How to Audit QC Chemical Laboratories
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Improving Your Auditing Skills, The How To Audit Series
Dates:
Tuesday 02 to Wednesday 03 June 2025
Venue:
Renaissance Manchester City Centre Hotel, Manchester, UK
Cost:
£1470.00 excl. VAT or £1764.00 incl. VAT
(2nd delegate bookings from the same company and same site will receive a 20% discount on the course fee)
Type: Pharmaceutical
About this course
This pharmaceutical training course is designed to provide existing auditors with the necessary technical detail to enable them to effectively audit a Quality Control (QC) chemical laboratory to ensure that both EU and FDA GMP requirements are met. It is ideal for delegates who have either previously attended NSF-DBA’s IRCA certified Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems Auditor/Lead Auditor course or who already have a good understanding of the basic principles and practices of auditing and wish to expand their technical understanding of good QC laboratory practice. The course can also contribute to registered Auditors’ and Lead Auditors’ professional requirement for continued professional development (CPD).
This pharmaceutical training course will also be ideal for personnel who work within a QC chemical laboratory and who wish to learn how to conduct comprehensive self-inspections.
What You Will Learn
- Why it is important to audit QC laboratories
- How to plan QC laboratory audits
- The critical areas to focus on during the audit of a QC laboratory
- How to classify QC laboratory audit observations
- To develop an audit aide-mémoire for auditing QC laboratories
Course outline
- Auditing QC laboratory quality systems
- Laboratory audit planning
- Auditing laboratory documentation
- Requirements for sampling and sample management
- Premises and equipment expectations
- Classifying QC laboratory audit observations
- Auditing analytical method validation and transfer
- Auditing chromatography
- Auditing OOS and OOT procedures
- Developing a QC laboratory audit aide-mémoire
Why not bring your problems for discussion?
The course offers an ideal opportunity to speak to experienced tutors and to delegates who are in similar roles.
Our courses are planned to inform you and also to enable you to gain answers to your specific queries via debate, group work sessions and a panel discussion.
Venue
Renaissance Manchester City Centre Hotel, Manchester, UK
Located in one of the most exciting cities in UK, the 4 star Renaissance Manchester Hotel is at the heart of Manchester’s entertainment quarter. The hotel features one of the largest conference venues in the city which also provides wireless internet access.
The hotel offers spacious bedrooms with air conditioning, lounge area, excellent workspace and WIFI access.
Hotel Accommodation
- Online early booking offer – we have negotiated a discounted bed and breakfast rate including free wi-fi.
- To take advantage of this offer, you must book via a special weblink, details of which are provided under the ‘Hotel Bookings’ section at the bottom of this page.
- This offer is only available until four weeks before the course start date, after which point the hotel cannot guarantee room or rate availability.
- If you need any help or guidance with the accommodation booking process, please contact our course administration team.
- Your account with the hotel should be settled at check-out.
- Any charges made by the hotel as a result of you not taking up your reservation for any reason will remain your responsibility, therefore please ensure you are aware of the hotel’s cancellation policy.
Venue Address and Contact Details
Renaissance Manchester City Centre Hotel
Blackfriars Street
Manchester
M3 2EQ
England
Tel: +44 (0) 1618 316 000
Fax: +44 (0) 1618 353 077
www.marriott.co.uk
Hotel Bookings
If you would like to benefit from our specially negotiated Bed and Breakfast rate with the hotel, please book your accommodation following this link
This offer is only available until four weeks before the course start date, after which point the hotel cannot guarantee room or rate availability.
Hotel Bookings
If you would like to benefit from our specially negotiated Bed and Breakfast rate with the hotel, please book your accommodation following this link
This offer is only available until four weeks before the course start date, after which point the hotel cannot guarantee room or rate availability.
Tutors
We believe that our team of experts are the best available. Not only have they got years of experience in the industry, but they are committed to tutoring and helping those inside the industry to improve and raise the standards. We understand that you attend courses to learn about the latest regulations and to get your questions answered.
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What you've said
“Always good to have a summary of ‘points’ after each section to recap, eg methods/summary/pre/acc/COD/logs, etc. Content of course and topics excellent, provoking thoughts on many other aspects of lab, will approach many subjects with an ‘auditor’s hat’ from now on. Scenarios excellent – learning tool, very appropriate.”
Olivia Fitzgerald, Servier (Ireland) Industries, Republic of Ireland
“Learnt a lot about validation.”
Sarah Rothwell, Novartis Grimsby, UK
“Very informative and friendly course. I found it very beneficial and great start to a new compliance job.”
Tamara Alani, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
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