Course detail

System of Quality Assurance and ISO Standards

FCH-BC_ISOAcad. year: 2025/2026

This course is to acquaint students with the basic principles and applications of quality systems ISO standards.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Are not required.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Graded credit-course unit will be given on the base of elaboration of semester work and its succesfull defence.
Elaboration of seminar project on given topic from the problematic of quality systems
Presentation of this work and its succsesfull defence - quality manual

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with quality systems as currently imposed by the applicable ISO standards. Emphasis is placed on the application of ISO standards in the field of services, especially in the chemical laboratory.
Acquisition of knowledge sufficient for implementation of quality systems in analytical laboratories and for the use of ISO norms in the field of quality and also in the field of determination of selected analytes.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

https://seznam.normy.biz (CS)
Nenadál, J. a kol. Management kvality pro 21. století. Management press 2018. ISBN: 978-80-7261-561-2 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BKCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BKCP_ECHBM Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BKCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    specialization CHPL , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization PCH , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization BT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BKCP_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization PCH , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization BT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization CHPL , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BPCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BPCP_ECHBM Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BPCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    specialization CHPL , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization PCH , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization BT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme BPCP_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization CHPL , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization PCH , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    specialization BT , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Block 1:
General aspects of quality of products and services, quality attributes, procedural approaches, customer, responsibility for product, certification of products, laws related to quality assurance systems in the Czech Republic and in the European Union, the processes of international standardisation.
Block 2:
The policy and system of quality assurance in chemical laboratories, the items of quality system in testing laboratories, requirements for technical capability, accreditation in testing laboratories, evaluation criteria and related rules.
Block 3:
Methods of quality management in laboratory; yield, blank tests, repeatability and regulatory diagrams, documentation and validation of methods, operation characteristics, order of analyses, calibration procedures, reference materials, expression of uncertainties.
Block 4:
Documantation of QA/QC system. Quality manual, Standard operation procedure. Quality Plan, Quality Policy. Internal and external audit. Control of nonconforming product and service.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer