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Quality Management Section

About the Section

Accreditation Certificates (Click to magnify) The Section provides comprehensive quality and environmental management to the Division of the Government Laboratory as well as organizes a wide range of inter-laboratory comparison programmes.

Responsibilities

The key roles of the Section are to maintain the quality management and environmental management systems of the Division in accordance with the requirements stipulated in ISO 17025 and ISO 14001 respectively in order to ensure the provision of highest attainable quality analytical and advisory services to our clients. The core responsibilities include:

1. To overview the implementation and planning of the quality and environmental systems
2. To establish the Quality Assurance Working Group and the Environmental Management System Working Group to uphold quality matters and to conduct annual internal audit within the Division
3. To arrange regularly training on the quality and environmental systems, and internal auditing
4. To coordinate intra-laboratory testing programmes to all sections for verifying their testing capabilities
5. To provide central calibration services of testing instruments

Being an accredited proficiency testing scheme provider, the Section is also active in organizing international and regional inter-laboratory comparisons aiming at establishing competence of the laboratories via comparability and traceability. Some recent completed programmes are as follows:

Sample used in the APLAC T057 PT Programme

Key Personnel

Senior Chemist: Dr. T T Kam
(Tel. No.: 2762-3728 E-mail : ttkam@govtlab.gov.hk)

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