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About the ISO 17025 Toolkit
Laboratories are accredited, not certified. An accreditation body — UKAS, A2LA, ANAB, DAkkS, NABL or another — assesses your laboratory against ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and grants accreditation for a defined scope: named methods, named measurands, named ranges and stated uncertainties. Work outside that schedule is not accredited work, however well it is performed. The ISO 17025 Toolkit is built around that reality.
The ISO 17025 Toolkit contains 70 templates: 51 Word documents and 19 Excel registers, matrices, logs and checklists. Every document cites the clauses it implements, and every one is editable in Microsoft Office.
What is included in the ISO 17025 Toolkit?
- 70 documentation templates covering every clause of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 — clause 4 impartiality and confidentiality through to clause 8 management system
- All files in Microsoft Office format (.docx, .xlsx) — fully editable, with every laboratory-specific value marked as a placeholder
- Instant download immediately after purchase
Laboratories run on registers far more than most organisations do — equipment status, calibration due dates, competence authorisations, proficiency testing coverage, uncertainty budgets — which is why 19 of the 70 documents are working Excel tools rather than prose.
The ISO 17025 Toolkit covers both Option A and Option B
Clause 8 can be met two ways, and the choice governs how much of the management system you write yourself. Option A implements the requirements set out in ISO/IEC 17025 itself. Option B lets a laboratory already operating a system in accordance with ISO 9001 satisfy clause 8 through it.
The ISO 17025 Toolkit ships both routes: a determination procedure that records the decision and its evidence before any clause 8 document is drafted, a full Option A management system, and an ISO 9001 crosswalk that identifies precisely which requirements your existing system already meets and which it does not.
Three things laboratories routinely get wrong about Option B, all addressed in the toolkit: ISO 9001 certification is not required (a system in accordance with it is), the scope must cover the laboratory rather than just the parent organisation, and ISO 9001 management review does not require proficiency testing results, changes in laboratory workload, or impartiality outcomes — so an Option B laboratory has to add them.
ISO 17025 Toolkit structure
The toolkit follows the standard’s own clause order, so the folder list reads as an implementation sequence:
- Programme and Scope — 5 documents
- Impartiality and Confidentiality — 4 documents
- Laboratory Structure — 3 documents
- Personnel and Competence — 6 documents
- Facilities and Environment — 4 documents
- Equipment and Traceability — 8 documents
- External Providers — 3 documents
- Requests, Methods and Sampling — 6 documents
- Items, Records and Uncertainty — 6 documents
- Validity and Reporting — 6 documents
- Complaints and Nonconformity — 4 documents
- Management System — 6 documents
- Mapping and Traceability — 4 documents
- Audit and Assessment — 5 documents
Where the ISO 17025 Toolkit puts its technical weight
Most laboratory template packs go thin exactly where accreditation is won or lost. The ISO 17025 Toolkit does not:
- Measurement uncertainty — a full evaluation procedure with a worked budget: contributions identified, Type A and Type B evaluations, distributions and divisors, combination in quadrature, coverage factor and expanded uncertainty. Not a reference to the GUM and best wishes.
- Decision rules and statements of conformity — clause 7.8.6 is where laboratories get written up. The toolkit shows how the same measured value passes under one rule and fails under another, and requires the rule to be agreed at contract review rather than chosen once the result is known.
- Proficiency testing — coverage planned across the accreditation schedule, evaluation of questionable as well as unsatisfactory results, and the step most often missed: assessing customer results produced in the same period.
- Out-of-tolerance equipment — the exposure period, the results in scope, the impact assessment and the recall decision. Filing a certificate that reads “as found: out of tolerance” without assessing prior results is among the most common findings there is.
