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Assessing competence in key laboratory skills

A set of resources to assist with training and assessing competence in key practical skills.

To ensure that results of measurements are fit for purpose, there are some basic technical skills that an analyst needs to possess no matter what type of analysis is being carried out. Each section of this resource covers an important aspect of working in the laboratory and summarises the key information that analysts should be aware of. The sections also contain some handy tips and suggestions of practical tests that will enable the competence of trainees to be assessed.

The resources covers the following aspects of working in a laboratory. Follow the links to access the material.

• Introduction to the resource
• General aspects of working in a laboratory
• Recording, manipulating and reporting data
• Weighing
• Pipetting
• Preparing reagents
• Preparing solutions of known concentration
• Titrations
• pH measurements
• UV measurements on single substances and binary mixtures