Accreditation

Accreditation Services

Accreditation Activity
Accreditation process
Scope of accreditation
Traceability
ISO Services
ISO 9001:2015
ISO 14001:2015
ISO 45001:2018
ISO 13485:2016
CE Marking
HALAL
ISO 16949
ISO 22000
ISO 28001
SA 8000
HACCP

Traceability

Many of us in the scientific and technological arenas are measurement middlemen taking measurements provided by others, and making measurements for others. This discussion is intended to explore traceability and the value of accreditation in the context of the rapidly changing global marketplace of measurements and measurement services:* Measurement users and measurement makers need first to find out how accurate their measurements must be, that is, how much uncertainty they can tolerate in their measurements.* Requiring measurements to be traceable using the current international definition of traceability can provide assurance that measurements meet accuracy needs.* Because the task of determining whether measurements are traceable can be somewhat formidable and time consuming, there is enormous value added by requiring accreditation of measurement providers.

I see Certification in context mostly as where one company 'certifies' another or where a company 'certifies' a product or other output where the 'certification' is their statement (promise) that something complies with something. When I think of certification I also think of a C of C which used to just be a statement of compliance/conformance (everyone asks for data now...). I see Accrediation in context of 'An Accreditation Board', whether for colleges or other businesses (there are 5 entries for ACCREDIT in my dictionary). The general thrust is 'To give credit or authority to' and 'to confer credit or authority on'.

ISO 17034:2016 (formerly ISO Guide 34) Accredited Certified Reference Material (CRM) Producer

At the current time, Accreditation that is INTERNATIONALLY recognized through Memorandae of Agreement for ISO/IEC Guide 25 is accomplished in the United States by having either A2LA or NVLAP perform your Accreditation. If the sole intent of your recognition is to meet the requirements of QS9000 3rd Edition, then you have the option of using LAB. This is a group of QS9000 registrars currently "recognized" by some members of the AIAG as capable of issuing a statement of ISO/IEC Guide 25 Compliance. As the discussions on this list have indicated in the past, LAB may at some future time become recognized internationally through MOAs.

The registrar shall inform its supplier client that theirs is a quality system registration which is not the same as accreditation by a recognized laboratory accreditor. The registrar shall also inform its supplier client that quality system registration to ISO 9001 or 9002 is not equivalent to a laboratory accreditation to ISO/IEC Guide 25. Finally, the registration certificate shall not reference ISO/IEC.