List of Documentation Toolkit:
- ISO 17025 Scope of Accreditation Statement.docx
- Management System Option Determination Procedure.docx
- Laboratory Accreditation Programme Charter.docx
- Toolkit Index and Deployment Guide.docx
- Scope of Accreditation Schedule.xlsx
- Impartiality Policy.docx
- Impartiality Risk Assessment Procedure.docx
- Confidentiality Policy and Undertaking.docx
- Impartiality Risk Register.xlsx
- Laboratory Structure and Authorities Statement.docx
- Laboratory Activities and Locations Definition.docx
- Role Descriptions and Deputies Register.xlsx
- Personnel Competence Policy.docx
- Competence Authorisation Procedure.docx
- Training and Development Procedure.docx
- Supervision of Personnel Procedure.docx
- Training Record Template.docx
- Competence Matrix and Authorisation Register.xlsx
- Facilities and Environmental Conditions Standard.docx
- Environmental Monitoring and Control Procedure.docx
- Laboratory Access and Segregation Procedure.docx
- Environmental Monitoring Log.xlsx
- Equipment Management Policy.docx
- Equipment Calibration and Verification Procedure.docx
- Intermediate Checks Procedure.docx
- Metrological Traceability Policy.docx
- Reference Material and Standards Management Procedure.docx
- Equipment Out-of-Tolerance Procedure.docx
- Equipment Register.xlsx
- Calibration Schedule and Status Register.xlsx
- Externally Provided Products and Services Procedure.docx
- Subcontracted Laboratory Activities Procedure.docx
- Approved Supplier and Subcontractor Register.xlsx
- Review of Requests, Tenders and Contracts Procedure.docx
- Method Selection and Verification Procedure.docx
- Method Validation Procedure.docx
- Laboratory Developed Method Control Procedure.docx
- Sampling Procedure and Plan.docx
- Method Register and Validation Status.xlsx
- Handling of Test and Calibration Items Procedure.docx
- Technical Records Standard.docx
- Measurement Uncertainty Evaluation Procedure.docx
- Technical Record Template.docx
- Measurement Uncertainty Budget.xlsx
- Item Receipt and Chain of Custody Log.xlsx
- Ensuring the Validity of Results Policy.docx
- Internal Quality Control Procedure.docx
- Proficiency Testing and Interlaboratory Comparison Procedure.docx
- Reporting of Results Standard.docx
- Decision Rules and Statements of Conformity Procedure.docx
- Proficiency Testing Plan and Results Register.xlsx
- Complaints Procedure.docx
- Nonconforming Work Procedure.docx
- Control of Data and Information Management Standard.docx
- Complaints and Nonconforming Work Register.xlsx
- Laboratory Management System Manual.docx
- Control of Management System Documents Procedure.docx
- Control of Records Procedure.docx
- Risks and Opportunities Procedure.docx
- Improvement and Corrective Action Procedure.docx
- Risk and Opportunity Register.xlsx
- Accreditation Body Requirements Supplement.docx
- ISO 17025 Clause Compliance Matrix.xlsx
- ISO 9001 to ISO 17025 Option B Crosswalk.xlsx
- Document Control Master List.xlsx
- Internal Audit Procedure.docx
- Management Review Procedure and Input Pack.docx
- Assessment Evidence Pack Index.docx
- ISO 17025 Internal Audit Checklist.xlsx
- Internal Audit Programme and Findings Register.xlsx
ISO 17025 Toolkit and accreditation
Because ISO/IEC 17025:2017 is assessed by an accreditation body rather than a certification body, the ISO 17025 Toolkit includes what an assessor asks for: a clause compliance matrix, an internal audit checklist covering every clause, an audit programme and findings register, a management review pack built around the fifteen inputs clause 8.9.2 requires, and an assessment evidence pack index organised around the vertical audit an assessor will run.
Our guide to ISO 17025 explains how accreditation differs from certification, how Option A and Option B compare, and the four areas where assessors most often raise findings.
Simply add your laboratory’s name, replace the bracketed placeholder values with your own detail, and implement the documented policies and procedures within your operational framework.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the ISO 17025 Toolkit?
It is a set of 70 ready-to-edit documentation templates covering every clause of ISO/IEC 17025:2017, the international standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. It includes policies, procedures, registers, matrices and checklists across fourteen sections, from scope of accreditation through to assessment evidence.
Can a laboratory be certified to ISO 17025?
No. Laboratories are accredited, not certified, and accreditation is granted for a defined scope of activities rather than for the standard as a whole. There is no ISO 17025 certificate in the sense that ISO 9001 has one. A supplier presenting one is describing something their assessment body did not issue in the form they are implying.
Which edition does the ISO 17025 Toolkit follow?
ISO/IEC 17025:2017, the third edition and the current one. ISO confirmed it at stage 90.93 with no revision in progress, so unlike some standards there is no edition change pending.
Does the ISO 17025 Toolkit work for both testing and calibration laboratories?
Yes. The standard applies to both, and almost every requirement is common. Where a document is specific to one — sampling, for instance, which applies mainly to testing laboratories — it is marked as such.
Do I need ISO 9001 to use this toolkit?
No. If you hold an ISO 9001 system you can use Option B and the ISO 17025 Toolkit maps it for you. If you do not, Option A is fully documented and requires nothing external.
What formats are the documents in?
51 Microsoft Word documents and 19 Microsoft Excel workbooks. The Word documents carry a table of contents, document control fields and a consistent structure; the workbooks include instruction sheets, controlled dropdown lists, conditional formatting and validation checks. Nothing is locked and no password is required.
How long does ISO 17025 accreditation take?
Typically nine to eighteen months from a standing start. The long poles are rarely the documents: traceable calibration has to be arranged, competence has to be demonstrated, and proficiency testing runs to the scheme provider’s calendar rather than yours. The ISO 17025 Toolkit’s deployment guide sequences the work so those start early.
Does the ISO 17025 Toolkit cover my accreditation body’s own requirements?
The ISO 17025 Toolkit provides the framework for them. Accreditation bodies add requirements on top of ISO/IEC 17025 — participation frequency, symbol use, notification obligations, sector schemes — and these differ by body and change without notice. The toolkit includes a supplement structured around the fourteen areas where bodies commonly add requirements, for you to complete from your body’s current publications.
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