The material on this page has been presented at a number of universities as part of the VAM training and education activities. PDF documents of the lecture material are available in three formats: slides; notes pages with additional background information and handouts with 3 slides to a page.
Two sets of material are available. The first is a single lecture, �Importance of Quality Assurance� aimed at promoting the importance of quality assurance in analytical laboratories. The second set is a one-day workshop on quality assurance which covers issues such as the technical requirements of the ISO/IEC 17025 standard and establishing the traceability of measurement results. It includes a series of lectures and workshops, all of which can be downloaded.
Importance of quality assurance
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Quality assurance workshop
This resource consists of the following:
Workshop programme. Click here to download
Introduction to VAM lecture
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Workshop 1: Contract review. Click here to download answers to workshop 1.
Quality standards lecture
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Workshop 2: Choosing an analytical laboratory
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Traceability lecture (incorporating a practical exercise)
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Click here to download material for traceability exercise