PHED chemists, lab assistants set to get NABL certificates

Jaipur: The last batch of chemists and laboratory assistants of the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) is all set to get certificates from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) during a two-day training workshop in city. It means, besides all 33 laboratories of PHED across the state, all the 147 chemists and laboratory assistants of PHED would be NABL certified. “In 2016, a PHED lab in Rajasthan got NABL certified and gradually all the 32 laboratories in the districts and the state laboratory in Jaipur got NABL accreditation. However, to handle a NABL certified lab chemists and laboratory assistants also needs to undergo a certification programme. Our 115 chemists and laboratory assistants had already received this certificate. Remaining, 32 would get certified during the two-day programme,” HS Devenda, chief chemist of PHED, told TOI.Officials stated, broadly, PHED chemists and laboratory assistants carry out three types of jobs – technical managements, quality control and quality management. Now, those who have received the mandatory NABL certificate will be allowed only to carry out jobs related only to technical managements in a NABL certified lab.