Maintaining Accreditation Bodies for a Laboratory

• Maintaining Accreditation Bodies for a Laboratory
  • Overview
  • Process
    • Effect of Accreditation Body upon reporting of Schemes

Overview

An accreditation body is a governing body that certifies and accredits the services and tests performed by a laboratory, for example, regulatory organisations, or a representative of standards for a particular product, substance, service or industry.

A laboratory can be associated with multiple accreditation bodies.

Process

Maintain accreditation bodies for a laboratory

A laboratory can hold accreditation with many accreditation bodies. Each scheme can be associated with a method. A method is associated with several accreditation bodies. This relationship can be used on a report to determine the accreditation for a scheme.

Effect of Accreditation Body upon reporting of Schemes

A method is linked, optionally, to one or more accreditation bodies.

A scheme is linked, optionally, to a method.

An analyte has a flag to indicate whether it is accredited or not.

Therefore, when results for the scheme are reported, the system can determine accreditation bodies associated with the method, and filter those by those associated with the laboratory, to then place the accreditation body's logo on the report, and indicate which reported analyte is accredited by the laboratory.