SEMINAR OVERVIEW LE490
Uncertainty of Measurement and Method Validation In Accordance With ISO 17025
 

Seminar Title
Uncertainty of Measurement and Method Validation In Accordance With ISO 17025

Seminar Date/ Venue
February 21-25, 2010/Al Huwaila, Millennium Hotel, Doha, Qatar

Seminar Reference
LE490

Seminar Duration/Credits
Five days/3.0 CEUs

Seminar Description
Statistical tools play an important role in GLP to calculate the Uncertainty Measurement. This seminar will focus on the latest techniques and standards developed to measure the uncertainty of the data. The Guideline for Uncertainty Measurement (GUM) will be introduced in a simple way. Every effort is made in this seminar to eliminate unnecessary complications, to apply the GUM at its simplest level and to take away apparent mystery. Participants who have never drawn up uncertainty budgets before usually develop the required skill well before the end of the seminar. Others who seek explanations of GUM complexities obtain clarifications expressed in simple terms. Measurement uncertainty problems are solved by brainstorming methods so as to generate interaction by all participants. The seminar will use the Statistical Process Control (SPC) module as a tool to validate the uncertainty measurement. It covers control charts and their applicability to uncertainty before covering a step-by-step process of calculating uncertainty for a typical application. Methods of reporting uncertainty, the uncertainty budget and applicable standards and guidelines for expressing measurement uncertainty are covered in some detail. Successful completion of this seminar will enable participants to understand, evaluate and express measurement uncertainty.

Laboratories have a professional obligation to provide accurate and reliable analytical results to customers. The Laboratory should justify the customer’s trust by providing the correct answer to the analytical part of the problem, in other words, results that have demonstrable ‘fitness for purpose’. Analytical method validation is one of the measure universally recognized by laboratory as a necessity for a comprehensive system of quality assurance.

Method validation is the process that provides evidence that a given analytical method, when correctly applied, produces results that are fit for purpose. No matter how well a method performs elsewhere, analysts need to confirm that the method is valid when applied in their laboratory. There is now a much greater emphasis on method validation in the ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation standard. Through a number of workshops within this seminar, delegates build a validation protocol for a method of their choice.

The ability to estimate measurement uncertainty is now a requirement of testing laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025. This seminar is in line with ISO principles and with the EURACHEM/CITAC guide. ‘Quantifying Uncertainty in Analytical Measurement’. The seminar will introduce the principles of evaluating uncertainty and the tools for identifying uncertainties and using validation data. The seminar will take participants through the process of evaluating uncertainty. Completion of this seminar should provide sufficient training to enable analysts to carry out an uncertainty evaluation for their own laboratory methods

seminar Objectives
Upon the successful completion of the seminar, participants will be able to:-

• Enable scientists/technicians to understand the principles of uncertainty of measurement

• Know the difference between errors and uncertainties and be familiar with the measures of central tendency & measures of the spread of measurements

• Learn the various types of hypothesis testing and the concept of ANOVA

• Introduce the basic principles of correlation and regression

• Enable them to draw up an uncertainty budget

• Understand the process of method validation as prescribed by ISO 17025

• Enable them to draw up a method validation document according to ISO 17025

• Learn how to set validation criteria that will satisfy the needs of customers

• Recognize the method of validation by considering the proof of the performance of a method and/or assuring the quality of a measurement according to ISO 17025

• Perform maintenance of validation by means of analysis of QC samples & CRMs, reproducibility studies and customer management

• Demonstrate the process of writing a method validation document by presenting some case studies and practical exercises to enhance knowledge and understanding of the subject

Training Methodology
This interactive training seminar includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of total tuition hours:-
50% Lectures
30% Workshops, Group Work & Practical Exercises
20% Videos & Software

Who Should Attend
This seminar is aimed at laboratory managers of test laboratories and scientists doing measurements in test laboratories.

Seminar Certificate
Competency Certificates will be issued to participants who successfully completed the seminar and passed the exams at the end of the seminar.

Seminar Accreditation
Haward Technology’s courses/workshops/seminars meet the professional certification and continuing education requirements for participants seeking Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in accordance with the rules & regulations of the International Association for Continuing Education & Training (IACET). IACET is an international authority that evaluates programs according to strict, research-based criteria and guidelines. The CEU is an internationally accepted uniform unit of measurement in qualified courses of continuing education.

Haward Technology has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102, USA. In obtaining this approval, Haward Technology has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard which is widely recognized as the standard of good practice internationally. As a result of our Authorized Provider membership status, Haward Technology is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET 1-2007 Standard.

Haward Technology Middle East will award 3.0 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for participants who completed the total tuition hours of this program. One CEU is equivalent to ten Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or ten contact hours of the participation in and completion of Haward Technology programs. A permanent record of a participant’s involvement and awarding of CEU will be maintained by Haward Technology. Haward Technology will provide a copy of the participant’s CEU Transcript of Records upon request.

Seminar Fee
US $ 3,750 per Delegate. This rate includes Participant’s Pack (Folder, Manual, Hand-outs, etc.), buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Accommodation
Accommodation is not included in the seminar fees. However, any accommodation required can be arranged by Haward Technology at the time of booking.

Seminar Director
Professor Robert McCrindle PhD, MSc, BSc (UK)...More

Seminar Coordinator
Aisha Ibrahim, Tel: +971-2-44 88 301, Fax: +971-2-44 88 302, Email: aisha@haward.org