Quality Assurance and Control
Accreditation
The ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation ensures international standards are maintained in the laboratories’ procedures, methodology, validation, QA/QC, reporting and record keeping. National Association of Testing Authorities Australia (NATA) has accredited Genalysis Laboratory Services Pty Ltd, following demonstration of its technical competence, to operate in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 which includes the management requirements of ISO 9001:2000. This facility is accredited in the field of Chemical Testing for the tests, calibrations and measurements shown in the Scope of Accreditation issued by NATA (Accreditation No. 3244).
Genalysis also participates in a number of regular international, national and internal proficiency round robins and client specific proficiency programs.
Analysis Quality Control
Certified Reference Materials and/or in house controls, blanks, splits and replicates are analysed with each batch of samples. These quality control results are reported along with the sample values in the final report. Prices include the reporting of all QC data except where more than 10% repeats are considered necessary in cases such as poor reproducibility due to particulate gold, in which case additional repeats may be charged for.
At Genalysis we take quality seriously. Our quality programme includes reference materials which should ideally be grade and matrix matched as far as possible. We have a diverse number of reference materials at our disposal which can be used in the QC programme. To ensure that the data are traceable to appropriate reference materials, please tell us something about the samples. This could include the principal elements of interest, the expected grades and the type of mineralisation expected (if any). For example “sandstone hosted uranium with grades up to 1000pppm uranium” will ensure that grade appropriate matrix matched U-Mo-As reference materials are selected. Another example may include “ unmineralized soil looking for possible Pb, As contamination” will ensure that low grade soil standard are included in the job.
Where the concentration of an element exceeds the capacity of the original method selected, then re-analysis will be required using a more appropriate digestion technique and analytical finish at the client’s expense.
Reporting
In addition to mailed hard-copy reports, electronic data transfer via email is available. We recommend that data to be transmitted by email be encrypted for security purposes. Standard data formats available include CSV, Excel, Text and SIF. Other non-standard formats and other services may be available upon request.
Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
A sophisticated Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is in place for sample tracking, scheduling, quality control and electronic reporting .
Labtrack V2
Responding to Minerals industry needs, Intertek Genalysis have further developed their "LabTrak" system to enable customers to view the status of submitted samples and download analytical results online which will go live on Friday the 14th January 2011.
LabTrak provides tools for tracking samples through the laboratory, viewing and downloading analytical data, generating customised quality control reports and managing access rights. All designed to provide information that is timely, accurate, accessible and secure.
The latest release of LabTrak delivers current and historical analytical report data in the customers preferred file format from a secure online web portal.
Features include;
- Track job status online
- Flexible search function
- Access results securely anywhere with web access
- Easily retrieve historical data
- View preliminary and final report data online
- Secure (SSL) data transactions
- Download data in the customers preferred file format
- Bypass email attachment filters
- Assess laboratory quality via online control charting tools
- Identify job status with the click of a mouse
- Online sample registration
- User defined security administration
- Browser friendly with easy navigation
