Quality Management Section
About the Section
The Section provides comprehensive quality and environmental management support to the Analytical & Advisory Services Division (“the Division”) of the Government Laboratory.
Responsibilities
To provide quality analytical and advisory services to our clients, the Section upholds the quality management system and environmental management system of the Division in accordance with the requirements stipulated in ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 14001, respectively. The core responsibilities include:
- overseeing the planning and implementation of the quality management system and environmental management system of the Division;
- conducting regular meetings with members of the Quality Assurance Working Group and Environmental Management System Working Group to ensure unified implementation of quality assurance and environmental policies, respectively, across the Division;
- coordinating with internal and/or external auditors to conduct various audit programmes within the Division;
- arranging trainings for staff related to quality management system and environmental management system, as well as their associated internal audit courses;
- coordinating small inter-laboratory comparisons and quality check sample testing programme for the Division; and
- providing centralised calibration and performance-check services of various instruments within the Division.