This checklist is based on the information from the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 international standard. The checklist is best used by trained and practicing auditors to evaluate or assess the Laboratory Management System (LMS) for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories requirements based on the standard. You will see questions on the checklist that refer to the standard and for each clause provisions are made for additional questions.

The auditors are expected to keep in mind that the standard does not requires mandatory procedures for the various LMS processes; however, the auditors will expect documented information to be available because in the clauses of the standard, the phrase such as ‘documented procedures’ is used to specify that a process, a method, a system, a work instruction, or an arrangement be documented.