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UKAS Accreditation Readiness Roadmap

What happens from enquiry to grant of accreditation, what assessors sample, and how to clear findings.

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Purpose

Accreditation is the formal recognition by an independent accreditation body that a laboratory is competent to perform specific calibrations (or tests) to a stated uncertainty, in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017. It is granted for a defined scope (the schedule of accreditation), for defined locations, and is maintained by surveillance. In the United Kingdom the national accreditation body appointed by government is UKAS. Accreditation by an ILAC MRA signatory allows certificates bearing the accreditation symbol to be recognised internationally through the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement.

What is inside

8 sections, about 3 pages when printed.

  1. 1. What accreditation is
  2. 2. The route to accreditation
  3. 3. Typical timescale and effort
  4. 4. What the assessment team examines
  5. 5. Findings and how to clear them
  6. 6. The most common findings at calibration laboratories
  7. 7. Maintaining accreditation
  8. 8. Preparing the people

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.