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Your calibration spreadsheet won't survive a UKAS audit

CalProof is calibration management for UK laboratories holding ISO/IEC 17025 / UKAS accreditation. Equipment register, certificate store with SHA-256 tamper-evidence, out-of-tolerance workflow, an immutable audit log, and an audit pack that survives a surveillance visit.

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Built by Crocker Digital Ltd, a UK-registered company (Co. No. 17008789).

What surveillance assessors check — and where CalProof helps

Equipment register

Each instrument carries type, manufacturer, serial, location, tolerance specification, calibration provider and interval. Use the location and tolerance fields to encode scope-relevant groupings; the audit pack PDF lists the full register for the assessor.

Calibration intervals

Per-instrument intervals with documented justification. Automated reminders email the responsible signatory ahead of due dates.

Certificate store & traceability evidence

Every certificate you receive is stored against its instrument with a SHA-256 hash recorded at upload as tamper-evidence of the exact file. The certificate itself names the calibrating lab and its accreditation — CalProof keeps that evidence together and auditable.

Certificate content (§7.8)

The free /tools/calibration-certificate-completeness-checker/ is a manual checklist to review incoming certificates against §7.8.2.1 + §7.8.4.1(a)/(b)/(c)/(d) before they land on the instrument record.

Out-of-tolerance investigation

Affected period, disposition decision, recalibration scheduling — all captured against the calibration record and reproducible in the audit log.

Audit log immutability

Audit-log writes are immutable at the database level (UPDATE and DELETE denied for everyone, including admins). Retained for seven years.

Public free tools that may be useful day-to-day

Frequently asked questions

How does CalProof support a UKAS surveillance visit?
CalProof generates an audit pack PDF that contains the equipment register, per-instrument detail with calibration history, certificate references (filename, SHA-256, 7-day signed URL), out-of-tolerance disposition records, an audit-log excerpt, and a method-statement / sign-off page. The pack is generated from your live calibration records — what your assessor sees is exactly what you operate against, with no separate report-only copy that can drift out of date.
Does CalProof replace UKAS-accredited calibration?
No. CalProof does not issue calibration certificates and is not an accredited calibration laboratory. It is the management system around the calibrations your laboratory performs (or commissions): the equipment register, the certificate store, the OOT workflow, the audit log, the report generation. Your scope of accreditation, your CMC, and your validated procedures stay in your own quality system.
How does CalProof handle measurement uncertainty?
Each calibration record has an optional uncertainty field where you record the uncertainty stated on the certificate you received (for example "±0.05% rdg, k=2"). CalProof stores what your provider reported and keeps it with the calibration and its certificate — it does not calculate or propagate an uncertainty budget; your validated budgets and procedures stay in your own quality system. The free measurement-uncertainty calculator on /tools/ lets you compose Type A + Type B contributions in line with JCGM 100 (GUM) and UKAS M3003 as a working aid, not a substitute for that budget.
How does CalProof handle traceability?
CalProof keeps every certificate you receive from your accredited providers stored against the instrument it belongs to, with a SHA-256 hash recorded at upload as tamper-evidence of the exact file. Your traceability evidence is those certificates — each names the calibrating laboratory and its accreditation, chaining back to national standards through your supplier (NPL via UKAS, etc.). CalProof keeps them together and auditable; it does not itself assert or compute the traceability chain.
What is the ISO/IEC 17025 §7.8 certificate completeness checker?
A free public tool that scores any calibration certificate against twelve content requirements drawn from ISO/IEC 17025:2017 §7.8 — eight from §7.8.2.1 (the common report elements), plus the calibration-specific items of §7.8.4.1(a)/(b)/(c)/(d) and the supporting §7.6, §6.3 and §6.5 clauses. Use it during incoming inspection to spot a non-compliant certificate before it lands in your equipment register, or during sub-contractor selection to compare suppliers. See /tools/calibration-certificate-completeness-checker/.

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14-day trial. No card required. Import your equipment register from CSV and have the audit pack generated by lunchtime.

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