[labnetwork] Is your facility ISO certified?

[Peter Lomax]

Hi Joseph,

At SMC in Edinburgh we did consider this but decided it wasn't worth the effort involved for an open access facility.  We do try to have decent systems with good documentation in place and regularly do work for large ISO9000 certified organisations and have always managed to satisfy them with an audit.

Best

Peter

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Joseph,
   ISO certification is primarily for a manufacturing facility. I don't know of any benefit a shared use facility (I'm assuming that's what you have) would gain.
Becoming ISO certified is extremely expensive and disruptive, you must also allow annual "audits" to your facility which again are very expensive and disruptive.
Iso Certification, in simple terms is just an accreditation that you do what you document and document what you do.
I remember confronting the CEO of a company that I used to work for and asking him if it made the facility any better, his answer was a firm "NO".  I then inquired as to why we do it and the answer was "Because our competition has it".
  Best of luck,
   Steve Paolini  Equipment Dood
Harvard University

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Subject: [labnetwork] Is your facility ISO certified?

Hello.

Is your cleanroom facility ISO certified?  What are your reasons for having or not having ISO certification?  Are there any particular changes you have had to make to your facility to adhere to standards?

The costs appear to be substantial, and we are still deciding whether or not we should go this route.

Cheers and thanks for your replies,
Joe


Joseph Losby, PhD.
Operations Manager, qLab
Quantum City, University of Calgary
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