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Guide · GD-01

Read Me First - How to Use and Customise This Pack

Adoption roadmap, find-and-replace tokens, document hierarchy and a 12-week implementation plan.

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Purpose

The ValiTrac ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Laboratory Documentation Pack (version 2.0, 2026-09-13) is a complete, integrated set of management system documents for a calibration laboratory preparing for accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 by UKAS or another ILAC MRA signatory accreditation body. It contains a Quality Manual, 33 procedures, 50 forms, 6 checklists, 6 guides, an uncertainty calculator workbook and a GMP validation and thermal mapping set (10 protocols and 10 forms). Every document uses the same identifiers, cross-references and terminology, so that the system reads as one system rather than a collection of templates.

What is inside

7 sections, about 3 pages when printed.

  1. 1. What this pack is
  2. 2. Contents of the pack
  3. 3. Document hierarchy and identifiers
  4. 4. Customising the documents
  5. 5. Twelve-week implementation plan
  6. 6. Using the pack with ValiTrac
  7. 7. Support and feedback

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.

Related documents

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.