CESQA : ISO 9001 Certification of the Laboratories within the University of Padua

At the end of 2001, The University of Padua has started a biannual programme aiming at the UNI EN ISO 9001 certification of the research laboratories within the University Departments. The design of activities, as well as the planning and development of the programme were entrusted to the Environmental Quality Study Centre within the University of Padua.
The prgramme, which is currently in progress, has been divided into the following operational stages:
1) Check-up visits in the structures which participate in the project
2) Basic training on ISO 9000 series of all the laboratories involved (duration of the course: 16 hours)
3) Further training on the application of the ISO 9000 standard to macro-fields (chemical-biological and engineering field) (duration of the course: 40 hours)
4) Actions for the implementation of the Quality Management Systems in single Departments.
The check-up visits and the training courses ended in the first half of 2002. Here are the participating Departments and their laboratories:

Department/Service Centre	Laboratory
Department of Chemistry	Laboratory of chromatography
"CRIBI" Service Centre	BMR Service (DNA sequence)
Department of Constructions and Transports	Laboratory of Constructions and Transports
Department of Technical Physics	Laboratory of Acoustics Laboratory of Conductivity
Department of Electrical Engineering	Laboratory of Electro-therm Laboratory of Electric Control
Department of Hydraulic, Sea, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering	Laboratory of Hydraulics
Department of Mechanical Engineering	Laboratory of Hover Machines Laboratory of Machine Building Laboratory of Hydraulic Machines Laboratory of Measurements Laboratory of Applied Mechanics
Department of Mechanical and Management Innovation	Automation Field Laboratories (Robotics, Meccatronics) Materials’ Field Laboratories (Metallography, Chemistry, Electronic Microscopy) Technological Field Laboratories (Net Shape Forming, Geometric and Industrial Metrology, Concurrent Engineering)
Department of Histology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology	Autonomous Operational Unit of Microbiology
Department of Chemical Processes in Engineering	Laboratories department of environmental chemical processes Laboratory department of industrial processes Quality Environmental Study Centre
Department of Industrial Systems’ Techniques and Management (Vicenza)	SIM1: scanning electronic microscopy, analyses with radiographic methods SIM2: metallographic analyses, hardness and micro-hardness testing SIM3: static and dynamic mechanical testing
Pharmaceutical Sciences	Laboratory of microanalyses
Neurological Sciences	Laboratory of neuro-muscular pathology
Zootechnical Sciences	Laboratory for Food Quality Control (LFQC) Laboratory of the Zootechnical Sciences Department (LAZ)

The Environmental Quality Study Centre created an E-mail address for all information you wish to request with regard to the Quality of Departments project: qualitas.dip@unipd.it