ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Audit Preparedness Checklist

If you have been through an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment, you know the feeling. An external assessor walks into your laboratory, picks up an instrument from the bench, checks its label, and starts pulling the thread — calibration records, intermediate checks, maintenance logs, traceability chain. One missing link and it becomes a nonconformity on your assessment report.

This checklist is built to help you find those missing links before the assessor does. It covers every clause of ISO/IEC 17025:2017. You can work through it section by section with your Quality Manager or your laboratory team. Five areas get extra attention because they account for the majority of nonconformities raised in assessments across the Asia Pacific region and globally: Method Validation & Verification (7.2), Equipment (6.4), Reporting of Results (7.8), Control of Records (7.5 & 8.4), and Statements of Conformity (7.8.6). These sections include real-world examples and practical guidance.

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