4. Laboratory organization

In this chapter, we address the various aspects of the metrology laboratory's general organization in terms of quality management, administrative operation and the various technical requirements necessary to ensure the production of technically valid results. These organizational aspects are also the key to the metrology laboratory's voluntary application for accreditation by a certified body. In this case, the day-to-day implementation of its organization will enable it to provide proof of its management system, the technical competence of its staff and the conformity and technical validity of the measurements and results it produces.

All aspects governing the operation and organization of a metrology laboratory are contained and detailed in the international standard ISO/CEI 17025, on which accreditation bodies base their recognition of the competence of testing...

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Standards and norms

Installations électriques à basse tension. Règles. - NF C 15-100 - 1991
Enceintes et conditions d'essai. Températures préférentielles d'essai. - X 15-050 - 1991
Métrologie. La fonction métrologique dans l'entreprise. - NF X 07-010 - 1986
Atmosphères normales de conditionnement et/ou d'essai. Spécifications. - ISO 554 - 1976
Conception des Installations électriques. - EN 50160 - 2000

Regulations

European Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 89/336/EEC.

Directives concerning personal safety: Low Voltage 73/23/EEC and Machinery 93/44/EC and 93/68/EC.

Mutual recognition of national measurement standards and of calibration and measurement certificates issued by national metrology institutes Paris, October 14, 1999. Technical supplement revised in October 2003,...