Everything Washington Biomedical Services publishes on laboratory equipment calibration in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
Use this page to find the exact laboratory equipment calibration service you need. Everything Washington Biomedical Services publishes for this area is listed below, starting with the full overview.
Calibration is the measurement step, not the repair step. A device is compared against a reference standard with documented traceability, the deviation is recorded, and the instrument is adjusted until it reads true across its working range — then the as-found and as-left values are both written down, because the as-found figure is what tells you whether anything treated on that device since the last visit was affected.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
Every calibration performed produces two numbers that matter: what the device read when we arrived, and what it read when we left. Skipping the first one makes the record useless in an audit, because it removes any way to establish whether the instrument had drifted out of tolerance during the interval it was in clinical use.
Calibration intervals are not arbitrary. They come from the manufacturer's specification, the device's history, and how hard the department runs it. An instrument that drifts twice in a row needs a shorter interval, not the same one repeated, and a technician who does not adjust the schedule is recording a problem rather than solving it.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
Every visit produces documentation an inspector can read without a translator: what was done, to what standard, by whom, and when it is next due.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
Every calibration performed produces two numbers that matter: what the device read when we arrived, and what it read when we left. Skipping the first one makes the record useless in an audit, because it removes any way to establish whether the instrument had drifted out of tolerance during the interval it was in clinical use.
Scheduling is agreed rather than imposed. Clinical operations set the window, and work that cannot fit inside it gets planned around a shutdown rather than forced into a working day.
The documentation is not administrative overhead; it is the deliverable that outlives the visit. When an inspector, an insurer or a lawyer asks what condition a device was in on a particular date, the record is the entire answer, and a facility either has it or does not.
Send the make, model and service history and you will get a scoped answer instead of a price range.
Current developments in laboratory equipment calibration, with sources for further reading.
