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Form · FRM-33

Confidentiality and Impartiality Declaration

Signed undertaking by staff, contractors and committee members.

Purpose

The signed undertaking by every person who could influence laboratory activities - employees, contractors, consultants, committee members - to act impartially, declare conflicts of interest and keep confidential all information obtained or created during laboratory activities, renewed annually.

What it covers

  • Undertaking
  • Declaration of interests

How to complete it

  1. 1.Every person signs on engagement and annually thereafter; the Quality Manager reviews declarations and files them in the personnel competence file.
  2. 2.Declare all relationships and interests listed; where none, write 'none'. Update the declaration whenever circumstances change.
  3. 3.The undertaking survives the end of engagement.

Before you use it

  • Replace every square-bracket token, starting with [LABORATORY NAME], [ADDRESS] and [EFFECTIVE DATE]. The full token list is in GD-01 Read Me First.
  • Have the content technically reviewed against how your laboratory actually works, then approved by the responsible manager before it becomes a controlled document.
  • Update the Word fields after editing so the table of contents and page numbers are correct: select all, then press F9.
  • Record the document in your own document register and set its review date.

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This is an original template published by ValiTrac. It does not reproduce the text of ISO/IEC 17025 or of any accreditation body publication, and it does not by itself confer or guarantee accreditation. Customise, review and approve it before use.