Quality

As an independent, third-party testing facility, we adhere to the highest testing lab (ISO 17025), quality (ISO 9001), environmental (ISO 14001), and occupational health and safety (ISO 45001) management standards.

Our Quality Policy is to continually improve all products and services to satisfy customer needs and to do so efficiently while meeting or exceeding the requirements of good laboratory practice, sound engineering principles, applicable standards, statutes and regulations.

As employees, we are collectively responsible for implementing our policies and procedures while maintaining impartiality, confidentiality and proficiency in delivering our products and services.

ISO 9001:2015

Powertech’s quality management system has been registered to ISO 9001 since 1997. The registration covers all aspects of Powertech’s products and services. Our registrar is SAI Global. View our certificate of registration.

ISO 9001:2015 Certificate→

ISO/IEC 17025:2017

Powertech is an accredited laboratory in the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) Accreditation Program for Testing and Calibration of Laboratories. We continuously add tests to this program to elevate our high standard in the testing area. The current scope of accreditation is published and accessible directly through this link. View our certificate of accreditation.

ISO 17025 Certificate→

BC MOE EDQA

Powertech is a qualified laboratory under the BC Ministry of Environment’s Environmental Data Quality Assurance (EDQA) Regulation. We are registered with the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) as participating in their proficiency testing program. Our current scope of proficiency testing is published in the EDQA directory at http://www.nrs.gov.bc.ca/qualified-labs/#3460.