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ICP-MS training courses in analytical laboratories and testing laboratory quality.
ISC-SCIENCE has been providing ICP-MS training courses in Spain and Portugal for more than 15 years, in addition to designing tailor-made courses for each laboratory.
Our trainers are highly qualified analytical chemists with extensive experience in the use of ICP-MS.
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ICP-MS training course in analytical laboratories
ISC-SCIENCE has been providing ICP-MS training courses in Spain and Portugal for more than 15 years. This course is mainly aimed at training laboratory technicians in ICP-MS, however, we have also taught courses at universities and research centers to doctoral students and postdocs. Our trainers are highly qualified analytical chemists with extensive experience in the use of ICP-MS.
This course is fully customized and provides our customers with total autonomy in the use of ICP-MS with the ultimate goal of:
- Work in optimal conditions.
- To obtain a better performance of the equipment.
- Produce quality analytical results.
Course details:
Duration
3-5 days.
Facilities
Customer
What will be taught in the course:
- Theoretical introduction to ICP-MS.
- Fundamentals, instrumentation and operation.
- Spectral and non-spectral interference.
- Quantification procedure.
- In-depth explanation of the different functionalities of the ICP-MS software for instrument handling and data processing.
- Creation and fine-tuning of methods of interest for different metals, matrices and calibration ranges.
- Advice on the control of analytical blanks and avoidance of potential metal contamination in the laboratory.
- Explanation of ICP-MS preventive maintenance.
- Advice on the implementation and validation of methods in the field of quality (ISO 17025).
Note 1: This course can be adapted to the client’s needs.
Note 2: Once the course is finished, you will not be alone, you will be able to contact us to solve any problems you may encounter in your day-to-day work.
Quality course in testing laboratories
For more than 15 years, ISC-SCIENCE has been designing tailor-made courses for each laboratory to train its personnel in the different aspects of the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard. Our experts make available to the attendees their extensive experience as technical and responsible personnel and as consultants – trainers of chemical and microbiological analysis laboratories accredited according to UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 and certified according to UNE-EN ISO 9001.
These courses are aimed at both responsible personnel and technical staff of chemical and microbiological analysis laboratories with different objectives depending on the course, such as:
- To provide the necessary tools to successfully address each aspect of the standards.
- Understand each requirement of the standards, both technical and managerial.
- To know the value and process of accreditation according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.
- Be able to:
- Implement or demonstrate compliance with the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.
- Establishing consistent quality controls or their acceptance criteria
- Efficiently resolve nonconformities
- Address verification or validation of test methods.
- Understanding and dealing with the calculation of uncertainties
Course details:
Duration
Based on needs
Facilities
Customer
What will be taught in the course:
Accreditation according to UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard
- Accreditation, its relevance and environment
- National Accreditation Entity
- Accreditation documents
- Obligations, actions and responsibilities of an accredited laboratory.
The UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Standard.
- Management Aspects
- Technical Aspects
- Selection of test methods and customer information
- Sampling
- Test item handling
- Method validation and verification
- Estimation of test uncertainties
- Technical records
- Data control and information management
- Quality management
- Assurance of the validity of the results.
- Internal controls
- Proficiency testing
- Reference materials
- Traceability: Calibration
- Assurance of the validity of the results.
NOTE 1: At ISC-SCIENCE we do not do generic courses, we ask the laboratory and adapt our courses to their needs.
