L-A-B Newsletter January 2010
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Laboratory Accreditation Bureau's
Accreditation Focus January 2010 Improving Laboratories through Accreditation Since 1999 . . . |
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Feature Article New Year’s Greetings from L-A-B! L-A-B has always worked to excel at being more responsive, providing more resources, being more transparent in our process . . . last year we re-engineered our website, increased its search functionality, and added individual “Lab Pages” within our Directory of Accredited labs. This year we’ll bring you more resources, starting with this new e-newsletter – each month we will bring you valuable content – help educate you on avoiding some of the top non-conformances and give you tools to make your life easier and more productive.
New L-A-B News Keeping in tune with the New Year theme, we truly want to help provide more resources. With that in mind we’ve started compiling lists of topics for upcoming articles, webinars and other content. What do you want to learn more about? What challenges your Lab with regard to ISO 17025? Please send ideas to sales@l-a-b.com with “newsletter content” in the subject line – we’ll add to our list and continue to knock out good information to bring help your way! Congratulations! - newly Accredited L-A-B labs Accutest Laboratories Southeast Upcoming Trainings / Events Interested in our public ISO 17025 Internal Auditor Trainings? We’re still working to set our 2010 schedule and venue selection – if you have a need please emails us at sales@l-a-b.com subject line “training” and let us know your preferred location(s) and how many personnel you have needing training. 2009’s training schedule included (5) trainings – attendees graciously provided positive feedback, our trainings are constantly improving, 2010 should include 4 to 5 more.
This month we dive into Root Cause Analysis and L-A-B requirements surrounding the effective use of Root Cause Analysis. You'll learn, through a humorous example, how costly (both in time and money) ineffective root cause analysis can be for your laboratory. In addition this short 12 minute video will summarize the following requirements with regard to root cause analysis:Click here to view the L-A-B Root Cause Analysis Video Cause Analysis is required. Productivity Tips Are you a ‘stacker?’, ‘pile maker?, how about a ‘procrastinator?’ this article may help you - Start practicing “One touch” time management . . . one of the best resources on time management I’ve studied is David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” – one of my big “take-aways” was a technique for processing all the incoming information we receive . . . we get calls, emails, faxes, co-workers come to us with questions, tasks, events; for the sake of this article let’s call these “INFLOWS”. How can we keep it all straight? We some days we get one INFLOW after another. . . How can we avoid turning around in circles again and again without ever really being productive in an effective manner? Start by making a commitment to yourself to begin to get organized going forward. Start today. When you get a new INFLOW ( and assuming it’s one that requires action) - David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” suggests you make one of three simple decisions: 1) DO IT NOW 2) DELEGATE IT IMMEDIATELY 3) DEFER IT TIL LATER (schedule a date and time now on your calendar to take action on it) Rather than putting it in the pile, risking it becoming lost forever, moved or misplaced – take one of the appropriate actions above . . .it’s free your mind to be more effective and move forward in your day. Next month we’ll discuss what to do with those INFLOWS that don’t require any action – examples include things you might do in the future, articles you might want to read or review. Until then practice this little trick – best of luck!
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