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Procedure · SOP-10

Facilities and Environmental Conditions

Specifying, monitoring, controlling and recording the environmental conditions that affect results.

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Purpose

To define how the Laboratory specifies, achieves, monitors, controls and records the facilities and environmental conditions necessary for the valid performance of its calibrations, and how it acts when conditions fall outside limits.

What is inside

10 sections, about 3 pages when printed.

  1. 1. Purpose
  2. 2. Scope
  3. 3. References
  4. 4. Definitions
  5. 5. Responsibilities
  6. 6. Procedure
  7. Records generated by this procedure
  8. Monitoring and performance indicators
  9. Assessment readiness notes
  10. Related documents

Records it generates

Applying this procedure produces the following records, which are the evidence an assessor samples.

  • –Environmental monitoring data and weekly review
  • –Excursion records and impact evaluations
  • –Environmental readings per job
  • –On-site conditions
  • –Building services maintenance records
  • –Post-change environmental surveys

What an assessor looks for

The document closes with these points, so you can check your own practice before someone else does.

  • –Reading the logger data for the day of a sampled certificate and checking the worksheet readings agree.
  • –Confirming the monitoring sensor is calibrated, positioned sensibly and that its uncertainty is adequate for the limit.
  • –Asking what happens when the air-conditioning fails, and looking for the evidence of what actually happened last time.
  • –Checking that on-site conditions were recorded and within limits.

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.
  • Delete the assessment readiness notes if you do not want them in your controlled version; they are guidance for you, not requirements.

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.