Welcome to the HN Proficiency Testing web site.
This web site contains information about HN Proficiency Testing, Inc. and the services we offer.
How do you choose a proficiency testing provider? We have compiled a list of questions for you to use, when you try to decide. All our tests are covered by our A2LA scope of accreditation.
We have adjusted our pricing effective 1/1-2008 for the first time in 2 years to reflect our raising cost. This will allow us to maintain our level of service.
Our address has changed effective 12/1/2008. See our contact page.
The paper "Experience Gained from Offering Accredited 3rd Party Proficiency Testing" was presented at the 2004 NCSLI Workshop & Symposium. The paper "Determining Consensus Values in Interlaboratory Comparisons and Proficiency Testing" by Henrik S. Nielsen won the "Best Paper on Theoretical Metrology" award at the 2003 NCSLI Workshop & Symposium.
Accreditation bodies generally require laboratories to develop a plan for how they intend to live up to the proficiency testing requirements. To help laboratories develop a plan, we have developed our on-line proficiency test planning tool. You can use it to generate and print a plan that you can present to your assessor and accreditation body. We offer an incentive after the first test, if you enter and follow a plan that contains a test at least once every six months. The incentive is a 10% discount on the 2nd test, 15% on the 3rd test and 20% on subsequent tests, if you set up a plan and participate in a test at least every 6 months.
We have entered into a marketing alliance with MeasurePT, the former Quametec Proficiency Testing Services. The availability page now also gives you access to MeasurePT's tests and you can include MeasurePT tests in your proficiency test plan and get the planned proficiency discount on tests both from HN Proficiency Testing and from MeasurePT.
You can also e-mail or fax us your scope and we will help you develop a plan.
We require all participants to fill out a confidentiality agreement, to keep our reference values confidential and to allow us to ship packages directly from participant to participant. The agreement also binds us to keep your participation confidential, unless you tell us otherwise. You will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to read and print the agreement and other PDF documents on this site.
We are A2LA accredited. You can download our scope from the A2LA website. Or get our local copy.
We are of course recognized by A2LA. NVLAP organizes their own proficiency tests, so if you are NVLAP accredited, you are probably not looking for 3rd party proficiency testing. Since we have become accredited LAB also recognizes our tests as a way to satisfy their proficiency testing requirements. In fact, we are not aware of any calibration laboratory accrediting body in the US with proficiency testing requirements that does not recognize our tests.
I presented the paper "Can Proficiency Testing Add Value" at the NCSL-I conference in San Diego in August 2002. There are no prizes for guessing what my conclusion is.
We have also started to accept credit cards for payments for proficiency tests.
To view and print the confidentiality agreement as well as our reports, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5 or higher. You can download it free of charge from Adobe by clicking on the link to the right. |
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Welcome,
Dr. Henrik S. Nielsen
