ISO/IEC 17043:2010 General requirements for proficiency testing

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ISO/IEC 17043:2010 General requirements for proficiency testing

Description

ISO/IEC 17043:2010(en) Conformity assessment — General requirements for proficiency testing: The use of interlaboratory comparisons is increasing internationally. This International Standard provides a consistent basis to determine the competence of organizations that provide proficiency testing.

Abbreviation: ISO/IEC 17043:2010(en)

Reference: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:29366:en

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Normative references

ISO/IEC 17000:2004(en) Conformity assessment — Vocabulary and general principles - selected publicly available informative sections of standards

Some of the terms included in this International Standard relate to concepts it was considered essential to define. Others it was thought helpful to explain.

• Accreditation: third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying formal demon­stration of its competence to carry out specific conformity assessment tasks. The term “accreditation” is now applicable only to attestation regarding a conformity assessment body.

• Attestation: issue of a statement, based on a decision following review, that fulfilment of specified require­ments has been demonstrated. The resulting statement, referred to in this International Standard as a “statement of conformity”, conveys the assurance that the specified requirements have been fulfilled. Such an assurance does not, of itself, afford contractual or other legal guarantees.

• Audit: systematic, independent, documented process for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information and assessing them objectively to determine the extent to which specified require­ments are fulfilled. Whilst “audit” applies to management systems, “assessment” applies to conformity assessment bodies as well as more generally.

• Conformity assessment: demonstration that specified requirements (3.1) relating to a product (3.3), process, system, person or body are fulfilled. The concept of “conformity assessment” is concerned with “fulfilment of specified requirements”. In English, the term “compliance” is used to distinguish the action of doing what is required (e.g. an organization “complies” by making something conform or by fulfilling a regulatory requirement).

• First-party conformity assessment activity: conformity assessment activity that is performed by the person or organization that provides the object. The first-, second- and third-party descriptors used to characterize conformity assessment activities with respect to a given object are not to be confused with the legal identification of the relevant parties to a contract.

• Inspection: examination of a product design, product, process or installation and determination of its con­formity with specific requirements or, on the basis of professional judgement, with general requirements. Inspection of a process may include inspection of persons, facilities, technology and methodology.

• Member of a system or scheme: body that operates under the applicable rules and has the opportunity to take part in the management of the system or scheme.

• Participant in a system or scheme: body that operates under the applicable rules without having the opportunity to take part in the management of the system or scheme.

• Peer assessment: assessment of a body against specified requirements by representatives of other bodies in, or candidates for, an agreement group.

• Procedure: specified way to carry out an activity or a process.

• Product: result of a process. The ISO 9000 definition of “product” includes services as a product category, so that it is no longer correct to refer to “products and services”.

• Review: verification of the suitability, adequacy and effective­ness of selection and determination activities, and the results of these activities, with regard to fulfilment of specified requirements by an object of conformity assessment.

• Sampling: provision of a sample of the object of conformity assessment, according to a procedure.

• Second-party conformity assessment activity: conformity assessment activity that is performed by a person or organization that has a user interest in the object. Persons or organizations performing second-party conformity assessment activities include, for example, purchasers or users of products, or potential customers seeking to rely on a supplier's management system, or organizations representing those interests.

• Specified requirement: need or expectation that is stated. Specified requirements may be stated in normative documents such as regulations, standards and technical specifications.

• Testing: determination of one or more characteristics of an object of conformity assessment, according to a procedure.

• Third-party conformity assessment activity: conformity assessment activity that is performed by a person or body that is independent of the person or organization that provides the object, and of user interests in that object.