed can influence the outcome.

Presented by an international accreditation body peer evaluator and accreditation program manager with 20 years of experience in metrology as laboratory manager, laboratory assessor, and technical committee member.

Topics:

  • What is a decision rule?
  • Why is the decision rule important when evaluating calibration and test results?
  • What are the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 with regards to the decision rule?
  • How to choose a decision rule.
Good news!
This webinar course includes a Certificate of Achievement and compliant CEU units—a great reward for completing the program.
And as the saying goes: great rewards come with greater responsibilities. Because CEUs follow strict compliance rules, you’ll need to complete each lesson exactly as required (the required steps are shown inside each lesson).
If you don’t complete the required step, you won’t be able to move on to the next lesson.


Your Instructor


Helga Alexander
Helga Alexander

Helga was the Calibration Program Manager for IAS. Her experience included 13 years at the Keithley Instrument Calibration Lab, leading to her management of their primary standards lab. She first became involved in accreditation in 2008 and became a calibration laboratory assessor in 2013.
Prior to assuming responsibility for the IAS Calibration Laboratory Accreditation Program, she had spent four years with Southern Research Institute as their Quality Manager.
At that time, Helga represented IAS at NCSLI and was the Convenor of the APAC Calibration Sub Committee of the APAC Technical Committee.


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