ISO/IEC 17043 support
Software designed around how accredited PT providers work.
ISO/IEC 17043 sets out what a competent proficiency testing provider must do. EqasOnline gives you the workflow and the records for the parts software can carry, so your assessment is about your scheme, not your spreadsheets.
Requirement by requirement
How EqasOnline supports each area
- Confidentiality and impartiality
- Labs appear as codes in your screens, each lab sees only its own results and anonymised peer statistics, and staff work under role-based permissions. Data security
- Design and planning of schemes
- Tests define measurands, units, result fields and plausibility ranges; rounds record dates, participants, samples and the report release date. Programs & rounds
- Homogeneity and stability of PT items
- An ISO 13528 Annex B check before dispatch; a failing batch cannot be dispatched until a remedy is recorded. Sample management
- Distribution of PT items
- Courier and tracking records, shipment notices, and receipt confirmations with the condition each sample arrived in. Sample management
- Assigned values and statistical evaluation
- One server-side engine follows ISO 13528, with a detailed evaluation report for your assessor. Results & evaluation
- Reports to participants
- Reports under your branding and document control, released on your date. Reports & certificates
- Communication with participants
- Round announcements, shipment notices, deadline reminders and reports-ready notices go out automatically. Programs & rounds
- Complaints and appeals
- Labs raise complaints and appeals against a round, with grounds and attachments. Each runs in a thread with your team and is closed with a recorded outcome and reason, and both sides are emailed as it moves.
- Follow-up of unsatisfactory performance
- An out-of-range result opens a corrective-action record. The lab documents the root cause and its corrective and preventive action, and your reviewer accepts it or returns it.
- Records
- Rounds, results, statistics and issued reports stay on record, with an append-only audit trail of changes. Data security
What stays with you
Accreditation is granted to the PT provider by an accreditation body (NABL, SANAS, UKAS or your national body), not to the software. Your management system, the competence of your staff, the choice of σpt and assigned-value approach, and the production of PT items remain your responsibility. EqasOnline helps you carry them out consistently and keeps the evidence.
One-page overview
Get the one-page overview by email.
What EqasOnline covers for a proficiency testing provider, on one page you can pass to your team.
- Rounds, test items, results, ISO 13528 statistics, reports and certificates in one system
- Participants enter results in their own portal, and implausible values are queried at entry
- An ISO 13528 Annex B homogeneity and stability check before test items ship
- Reports under your branding, versioned once issued, with an append-only audit trail
See a full proficiency testing round on EqasOnline.
In a 30-minute demo we run one full round in both the provider console and the lab portal, from item check to issued report, on your own scheme structure.