Chemical reagent preparation, standardisation and management

Analysts and technicians who prepare reagents and volumetric solutions, and supervisors who review preparation records.

Assumes basic solution chemistry and builds from there into the control and traceability side.

The syllabus below is the standard shape of the course. It is adjusted to the matrices, methods and instruments you actually run, which is agreed before delivery rather than discovered on the day.

• Preparation

  Concentration conventions, purity and water-content corrections, grade selection

• Water

  Grades of laboratory water and where the wrong grade quietly changes a result

• Standardisation

  Primary standards, titrant standardisation and restandardisation intervals

• Labelling

  Identity, concentration, preparer, date, expiry, and traceability to the preparation record

• Stability

  Assigning expiry from evidence rather than convention, and storage conditions

• Records

  Linking a result back to the specific batch of reagent that produced it

Courses are written around what a delegate can do afterwards, not what was presented to them. These are the outcomes this one is built to produce.

1. 01Prepare and record a solution so it is traceable back to the materials it came from.
2. 02Standardise a titrant against a primary standard and set a restandardisation interval.
3. 03Assign an expiry date you can justify rather than one that was always used.
4. 04Trace a suspect result back to the reagent batch involved.

The traceability gap here is the one that surfaces during an investigation: a result is questioned, and the laboratory cannot say which batch of titrant produced it because the label carried a date but no link to a preparation record.

Expiry dates set by convention are the other. Six months on everything is not a stability assessment, and it is both wrong and wasteful in different directions for different reagents.

Delivered over 1 day, at your site or at the laboratory, in English or Arabic. Sessions are built around real records, real data and real failures rather than slides of clause numbers, and the people delivering them spend the rest of the week doing the thing being taught.

Group size is agreed in advance — practical sessions are capped so that everyone works rather than watches. An attendance certificate is issued to each delegate on completion.

Ask about any subject not listed here. If it is not something we teach well, we will say so rather than build it for the sake of the booking.