Quality Management

Describes whether a product or a service meets the minimum specifications set by the customer in a timely manner

Composed of quality management, quality assurance and quality control

Planned and systematic control that will give assurance to the client or customer that the quality of the data being generated in the lab are of good quality

Programs that will ensure that the quality control activities are being practiced in every aspect of the system

Provides all guidelines and procedures involved in managing quality systems

Inspection made on different areas of the laboratory to determine whether the area complies with the arranged quality management plans

Process of certifying by an independent third party individual that a lab is competent

Examples of Accrediation Body

Quality System Standard: Most generl and globally recognized standard employed by testing and calibration laboratories that provices technical competece of the lab

Commonly used by manufacturing organizations or suppliers of products

Standard protocol required for all the analytical lab which is concerned in the overall process in the laboratory from planning, execution, monitoring …., a subsection of GMP

Protocol that requires all organizations manufacturing products for human consumption to be safe, pure and effective

Quality system standard employed specifically on pathology Lab