Laboratory Quality Management System

• CODE
  SLT402
• FEES None
• LOCATION Online
• CONTACTS
• DATES

Course Description

Introduction 
LABORATORY QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

This course is meant to provide in depth knowledge to learners on important elements surrounding quality management in the laboratory. The course focuses on issues that bounders on credibility and reliability of laboratory results. The course further runs through understanding and implementation of the requirement of necessary standards related to testing and calibration laboratories. 

Laboratory Quality Management System

Course Details

Background

This course is meant to provide in depth knowledge to learners on important elements surrounding quality management in the laboratory. The course focuses on issues that bounders on credibility and reliability of laboratory results. The course further runs through understanding and implementation of the requirement of necessary standards related to testing and calibration laboratories. 

Rationale

One of the major purpose of laboratories regardless of their scope, is to generate results which are used in decision making. As a results, laboratory results need to be credible and reliable. Laboratory quality management system (QMS) play an important role in ensuring that all processes and components involved in testing or calibration are systematically managed. Implementation of QMS in a laboratory can lead to certification or accreditation. An accredited laboratory demonstrate that it can produce accurate, high-quality results on a consistent basis. In other words, establishment and implementation of a QMS in compliance with the ISO 17025 is accepted as optimal approach to assure quality in testing and calibration laboratories. Having competently trained personnel in quality management in the laboratory is not only essential but a critical tool for laboratory accreditation.

This course is designed to equip laboratory personnel with contextual knowledge of quality management and how to implement it in their respective organisations.

Code

SLT402

Location

Online

Contact

Coordinator: Mr H Simwatachela

Email: hsimwatachela@mu.ac.zm

Dates

Starting june 1^st  2026

17hrs to 19hrs three times a week

Aim

To provide skills and knowledge to leaners on quality management for testing and calibration laboratories and its implementation.

Objectives

At the end of the program Learners should be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge the elements of ISO 17025, good laboratory practice and its implementation.
2. Demonstrate practical knowledge and skill on how quality assurance and quality control are organised and conducted in the laboratory.
3. Demonstrate understanding on measurement traceability in the laboratory.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of estimation of measurement uncertainty in laboratory measurements. 
5. Demonstrate understanding of method validation
6. Demonstrate knowledge on how to conduct laboratory audits

Entry requirements

The candidate must possess a minimum of grade 12 certificate and working /planning to work in a laboratory.

Expected prior knowledge

None

COURSE DELIVERY.

Intensive 3 weeks of lectures, hands-on practical and tutorials sessions

QUALIFICATION

Upon successful completion the candidates will be awarded a certificate in laboratory quality management and a grade appended to the certificate. This qualification will only apply to a student who passes the final exam and completes the assignment or quizzes.

Course Content

1. Statistics as a tool in quality management
2. Quality standards
3. Quality Assurance/Quality control
4. Measurement Traceability
5. Uncertainty
6. Method Validation