User Manual
National Accreditation Board for Testing and
Calibration Laboratories (NABL)
Type of LAB: Testing
Creation Date: 16th Dec, 2017
Last Updating Date: 29th Jan 2018
Version: 1.3
Table of Contents
1. Registration of CAB
2. Login by CAB
Laboratory Details
Location Details
Discipline Details
Scope of accreditation
Organization
Equipment
Reference Materials
Quality Control Activity
Enclosure List
Payment Process
1. Registration of CAB:
Open the URL [Link]
It opens registration form for different types of CABs.
For Type of CAB, there are five types of CAB, select Testing.
Enter all the details with valid mobile number and email id.
You will get OTP on your mobile number and email id. You have to
validate your mobile number and email id using OTP.
After entering OTP, your mobile number and email id will be
validated and thereafter registration can be done.
After successful registration, you will receive Username and
password on your email id.
2. Login by CAB:
Open the URL [Link]
It will redirect you to login form.
Enter the credentials you receive in your email id.
After submitting the credentials you will be redirected to change
password screen.
It is mandatory for first time user to change the password.
New password should have minimum 8 characters with at least one
special character, one number, one uppercase letter and one
lowercase letter.
After changing password, it opens a new page with button “Create
New Application”.
Click on create new application, it shows the options “Applying for”.
Select any one.
Laboratory Details:
After submitting the option, you will be redirected to Laboratory
details page.
Complete the laboratory details with all the mandatory details.
If you want to proceed further, it is necessary to fill laboratory details
first.
For category of facility, it is mandatory to select at least one facility.
For legal identity details, select and upload documents.
In Lab details, if you click Yes for “Does accreditation sought for
different locations”, it will add new tab “Location details” where you
can add multiple locations.
After saving the form, click Next and you will be redirected to new
tab.
Location Details:
In new tab location details, it shows a default location. This is the
location which user has added in laboratory details.
User can add more locations by clicking on button “Click here”.
When user clicks on Click here to add location, it opens a form for
adding location.
After adding location, it will be redirected to discipline details page.
Discipline details:
For discipline details page, select the Discipline of testing from the
dropdown.
After selecting discipline of Testing, select the Group from dropdown
which are mentioned as per relevant specific criteria. Click on add
and added values will be shown in repeater.
Note: If you are adding multiple groups, then you will have to add scope of
accreditation for all those groups.
Scope of Accreditation:
After adding Discipline Details, you will be redirected to new tab
“Scope of Accreditation”.
In this form, for location, it shows those values in dropdown which
you have added in second tab location details.
For selecting discipline, it shows those values in dropdown which you
have added in third tab Discipline Details.
Save the details and click Next.
The sub group to be filled as mentioned in relevant specific criteria.
Name of the product/ material to be tested is required to be filled,
however subgroup and product/ material may be same in certain
cases.
If type of facility selected earlier as permanent only, it will
automatically reflected in the box provided. If CAB has selected
multiple types of facilities then the box will show all types of facilities
selected. If same test is to be applied at multiple facilities, multiple
selections can be made accordingly to avoid repetitions.
Test method to be filled as follows:
<Abbreviation of standard>space<standard number>space<bracket
open Part>space<Part Number bracket close>.
For e.g. IS XXXX (Part XX).
In case of In-house SOP, it has to be filled as follows:
<SOP number>space<Issue No.>space<Issue Month>space<Issue
Date>. For e.g. SOP No. XX Issue No. XX March XX.
Finally year of publication to be selected from drop down option
for both the above cases.
Thereafter select type of range of testing from dropdown option
as Qualitative/ Quantitative/ Others.
For Qualitative: Remarks option is available for providing any
additional information viz – Visual, Grade scale, Magnification
details etc.
For Quantitative: Values to be provided for LL (Lower Limit) and UL
(Upper Limit) with SI units in respective boxes. MU (Measurement
uncertainty) to be filled along with the observed/mean value
(Observed/mean value should lie within the range of testing) at
which MU has been calculated in the respective boxes. Please be
ensured that the unit of MU and range of testing should be same.
Note: If you are adding scope of accreditation for all the locations, then you will
have to add organization, equipment reference materials and quality control
activity for all locations separately.
Important Information:
We understand that filling the scope of accreditation may appear as time
consuming but it has been consciously designed in such a manner to overcome
the issues related to scope of accreditation. The tests, test methods, Range of
testing & MU (wherever applicable) is required to be filled for each
parameter as per the designed format. This is also a one-time activity wherein
laboratory has to fill the requisite information initially and the information will
be pre-fetched in future. The laboratory is required to fill the requisite
information correctly and consciously as it an important part of accreditation. The
laboratory is held responsible for the information provided in the application
irrespective of the person who is filling the information. Any incorrect or
insufficient information provided intentionally while filling the requisite
information is treated as “Misleading/ Malpractice/ Fraud” and actions as per
NABL 216 will be initiated which may also lead to calling off assessment.
Organization:
To complete “organization” details, scope of accreditation must be
filled initially.
In organization, once you upload the relevant documents, it opens a
separate section for filling employee details.
Fill the employee details as required.
In case of Quality Manager, 4 days training course on “Laboratory
Management system & internal auditing as per ISO/IEC 17025: 2005”
is mandatory and training certificate for the same to be uploaded.
Note: While adding employee details, it is mandatory to add details for all types
of employees and for all locations..
Equipment:
After completing the organization details, click on equipment and
enter all the details as required.
UID of equipment: Unique Identification number generated by the
laboratory on its own for each & every equipment individually under
scope of accreditation.
If the equipment is calibrated externally, the name of calibration
agency along with the location to be specified in the box provided.
If the equipment is calibrated in-house, the traceability details of the
master equipment/ reference standard used for calibration to be
specified in the box provided.
Reference Material:
After completing the equipment details, click on “Next” tab.
It opens the form for reference materials.
Quality control Activity:
After completing the details of reference materials, click on “Next”
tab.
It opens the form for quality control activity.
Enclosure List:
When whole form is completed, click on enclosure list.
If there is any detail which is missing, then it will be shown under
pendency’s.
If it meets with all the details, then it will show green tick in front of
it under availability column.
To add the details which are pending, click on icon under pendency,
it opens a pop up.
It opens a pop window with “click here” button, Click on that button
and completes the pending points.
When whole form is complete, it will show green tick in front of it
and declaration form will be visible with Terms and conditions.
There is also preview report button. Clicking on that button shows
the report.
After completing all the information/ previewing the application click
“Proceed to payment”. It will ask password for submission of
application. Once the password entered by the user the application
will be finally submitted. After final submission, it shows View report
button. Clicking on it opens the preview from where you can
download the form also.
Payment Process:
At the bottom of Terms and conditions it shows Proceed to payment
option.
After clicking on Proceed to payment, it shows the payment details.
After clicking on proceed, it will redirect to the CC payment gateway.
On Payment gateway, user can select any type of card or can pay via
different payment options like Pay tm, Wallet, etc.
After making payment, the application will be redirected to the
declaration of the form.
At the bottom, it shows submit button. Click on submit button and it
will ask for password.
Once correct password is inputted, the application is submitted
successfully.
General Note:
Click on “Save draft” option given at all places to remain in the same
tab which enables the user to fill the complete details in the
respective tab at the same time. For e.g.: In case of equipment, fill
the details on one equipment as required. Now, if the details of
second equipment needs to be filled, then click on “Save draft”
option to continue filling the details of second equipment and so on.
Click on “Next” option given at all the places enables the user to go
to another tab. The user is required to click on “Next” tab after
completing all the required details in that particular section.
