COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and an up-to-date overview of measurement traceability, testing and data validation. It covers the measurement principles and protocols for traceability in chemical analysis; the metrological traceability in laboratory; the traceability and analytical chemistry; the interlaboratory comparisons that can provide traceability; the total allowable error via metrological traceability to uncertainty of measurement of the unbiased result; the traceability in physical measurements and how to achieve international comparability for chemical measurements; and the key elements of traceability in chemical measurement.
Further, the course will also discuss the link to the SI via primary direct methods; the role of reference materials, measurement assurance concept in calibration; the traceability at NBS/NIST and the lifetime of the traceability chain in chemical measurement; the proficiency evaluation as a traceability link in chemical metrology; achieving traceability in chemical measurement; the traceability issues in measurement; and the implementation of traceability.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the improvements in efficiency of production and traceability for certification of reference materials; the traceability of measurement results of the effective acquisition time in gamma ray spectrometry implemented by the pulser method; the benefits of the implementation of a metrological structure for water analyses; the validation steps for traceability of linear calibrated chemical measurements; differentiate the traceability and uncertainty including their role in interlaboratory; the traceable property values, primary reference materials, traceability chain for gas composition, traceability to units and traceability without uncertainty; the role of reference materials in analytical chemistry; the ISO/IEC 17025 traceability requirements; and disseminating traceability in chemical measurement.