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Title
Describe quality systems for a dairy industry laboratory
Level
4
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to, in a dairy
industry laboratory: describe quality objectives, and proficiency
and legislative programmes; define the audit requirements;
describe documentation processes, releasing of results, test
method procedures, uncertainty of measurement, and
corrective and preventative action systems.
Classification
Dairy Manufacturing > Dairy Laboratory Methodology
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Performance must be demonstrated and assessed in accordance with organisational
requirements.
2
Organisational requirements refers to instructions to staff on policy and procedures
(including the application of legislation to work site situations) which are formally
documented or generally accepted at the work site. This may include legislation;
industry standards and methods; national and international standards and methods;
standards and methods published in internationally recognised reputable texts;
customer/organisation developed methods, standard operating procedures,
specifications, manuals, and manufacturer’s information.
3
The legislation and standards relevant to this unit standard may include but are not
limited to – Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Animal Products Act 1999;
Animal Products (Dairy) Regulations 2005; ISO/IEC 17025:1999 General
requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories (NZS
ISO/IEC).
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe quality objectives of a dairy industry laboratory.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Quality objectives are described in terms of quality concepts.
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may include but is not limited to – fitness for purpose, continuous
improvement, customers/clients expectations.
Outcome 2
Describe proficiency and legislative programmes specific to dairy industry laboratories.
Range
inter-laboratory comparison programmes (ILCP’s), product safety programmes.
Evidence requirements
2.1
The purpose of proficiency and legislative programmes is described in terms of
meeting the quality objectives.
2.2
The procedures of proficiency and legislative programmes are described in
terms of meeting the quality objectives.
2.3
The management of proficiency and legislative programmes is described in
terms of meeting the quality objectives.
Range
may include but is not limited to – reporting requirements, nonconformance action, trend monitoring.
Outcome 3
Define the audit requirements for a dairy industry laboratory.
Range
external, internal.
Evidence requirements
3.1
The roles and responsibilities of internal and external auditors are described.
3.2
The role and responsibilities of employees to support accreditation are
described.
Outcome 4
Describe dairy industry laboratory documentation processes.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Description identifies how documentation is controlled.
Range
4.2
may include but is not limited to – document authorisation,
document identification, revision status, control of issue and
location, distribution, storage and retention of records.
The purpose and procedure of various types of documents are identified.
Range
may include but is not limited to – records, reports, specifications,
worksheets, forms, manuals.
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4.3
Description identifies documentation required for analysis, and identifies
procedure for analysis.
Range
4.4
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may include but is not limited to – calculation and transcription
check, whether results are within acceptable limits.
Description outlines procedures for releasing results, including appropriate
authorisation.
Outcome 5
Describe selection, validation and maintenance of test methods.
Evidence requirements
5.1
The description outlines selection of test methods.
5.2
The description outlines validation procedures for test methods.
Range
5.3
The description outlines the use of quality control procedures for test methods.
Range
5.4
may include but is not limited to – reference materials, interlaboratory comparisons, in-house validation.
may include but is not limited to – reference samples, blanks,
duplicates, trends, charts.
The description outlines identification and action of any non-conformance
result(s).
Outcome 6
Describe the concept of uncertainty of measurement methods.
Evidence requirements
6.1
The description outlines the concept of uncertainty in measurement.
6.2
The description outlines personnel responsible for documenting and assessing
uncertainty of measurement.
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Outcome 7
Describe corrective action and preventative action systems.
Evidence requirements
7.1
The description outlines laboratory procedures for preventative actions and
corrective actions.
may include but is not limited to – lodging, recording, investigating,
resolving, implementing, reporting, reviewing, notifying relevant
parties, monitoring.
Range
7.2
The description outlines the role of laboratory personnel.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28620
This unit standard replaced unit standard 8961.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
16 December 2005
31 December 2017
Review
2
18 June 2015
31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0022
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
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to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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