ISO 17025 Quality Manual Template
Monday, January 23, 2006
4.1 Organization / 4.1.1 Legal identification
4.1 Organization
4.1.1 Legal identification
ISO 17025 requires that the lab be held legally responsible.
This has been interpreted and accepted by accreditation bodies as "Legal Identification" or "identifiable under law".
Essentially, the laboratory or organization needs to be able to state their business name and place of business so that the accreditation body can ensure control over the status of accreditation. In the end the accreditation covers a distinct organization and is limited to that entity. If "corporate" boundaries are not clear and distinguishable, the labortory is not legally identifiable.
4.1.1 Legal identification
ISO 17025 requires that the lab be held legally responsible.
This has been interpreted and accepted by accreditation bodies as "Legal Identification" or "identifiable under law".
Essentially, the laboratory or organization needs to be able to state their business name and place of business so that the accreditation body can ensure control over the status of accreditation. In the end the accreditation covers a distinct organization and is limited to that entity. If "corporate" boundaries are not clear and distinguishable, the labortory is not legally identifiable.
