Chemical Laboratory: Operations, Equipments, Instruments, Quality and Safety
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Chemical Laboratory: Operations, Equipments, Instruments, Quality and Safety Course
Introduction:
In today's highly competitive market environment, the significance of fast and reliable laboratory results cannot be overstated. These results play a critical role in decision-making and process control. Therefore, it is essential for laboratory personnel to receive adequate training on the fundamental principles of laboratory operation.
The Modern Chemical Laboratory training course is designed to ensure that laboratory personnel stay updated on current laboratory operation principles and international guidelines. The course emphasizes the importance of key areas in testing laboratory operation and provides valuable advice in those areas. Some of the critical topics covered include method development and validation, maintaining appropriate environmental conditions, equipment maintenance and control, ensuring quality assurance of test results, understanding measurement uncertainty and sample traceability, personnel training, conducting internal audits, implementing proactive/preventive actions, and performing root cause analysis.
Course Objectives:
This Modern Chemical Laboratory training course aims to help participants to achieve the following objectives:
- Define the role and objectives of their laboratory within an organization
- Understand the importance of quality control
- Develop their skills in method development and method validation
- Improve their skills in the area of equipment maintenance and operation
- Realize the need for data control and method documentation
- Understand the concept of traceability within laboratory activities
- Be able to raise Corrective / Preventive actions and subsequent root cause analysis
- Perfect their skills in conducting Internal Audits and Management Reviews
Who Should Attend?
This Course is ideal for:
- Laboratory Managers
- Scientific Personnel of Laboratories, like Chemists, Chemical Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Process / Shift Engineers
- Laboratory Technicians and newly recruited staff of chemical laboratories
- Instrument Operators in chemical laboratories
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Modern Chemical Laboratory Operation
- Definition of chemical laboratory
- Chemical laboratories as legal entities under different scenaria
- Inhouse laboratories operating within another organization
- Independent commercial laboratories
- Reference laboratories vs. notified laboratories
- Independence and impartiality of laboratories / legal implications
Laboratory Location, Layout and Basic Safety Provisions
- Regulatory / legal / environmental requirements relating to laboratory location
- Laboratory Layout – specific examples of different types of chemical laboratories
- Basic rules relating to location of analytical instruments
- Health and safety considerations / emergency response team
- Chemicals handling and storage
- Ventilation and air conditioning requirements
Laboratory Instrumentation and Equipment
- Defining your needs in analytical equipment
- Selection criteria / Supplier evaluation
- Commissioning of analytical instruments
- Operator training and on-going competence
- Calibration of different types of analytical instruments
- External vs. internal calibration / Calibration standards
Method Development
- In-house developed vs. Standard versus Rapid-screening methods
- Analytical method validation and verification
- Method documentation and assuring traceability – control of data
- Method Quality Control (QC) – use of reference materials (CRMs)
- Internal / external QC
- Introduction to Uncertainty of Measurement (UoM) / Legal implications
Laboratory Accreditation
- Introduction to Laboratory Accreditation
- Management requirements of accreditation bodies
- Internal Audits
- Corrective / Preventive Actions – root cause analysis
- Management Reviews
- Technical requirements of accreditation, including sampling activities