N09: Auditing, Traceability, and Auditing of Traceability – Full Day
- Start Date : 5 February, 2026
- Start Time : 8:00am
- End Date : 5 February, 2026
- End Time : 5:00pm
- Address : Garden 3, N Tower
No Schedule
Abstract
This full day tutorial will cover the fundamentals of internal auditing based on the ISO 19011:2018 Guidelines for auditing management systems standard. The course will also include the applicable requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, so you can ensure that you have a solid audit program in place that complies with your accreditation body and/or customer requirements. The course will start with general auditing principles and will cover critical auditing elements such as audit planning, preparation, conduct, key auditor attributes, audit techniques, documentation of audit findings, and audit closing activities.
A critical element in the operation of every laboratory is metrological traceability. This course will delve deeper into the specifics of how to appropriately audit metrological traceability and the associated requirements of the ISO standards, customer requirements, and/or the requirements of your accreditation body. The tutorial will define what metrological traceability is, what requirements need to be considered, and how you specifically audit your laboratory to ensure you have appropriate metrological traceability. Without metrological traceability, you can’t have confidence in your measurement results. You can’t just rely on a statement that results are traceability to the international system of units (SI) as your means of auditing metrological traceability. This course will help you to confirm that you have appropriately established metrological traceability to support the results that are provided to your customers.
The tutorial will include instruction, group exercises, and group discussions.
Learning Objectives:
- List at least two reasons for performing an internal audit
- Describe at least five attributes of an effective auditor
- Describe the internal audit planning and process
- Identify objective evidence
- Explain the concepts of metrological traceability
- Compare calibration certificates against requirements of ISO/IEC 17025
- Use auditing tools to demonstrate the chain of traceabiliy
Rob Knake
Rob Knake is currently the Program Manager for NIST NVLAP covering the Calibration and Acoustic Testing Laboratory Accreditation Programs.
He previously was the Global Compliance Manager for JLG Industries where he was responsible for maintenance of the quality management system, management of the internal/external audit programs, training on QMS principles, and other various activities related to ISO 9001 compliance.
Prior to joining JLG, Rob was the Technical Manager at A2LA and oversaw various accreditation schemes including Calibration, Proficiency Testing Providers, and Reference Material Producers.
He also serves as an evaluator for the Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation and the Inter American Accreditation Cooperation to perform peer evaluations of accreditation bodies to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17011.
Rob has a B.S. degree in Industrial Management as well as an A.E. in Chemical Engineering Technology.
Both degrees were obtained from Michigan Technological University located in Houghton, MI.
Jeffrey Guerrieri
Jeff Guerrieri received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University in 1986. He is currently a Program Manager for the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) in the Calibration Laboratories Accreditation Program. He has worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1986. Before transferring to NVLAP in 2020 he worked in what is now the Radio Frequency Technology Division. Starting as an antenna measurements engineer, then Project Lead for the Antenna Calibration Service and manager of the lab quality system. He was also responsible for the implementation of new antenna measurement facilities and techniques, and finally RF Fields Group Leader. Jeff received the Department of Commerce Bronze medal in 2009 for creating the World’s first extrapolation range for measuring the on-axis gain and polarization of antennas for frequencies from 50 GHz to 110 GHz. He also received the Department of Commerce Gold medal in 2007 for creating and implementing the rigorous testing protocols and benchmarks needed to ensure the security and integrity of the of the new U.S. ePassport, and the Department of Commerce Bronze medal in 2009 for the analysis and certification of the U.S. Passport Card architecture resulting in a mitigation of security threats and privacy concerns. In 2016 he received the Department of Commerce Silver Medal for development of the world’s first “Configurable Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna” (CROMMA) Facility. Jeff is a member of the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Standards Committee and participated on the working groups for standards 149, 145, and 1720. He is a member of the National Conference on Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI). He is an Antenna Measurements Techniques Association (AMTA) Fellow and recipient of the AMTA Distinguished Service Award.