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QUALITY
POLICY STATEMENT
Loring
Laboratories (Alberta) Ltd. recognizes that to succeed and
be profitable we must consistently meet or exceed our customer's
requirements and expectations for the quality, performance
and, in addition, the cost of the services we provide. Quantitative
and quality objectives based on specific methods of measurement
are established to ensure the soundness of our system. Managers
who are responsible for these measurements are held accountable
for their results.
Our
Quality Manual defines the Quality Management System as it
applies to Loring Laboratories (Alberta) Ltd. of 629 Beaverdam
Rd.NE Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is based on the current
version of International Standard ISO 9001:2008.
Loring
Labs management, personally affirm our commitment to enhancing
the Standard and we fully support the provisions of the manual
and solicit the active partnership of all our employees in
it's implementation, throughout the organization. Implementation
of these policies ensures that we consistently meet the quality
and performance requirements of customers in a timely and
cost effective manner. Loring laboratories (Alberta) Ltd.
is committed to providing total customer requirements and
satisfaction by continually improving our system through management
reviews, training, corrective and preventive action, internal
audits and WHMIS training.
Loring Labs management is dedicated to providing analytical
results validated using conscientious quality assurance and
quality control programs. Only ASTM procedures, published
standard methods, government or validated in-house methods,
are used. We are totally committed to maintaining our high
standards through the incorporation and to steadfast compliance
with ISO 17025:2005.
Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPS) are reviewed annually and revised
periodically as needed. Revision dates and summary of changes
are documented in each SOP. This Quality Assurance Manual
documents our quality system to demonstrate the company's
ability to consistently provide excellent service to our clients.
Our
QA/QC Program includes running in-house validated standards
with each batch of samples run, also duplicate samples and
blanks are included in each daily run of samples. The standard's
results have to be within the standard deviation and accuracy,
or the entire batch will require rerun.
QA/QC
FOR ASSAYING ANALYSIS
QA and QC checks: QA and QC checks are used as control
measures to maintain the validity of the test results, (i.e.
to ensure that the uncertainty of measurement does not vary
with time but is constant
and a reliable measure of the quality of the test results
provided by Loring Laboratories.
We have an internal QA/QC program to ensure the results are
within
the 95% confidence level. Loring Laboratories has registration
with ISO90000:2001 in 2009 and we are working towards ISO17025
in
certain analysis.
On each batch of samples undergoing analysis, there is a chemical
blank, a standard and a duplicate for every 20 samples.
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