Framework overlap

Does ISO 15189:2022 cover ISO/IEC 17025:2017?

You hold ISO 15189:2022 and have been told to do ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

74% of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 you already have

ISO 15189:2022 already covers about 74% of ISO/IEC 17025:2017, leaving 23 of 87 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 15 Likely covered 49 New work 23

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 15189:2022 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

17025-4.1
Impartiality
17025-5
Structural Requirements
17025-7.3
Sampling
17025-7.9
Complaints
17025-8.7
Corrective Action
27006-5.1
General Requirements for Certification Bodies
27006-5.2
Management of Impartiality
27006-6.1
Competence of personnel
27006-6.2
Personnel Records
ISO-15189-4.1
Impartiality
ISO-15189-6.6
Reagents and consumables
ISO-15189-7.2
Pre-examination processes
ISO-15189-7.3
Examination processes
ISO-15189-7.7
Complaints
ISO-15189-8.5
Actions addressing risks and opportunities
ISO-15189-8.7
Nonconformities and corrective actions
ISO-15189-8.8
Evaluations
ISO-17025-4.1
Impartiality
ISO-17025-5.2
Management structure
ISO-17025-5.3
Range of laboratory activities
ISO-17025-5.5
Independence of quality functions
ISO-17025-7.3
Sampling
ISO-17025-7.9
Complaints
Show the 64 you already have
17025-4.2
Confidentiality
ISO-15189-4.2
Confidentiality
ISO-15189-6.3
Facilities and environmental conditions
ISO-15189-6.5
Equipment calibration and metrological traceability
ISO-15189-6.7
Service agreements
ISO-15189-6.8
Externally provided products and services
ISO-15189-7.4
Post-examination processes
ISO-15189-8.1
General requirements
ISO-15189-8.4
Control of records
ISO-17025-4.2
Confidentiality
ISO-17025-5.1
Legal entity
ISO-17025-5.4
Personnel for the management system
ISO-17025-6.5
Metrological traceability
ISO-17025-8.1
Options
ISO-17025-8.7
Corrective actions
17025-6.2
Personnel
17025-6.3
Facilities and Environmental Conditions
17025-6.4
Equipment
17025-6.5
Metrological Traceability
17025-6.6
Externally Provided Products and Services
17025-7.1
Review of Requests, Tenders, Contracts
17025-7.10
Nonconforming Work
17025-7.11
Control of Data and Information Management
17025-7.2
Selection, Verification, Validation of Methods
17025-7.4
Handling of Test and Calibration Items
17025-7.5
Technical Records
17025-7.6
Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty
17025-7.7
Ensuring Validity of Results
17025-7.8
Reporting of Results
17025-8.2
Management System Documentation
17025-8.5
Actions to Address Risks and Opportunities
17025-8.6
Improvement
17025-8.8
Internal Audits
17025-8.9
Management Reviews
ISO-15189-4.3
Requirements regarding patients
ISO-15189-6.2
Personnel
ISO-15189-6.4
Equipment
ISO-15189-7.5
Nonconforming work
ISO-15189-7.6
Data and information management
ISO-15189-7.8
Continuity and emergency preparedness
ISO-15189-8.2
Management system documentation
ISO-15189-8.3
Control of documents
ISO-15189-8.6
Improvement
ISO-15189-8.9
Management reviews
ISO-17025-6.2
Personnel
ISO-17025-6.3
Facilities and environmental conditions
ISO-17025-6.4
Equipment
ISO-17025-6.6
Externally provided products and services
ISO-17025-7.1
Review of requests, tenders and contracts
ISO-17025-7.10
Nonconforming work
ISO-17025-7.11
Control of data and information management
ISO-17025-7.2
Selection, verification and validation of methods
ISO-17025-7.4
Handling of test or calibration items
ISO-17025-7.5
Technical records
ISO-17025-7.6
Evaluation of measurement uncertainty
ISO-17025-7.7
Ensuring the validity of results
ISO-17025-7.8
Reporting of results
ISO-17025-8.2
Management system documentation
ISO-17025-8.3
Control of management system documents
ISO-17025-8.4
Control of records
ISO-17025-8.5
Actions to address risks and opportunities
ISO-17025-8.6
Improvement
ISO-17025-8.8
Internal audits
ISO-17025-8.9
Management reviews

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 15189:2022 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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