📋 Schema Card
- Standard: ISO/IEC 17043
- Target Audience: Providers of proficiency testing schemes.
- Core Value: Establishes a baseline for evaluating competence across all types of proficiency testing activities.
Scheme Overview
These requirements are intended to be general for all types of proficiency testing schemes, and they can be used as a basis for specific technical requirements for particular fields of application. These requirements can also be used as a guide to evaluating the competence of providers of proficiency testing schemes.
Work Process
1. Discover & Plan
Assessors and specialists outline the proficiency testing schemes, scope, targets, and expected statistical parameters.
2. Organize
Coordinate inter-laboratory comparisons, prepare homogenous test items, and establish secure dispatch protocols.
3. Build & Deploy
Distribute samples to participating laboratories, compile response data, and conduct robust statistical analysis.
4. Launch
Issue standard performance scorecards, provide final evaluations, and guide corrective action routines.