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About L-A-B
L-A-B Objectives
Laboratory Accreditation Bureau is a recognized accreditation body,
dedicating itself to continually:
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Providing service for our client's needs.
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Improving the quality of laboratories and the services they
provide.
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Increasing the acceptance of accredited laboratories worldwide.
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Complying with ISO/IEC 17011.
Who We Are
Laboratory Accreditation Bureau, a Michigan corporation,
was established to provide laboratory accreditation services to
independent and captive, testing and calibration laboratories across
North America. Laboratory Accreditation Bureau conforms to
ISO/IEC 17011 in assessing and accrediting laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025.
Additional information about related bodies to L-A-B is available
upon request.
Why L-A-B
The founding of L-A-B was based on one uncompromising
goal - to provide testing and calibration laboratories with superior
accreditation services, performed by a team of qualified
assessors.
Timely response is a top priority. L-A-B realizes that many laboratories
are subject to time-sensitive mandates and strives to schedule and
conduct assessments to client timetables. The goal is to process reports
and issue certificates with minimal delay.
Assessor selection criteria include experience, overall qualifications,
communication/interpersonal capabilities and geographic representation
- to provide the best combination of functional and relational skills.
Global harmonization of national and industry-specific standards
is accelerating. This means that, in the future, suppliers will
contend with compliance to fewer, more consistent, and more widely
recognized standards. These requirements will extend deeper into
the supply chain, impacting companies that previously were excluded
from having to meet formal requirements.
Authority and Recognition
Laboratory Accreditation Bureau is a signatory to the
Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC)
Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) effective December 6, 2007. L-A-B
now advances to be a full member of the International
Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) whereby L-A-B will
recognize, and be fully recognized by, the 58 ILAC signatories worldwide.
The USA automotive industry has provided acceptance of L-A-B as
an accreditation body suitable for the purpose of demonstrating
conformance of laboratories to the requirements for laboratories
within the QS-9000 standard.
As an example of the preceding, North American automakers require
their QS-9000/TS-16949 registered suppliers to utilize accredited independent
testing or calibration laboratories to assess compliance to ISO/IEC 17025. The requirements are applicable not only to direct suppliers
to the auto manufacturers, but extend to the subcontracted testing
and calibration laboratories used by their suppliers. L-A-B is a
recognized accreditation body for these laboratories.
Further, L-A-B has achieved full recognition through
NACLA (National
Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation) for testing and
calibration. For further information
on L-A-B's recognition please visit NACLA's website at
www.nacla.net.
Further authority of L-A-B is by virtue of the acceptance by
others of L-A-B accredited laboratories and the data and services
they provide.
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