News — Audit Planning

Planning for internal audits under the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard may be different for your laboratory. The biggest change in the requirements for internal audits comes in clause 8.8.2 (a) which states that laboratories “…shall take into consideration the importance of the laboratory activities concerned, changes affecting the laboratory, and the results of previous audits.” This clause is about risk-based thinking. When planning your audits under the 2017 version of the standard, you need to apply risk-based thinking and decide what areas of the laboratories and specific procedures need to be included in the audit. So, what do you need to...