3. Objectives of a quality management system (QMS)
Whether it's the ISO 9001 standard, or one of its industry-specific derivatives (EN 9100 or ISO-TS 16949), or the ISO/CEI 170xx series of conformity assessment standards, the primary aim of setting up a quality management system is to provide the company's top manager with a governance tool, and to instill confidence in the company's customers and stakeholders (shareholders or members, staff, regulatory authorities) of the laboratory or organization.
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Building confidence
For a laboratory, it is above all a question of giving confidence to its principals, customers and regulatory authorities in the quality and durability of its analysis, testing or calibration services, in particular by being able to demonstrate a posteriori the implementation of all the pre-established measures to create this confidence, and secondarily...
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Websites
Bilateral agreement between EA and SANAS http://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/pjl14-561.html
Document IAF-ILAC A1 http://www.ilac.org/ilaciafjoint.html
List of signatories to the ILAC international...
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- 1re– Conformity assessment – Vocabulary and general principles – Conformity assessment – Vocabulary and general principles – http://www.iso.org - ISO CEI 17000 - 11-04
- International vocabulary of metrology – Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM) – International Vocabulary of Metrology – Fundamental and general concepts and associated terms (VIM) (http://www.bipm.org) - JCGM 200 - 2008
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Article L. 115-28 of the French Consumer Code designates the national accreditation body in France.
Décret n° 2010-699 du 25 juin 2010 relatif à l'accréditation des organismes de mesures et de vérifications mentionnés à l'article L. 4722-2 du Code du travail (Decree no. 2010-699 of June 25, 2010 on the accreditation of measurement and verification bodies referred to in article L. 4722-2 of the Labor...
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