The Benefits of a Management System

7 Participation in Proficiency Testing (PT) schemes/interlaboratory comparisons and review of data 

The initial resource requirement will therefore be the effort required to agree the quality management system structure and content and compile the information as a Quality Manual. This process often takes several months to complete and, according to the size of the laboratory concerned, may involve a number of staff allocating a significant proportion of their time to this work. It must be remembered that the quality management system must be tailored to the work - not the work tailored to the quality management system. 

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