Quality & Project Management
ISO/IEC 17025:2017&ISO 17020:2026 Lead Auditor Training
Overview
A professional programme for those who plan, lead and report management-system audits against ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 17020:2026 as an integrated audit. It follows the audit principles of ISO 19011 and covers the full audit cycle — from planning and opening meeting to findings, nonconformity grading, reporting and follow-up — through realistic case work and role play.
Standards in this programme · 2
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ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Testing and Calibration Laboratories
Lays out the operating requirements that testing and calibration laboratories must meet to demonstrate they are technically competent, impartial and capable of producing consistent results. It covers staff competence, equipment, methods, sampling, measurement traceability and quality-control processes, and forms the technical basis on which accreditation bodies assess and accredit laboratories worldwide. By harmonizing these requirements internationally, it lets test and calibration reports issued in one country be trusted elsewhere without repeat testing.
Key objectives
- Define competence, impartiality and consistency requirements for testing and calibration labs
- Serve as the technical basis for laboratory accreditation worldwide
- Ensure reliability and comparability of test and calibration results across borders
- Reduce duplicate testing by enabling mutual recognition of laboratory results
- Align laboratory quality processes with the structure used by other management standards
Who uses it
Testing and calibration laboratories seeking to demonstrate competence.
Contribution to the SDGs
Per ISO, ISO/IEC 17025 contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Learning outcomes
What you will be able to do
- Interpret the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 17020:2026 in an audit context
- Plan an audit programme and an individual audit, including scope, criteria and sampling
- Lead an audit team and conduct opening and closing meetings
- Collect and evaluate objective evidence through interview, observation and document review
- Grade nonconformities and write clear, defensible audit findings
- Prepare the audit report and follow up corrective actions
Who should attend
Auditors, consultants, management representatives and professionals who want to lead first-, second- or third-party audits.
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