In a case of a company or a researcher who has developed an analysis method, for instance, and wants to get it publicized as an ISO standard method, how can this be done?
Internationally they have increased the requirements for the adoption of new methods. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to prove reliability, importance and benefit of the method. Subjecting it to a broad process of testing between laboratories and document their performance characteristics. The objective will be a validation prior to use to check that the method works properly. The rule governing this is the ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, which the tecnico-metodologica basis for the accreditation of laboratories carrying out analysis
First you should try to convince your national Standard organization (ASTM) on the urgent need and benefit of your method. If the impact of the new method is of international concern, ASTM will contact the ISO (headquarter Geneva) to work out an ISO method. As a former member of a German DIN committee the procedure was then, to collect a group of interested researchers / institutions / national standardization bodies to found an international ISO committee to create a new ISO method. By this, interlaboratory comparison actions a normally a must
ISO 9000 (There are newer standards) is an international standard that many companies use to ensure that their quality assurance system is in place and effective. Conformance to the ISO standard is said to guarantee that a company delivers quality products and services. To follow the ISO standard, a company's management team decides quality assurance policies and objectives. Next, the company or an external consultant formally writes down the company's policies and requirements and how the staff can implement the quality assurance system. Once this guideline is in place and the quality assurance procedures are implemented, an outside assessor examines the company's quality assurance system to make sure it complies with the ISO standard. A detailed report describes the parts of the standard the company missed, and the company agrees to correct any problems within a specific time. Once the problems are corrected, the company is certified as in conformance with the standard.
The above mentioned explanation is correct. that standard is ISO/IEC 17027:2005.It is better to study this stadarization system en get it implemented to the laboratory en get ur analytical methods accrediated.
Internationally they have increased the requirements for the adoption of new methods. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to prove reliability, importance and benefit of the method. Subjecting it to a broad process of testing between laboratories and document their performance characteristics. The objective will be a validation prior to use to check that the method works properly. The rule governing this is the ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, which the tecnico-metodologica basis for the accreditation of laboratories carrying out analysis
There are different international standardization organizations, e.g. ISO, ASTM or CEN. One first needs to decide, which standard one want to make: AN ISO standard, CEN standard, ASTM standard etc. Please note that the se organisations are independent, so ASTM will not contact ISO.
I only know the procedure for ISO standards: Members of ISO are the national standardisation organizations. If you want to get a method standardized, you need to do the following:
1) Check to which technical committee you want to submit the standard (see http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/list_of_iso_technical_committees.htm for a list of technical committees).
2) Select a national committee that is member of this technical committee (the obvious choice would be your own national standardisation body, bot others can do as well).
3) Prepare a New Work Item Proposal (NWIP), in which you explain why this new standard is needed and what work has already been done. Here you also need to specify a project leader (preferably yourself).
4) The members of the Technical Committee will vote on whether to accept or reject the NWIP. If it is accepted, the national standardisation bodies will nominate technical experts to discuss and work on that standard.
5) The draft standard will then be voted upon by the Committee and twice by all ISO members. After each vote, comments are collected that need to be implemented.