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Can you show your work? Result integrity and audit trails in a testing lab
How to keep every result traceable, controlled and verifiable by the people who rely on it.
Accreditation, insurers, contractors and now regulators all ask the same question about a result: can the lab show where it came from and prove it has not been changed? This paper sets out where integrity is lost in practice, what ISO/IEC 17025 asks of your information systems, how to control spreadsheets and validate systems, and a self-check you can run this quarter.
Who it is for: Quality leads, lab managers and owners at commercial environmental and building testing labs preparing for accreditation assessments or client scrutiny.
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What is inside
- Why result integrity is now a client question, not only an auditor question
- What integrity means in a testing lab
- Where integrity is lost in practice
- What ISO/IEC 17025 asks of your information systems
- Spreadsheets: not forbidden, but they must be controlled
- Validating what you use, in proportion to the risk
- Results other people can verify
- A self-check you can run this quarter
- Result integrity self-check
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