ISO/IEC 17025:2017: every control, and what you already have

73 controls 189 frameworks share controls with it International verified against its source document

Every control below is one this framework asks for. The right hand column counts how many other frameworks in our corpus carry the same control, which is the difference between doing this work once and doing it again for the next standard.

ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Laboratory Competence Evidence & Implementation Kit

73 controls is the documentation set somebody has to write. This is that set, already written: an adopt-ready artifact for every control in policy and procedure text you edit rather than draft, and the evidence checklist an auditor asks for against each.

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What you already have

Frameworks whose controls overlap this one, most first. If you run any of them, the count is roughly what you have already evidenced.

If you run	Shared controls
ISO/IEC 17025:2017	18	measure it →
ISO 15189:2022	13	measure it →
ISO 37301	6	measure it →
IEC 62304:2015 Medical Device Software Lifecycle Processes	5	measure it →
ISO 19011	5	measure it →
ISO 41001:2018	5	measure it →
ISO 56002	5	measure it →
ISO/IEC 27003:2017	5	measure it →
PIC/S Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice for Medicinal Products	5	measure it →
ISO 27002:2022	4	measure it →
ISO 27018	4	measure it →
ISO 27018:2019	4	measure it →

Every control

Code	Control	Also in
`ISO-17025-4.1`	Impartiality	0
`ISO-17025-4.2`	Confidentiality	4
`ISO-17025-5.1`	Legal entity	135
`ISO-17025-5.2`	Management structure	0
`ISO-17025-5.3`	Range of laboratory activities	0
`ISO-17025-5.4`	Personnel for the management system	135
`ISO-17025-5.5`	Independence of quality functions	1
`ISO-17025-6.2`	Personnel	1
`ISO-17025-6.3`	Facilities and environmental conditions	0
`ISO-17025-6.4`	Equipment	2
`ISO-17025-6.5`	Metrological traceability	10
`ISO-17025-6.6`	Externally provided products and services	0
`ISO-17025-7.1`	Review of requests, tenders and contracts	0
`ISO-17025-7.10`	Nonconforming work	0
`ISO-17025-7.11`	Control of data and information management	0
`ISO-17025-7.2`	Selection, verification and validation of methods	0
`ISO-17025-7.3`	Sampling	0
`ISO-17025-7.4`	Handling of test or calibration items	0
`ISO-17025-7.5`	Technical records	0
`ISO-17025-7.6`	Evaluation of measurement uncertainty	0
`ISO-17025-7.7`	Ensuring the validity of results	0
`ISO-17025-7.8`	Reporting of results	0
`ISO-17025-7.9`	Complaints	0
`ISO-17025-8.1`	Options	36
`ISO-17025-8.2`	Management system documentation	2
`ISO-17025-8.3`	Control of management system documents	0
`ISO-17025-8.4`	Control of records	2
`ISO-17025-8.5`	Actions to address risks and opportunities	10
`ISO-17025-8.6`	Improvement	1
`ISO-17025-8.7`	Corrective actions	37
`ISO-17025-8.8`	Internal audits	0
`ISO-17025-8.9`	Management reviews	1
`4.1`	Impartiality	0
`4.2`	Confidentiality	12
`5`	Structural requirements	0
`6.2`	Personnel	1
`6.3`	Facilities and environmental conditions	2
`6.4`	Equipment	2
`6.5`	Metrological traceability	1
`6.6`	Externally provided products and services	2
`7.1`	Review of requests, tenders and contracts	1
`7.10`	Nonconforming work	2
`7.11`	Control of data and information management	2
`7.2`	Selection, verification and validation of methods	1
`7.2.1`	Selection and verification of methods	1
`7.2.2`	Validation of methods	2
`7.3`	Sampling	0
`7.4`	Handling of test or calibration items	1
`7.5`	Technical records	1
`7.6`	Evaluation of measurement uncertainty	3
`7.7`	Ensuring the validity of results	1
`7.8`	Reporting of results	4
`7.8.2`	Common requirements for reports (test, calibration or sampling)	0
`7.8.3`	Specific requirements for test reports	0
`7.8.4`	Specific requirements for calibration certificates	0
`7.8.5`	Reporting sampling: specific requirements	0
`7.8.6`	Reporting statements of conformity	3
`7.8.7`	Reporting opinions and interpretations	3
`7.8.8`	Amendments to reports	0
`7.9`	Complaints	0
`8.1`	Options	0
`8.1.2`	Option A	0
`8.1.3`	Option B	0
`8.2`	Management system documentation (Option A)	4
`8.3`	Control of management system documents (Option A)	0
`8.4`	Control of records (Option A)	5
`8.5`	Actions to address risks and opportunities (Option A)	24
`8.6`	Improvement (Option A)	7
`8.7`	Corrective actions (Option A)	1
`8.8`	Internal audits (Option A)	2
`8.9`	Management reviews (Option A)	2
`Annex A`	Metrological traceability (informative)	0
`Annex B`	Management system options (informative)	0

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What an auditor will ask you to produce

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Internal audit plan including VPs
Audit reports with findings and management responses
External assurance statement where applicable
Internal audit programme
Auditor competence records
Audit reports and findings
Corrective action procedure
CAPA tracker with root cause and effectiveness
Root cause analysis templates
Trend analysis of nonconformities

How programmes fail on this

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Findings closed without verification named by 5 frameworks
Root cause analysis superficial named by 3 frameworks
Auditors not independent of audited area named by 3 frameworks

What this page is

A control-level reference for ISO/IEC 17025:2017, drawn from our framework corpus. Control codes and titles are references to the standard, not reproductions of it. The overlap counts and the auditor artefacts are our own work and are the part you will not find elsewhere.

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